TURKEY travels: Road-trip preparation

Ah, it's that time of year again for TURKEY!  I haven't been this excited about Thanksgiving in a very long time.  The main issue now, though, is finding enough time to visit everyone!  I will be splitting time between Mom's, Dad's, the brothers/nieces/nephew, friends from home, friends from Lexington, and my beloved former co-workers!  I am going to do my best though, to not "party" too hard, drink lots of coffee, and pack in the quality time with EVERYONE!  I will begin the 12+ hour journey on the most traveled day of the year here in a few hours, drive to Knoxville, TN and stay with my best friend in the whole wide world, Shellee, hit up some MORE quality time with my girl, and then continue on tomorrow morning.  I wish I could hit the road a little sooner, but there's no way I can not attend my Anatomy/Physiology class and lab this afternoon, so my plan is to have the dogs hang in the car while I'm in class (they love it in there!) and leave straight from class.  I realize I'll be traveling through some pretty serious rush-hour traffic, but I don't want to postpone the trip longer than I already have.  I do need to run to radio-shack and get an FM transmitter for my ipod - can't go without that on a looong road-trip, and my other one went ka-put during my last 12-hour haul to the Low Country.  

Dare I explain the amount of preparation it takes for me, a SWF + 2 dogs, to get ready for this trip?!  My goodness!  Between schoolwork, laptops, techie gadgets I shan't do without, dress clothes for turkey day at grandpa's, it's fair to say my packing preparation was more on the ridiculous side.  I should probably get the pups good 'n' tired before we depart; we'll go a good 4 hours before making any pit-stop.  First stop will probably be right before the mountains.  The dogs will take turns lying in the front seat and floorboard of my car, Wendy likely in a consistent slumber, while Carly will trudge through her ADD moments with chew toys, rawhides, and her head out the window.  Oh joy.  ;)

Anyhow, I'll be sure to post pictures of this glorious weekend.  I've already planned on seeing some of the regular Vtowners at Creekdump (Creekside Bar and Grille), CrustyChristy Albers :) somewhere up north, obviously the fam in Troy and Vtown, Christine-Machine MillerTime in the 'Ville (Louisville), and Myra Allison (Allinator) in either Lex or the 'Ville, hopefully most or all of the Rupp & Associates crew in Lex, and perhaps some of the fellas I used to play basketball with in Lex.  Exciting!!  Busy!!  Can't wait!!

Don't worry, Parents.  I will be placing a little note on my dashboard telling me to SLOW DOWN, since I have a tendency to never really follow the speed limit.  "Safety first."

Alright - those of you who are reading this that I will be seeing very soon:  I am clearly very, very excited to get home and give ya'll a big, long-past-due hug.  I imagine there'll be a considerable amount of "bier trinkend" this weekend too, as they say in Deutsch!

I'll try and do a little photo-op here and there throughout the drive.  More to come later on the three T's:  Thanksgiving weekend, Turkey, and Tryptophan!

Until next time....