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April 29, 2006
Relo: Day 1
10:45 (mile 0) We hit the road. I'm becoming quite skilled at driving while crying. Katie immediately falls asleep. Jamie talks for literally 45 minutes straight.
12:00 (mile 100) Jamie has to pee, so we stop at BK for lunch. We go before we eat, then after Jamie says she has to poop. She doesn't.
1:00 Back on the road.
1:35 (mile 140) Jamie says she has to pee again. I ask her to hold it.
1:50 (mile 157) Katie is so bored she's already eating her toes. Jamie tells me she still needs the potty.
2:18 (mile 187) Jamie tells me every now and then that she still needs to potty, so I stop and she goes on her potty on the side of the road. She really did have to go!
(mile 288) We stop for gas and munchies, but mostly to give the kids a break. I stop at an exit that has just one gas station, and the grassy patch there is coated with trash. We sit on a small patch of recently poured cement that looks clean except for a couple pieces of gum.
4:30 Back on the road.
5:20 (mile 355) I've been passing crackers back to Katie through Jamie. I have no idea what she's doing with them, but they keep disappearing. She screams for a little while, then falls asleep.
5:40 (mile 374) Jamie succumbs to sleep. Ahhh, peace.
6:00 (mile 401) We enter Tennessee.
6:14 (mile 416) We pass our first Sonic!
7:00 (mile 480) Katie wakes, screams, goes back to sleep, repeat. I start looking for a hotel. I have no cell signal, so I can't reach Rex to tell him where I'm stopping.
7:40 (mile 520) I can't take the screaming anymore. I pull into a Motel 6 and use their phone to try to get Rex. The best I can do is a vm on his work phone, and hope he checks it.
8:15 I'm nursing Katie. There's a knock at the door. Thank god, Rex got the vm!
Posted by me at April 29, 2006 9:50 PM