Yes, the long-awaited “two bus” trip is tomorrow. I have everything washed and packed and am completely ready to go other than packing my cosmetic bag and meds in the morning. My outfit is even ironed and laying there ready to put on. I plan to be at work at 7:00 a.m. Some people will probably beat me there, even though we don’t leave until 8:00.

We couldn’t find our “Next Exit” book and I’ve been going crazy trying to find it. Finally, as a last ditch effort I thought to look in the car. Who’d have thought? Anyway, there it was, right with the atlas, which is probably the most logical place. So I used it to plan places to eat. I also went on Google maps and zoomed in really close to see how close together the places named in “Next Exit” actually were. Amazing what you can do with the internet.

A couple had to cancel out yesterday and I never did find a replacement, so I’m going to put the opportunity out there for anyone from the trip who cares about them to contribute something toward their lost money (which was $1238). Everyone is getting $10 back from me, so I’m hoping a really lot of them will toss that $10 in. Even if only 75% do, that would be $750. I’d like to be able to refund them about $1000, but the travel account can only do about $250. Plus I’d rather not start refunding money because then we’d have to do it for everyone who has to cancel at the last minute. But I feel particularly bad because I told them we had a waiting list, which we did, and should be able to easily find someone, which it turns out we weren’t.  Unfortunately most of the people that were on the list didn’t leave the week free, just in case. Next year I’ll keep in contact with those on the list, reminding at least the top people to keep the week free if at all possible!

Tomorrow we drive through to Indianapolis. Then on to Pigeon Forge on Monday. We start home on Friday, staying overnight in the same place we are staying on the way down. We should make it home Saturday just past the supper hour.

I’ll have pictures!