By Alison Hawke in Personal — Dec 1, 2003

Road Trip Thanksgiving

We went to Hampton Virginia for Thanksgiving, and it was a great road trip. Wonderful hospitality, lovely people, excellent food. Lessons learned:

Beef jerky is an acceptable food substance.
It is 890 miles from home to Hampton VA.
Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and West Virginia combined have less police out on the road than the state of Virginia.
There is no lethal dose for seafood.
Missouri has no mountains. West Virginia has mountains, Missouri has a couple of small hills.
It can be warm in one state, and there can be snow on the ground in the next state, and the state after that can be warm again.
Time zones really mess up your travel time estimates.
You have up to two gallons of fuel left when the low fuel light comes on.
It takes more time to go out then to come back.
It's good to be home.