Dickson, TN

Me and my dad wanted to try to leave around lunch time on Saturday, July 25th to begin our journey across country...we left around 5:00pm (dinner time). HAHA. It wasn't bad though - it just took a LONG time to finish packing the remaining belongings and load the car. You should have seen my Xterra...PACKED! To the top of the roof, from the second seat to the very back of the car. We even had to put to bags in the rack up on top of my roof because we didn't have any more room in the car. I should have taken a picture but alas I did not, but I'm sure you can just imagine what it looked like.

Anyways, we left around 5:00pm (VA time). We wanted to drive as much as we could and we were feeling ok so we ended up driving about 9 hours until we stopped for the night. We got a hotel in Dickson, TN - which is in between Nashville and Memphis - at around 1:00am (Dickson time) but to my body which was still an ahead it felt like 2:00am.

We saw some great sights along the way. I got to see Nashville at night, all lit up. It was beautiful. I never got that good of a picture though because it was dark when we passed. I drove most of the way so I missed taking some pictures too. One thing I thought was so neat but never got a picture of was "Music Highway". We drove I-40 and there were signs that said Music Highway with music notes on it. It was so cool. Music Highway was from Nashville to Memphis on I-40. Makes sense though, right? Something else I missed taking a picture of was a sign that announced "Welcome to Carlisle" - a town in Tennessee. I thought my sisters and fellow Twilight fans would enjoy it - but I wasn't able to get it.

All in all, it was a good first day - or should I say night?