Awful Nashville Traffic Still Doesn’t Ruin Today’s Drive

Today's Journey Our Route Today (click on image for a larger version in a new Tab or Window) We didn't make it as far as I wanted to yesterday, but the Dodge City, Alabama Petro was a good place to stop for the night. We'll continue north on Interstate Highway 65 through Alabama, Tennessee (where we'll run into some heavy traffic and a crazy detour) and Kentucky. The video ends as we're crossing the JFK Memorial Bridge over … [Read more...]

Driving the Back Roads of Southwestern Alabama

Today's Journey Route to Shipper (click on image for a larger version in a new Tab or Window) We're spending over 90% of the day in rural southwestern Alabama. We're headed to a paper mill near Perdue Hill, Alabama for a load of pulp wood that needs to get to Green Bay, Wisconsin. After getting loaded, I'll show you a different type of scale procedure that we sometimes have to do. Once we leave the shipper, we've got … [Read more...]

780 Miles to Pensacola, Florida; 2 Days to Get There

We're starting our day at the Flying J Travel Center in Jeffersonville, Ohio, but as usual, I forgot where I am in the morning. Today's drive is pretty uneventful with nice weather all day. We'll cruise through Cincinatti and across the Ohio river into Kentucky. We'll skirt Louisville on the I-265 bypass to connect with I-65 south of Louisville. We do run into some heavy traffic in and around Nashville, as always. Cities and Towns … [Read more...]