August 2, 2010 - Day 1
On
the first day of our trip we reached Paducah, KY. We left our
home in middle Georgia at 8:45, stopped twice for gas and a rest stop
and ate lunch in Atlanta at 11:35. Kentucky fried chicken,
Mmmm-mmmm, good!
A lady there asked me if I was a minister. I told her, "No. In our church we have a lay ministry so we're all ministers." She told me if I wasn't a minister I would be some day and refered me to Jer. 1:5. I assume by that she means we were all ordained ministers before we were born. Not sure. Hmm. I'm pretty sure that scripture means something else.
Here's a closer look...
We crossed into Tennessee, then back into Georgia, then into Tennessee again...
(I guess you can tell the route kind of winds around at this point)
Here's what the mountain looks like from across the river. As it winds through Tennessee and Alabama, the river is large and has dams all along it's length. It's a strange river that flows into the Gulf of Mexico twice. The federally built Tenn-Tom Waterway leads from the center of the Tennessee to the Tombigbee which flows into the Alabama which flows into Mobile Bay which flows into the Gulf of Mexico. The west end of the river flows into the Ohio which flows into the Mississippi which flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Weird, huh?
We saw this train trestle crossing I-24 in east Tennessee.
Then we entered Kentucky.
Finally, we crossed the Tennessee River before reaching Paducah where we spent the night.
Linda went to bed at 9:15 PM
local time. Of course this was 10:15 on the clock back
home. She was pooped. But you know me. I had to stay
up and finish creating this "Day 1" web page before retiring.
We'll get an early start again tomorrow.
A lady there asked me if I was a minister. I told her, "No. In our church we have a lay ministry so we're all ministers." She told me if I wasn't a minister I would be some day and refered me to Jer. 1:5. I assume by that she means we were all ordained ministers before we were born. Not sure. Hmm. I'm pretty sure that scripture means something else.
Where
we live is rather flat but north Georgia has some nice little mountains
all covered in green.
Here's a closer look...
We crossed into Tennessee, then back into Georgia, then into Tennessee again...
(I guess you can tell the route kind of winds around at this point)
We
reached Chattanooga 240 miles from home for our first indication we
were near Lookout Mountain and the Tennessee River.
Here's what the mountain looks like from across the river. As it winds through Tennessee and Alabama, the river is large and has dams all along it's length. It's a strange river that flows into the Gulf of Mexico twice. The federally built Tenn-Tom Waterway leads from the center of the Tennessee to the Tombigbee which flows into the Alabama which flows into Mobile Bay which flows into the Gulf of Mexico. The west end of the river flows into the Ohio which flows into the Mississippi which flows into the Gulf of Mexico. Weird, huh?
We saw this train trestle crossing I-24 in east Tennessee.
Then we entered Kentucky.
Finally, we crossed the Tennessee River before reaching Paducah where we spent the night.