Momma and I left yesterday morning on our trip through the midwest. Nashville wasn't too bad, traffic light, although I will never, ever figure out how to navigate the various interstate changes there. I've must've driven through one hundred times and still end up flummoxed. How did I ever survive without Mandy?
Mandy is my GPS. She's named after an article in the Washington Post from 2007. Go ahead, look it up.
We headed out toward Lexington, because my longtime internet friend JMT lives in Danville and after over ten years of online friendship, we'd never met in person. It was time to fix that. Mandy gives good directions, although she got confused in the areas where the cows outnumber the people. Well, cows, horses, and llamas.
(Trivia aside: Apparently coyotes are scared of llamas. Take that, natural selection!)
The bluegrass is very pretty and there are some astounding mansions which were probably built using horse money. Danville is a personable town - reminded me a lot of Paducah. JMT is even better!
OK. I was walking back to my car to get my phone, when I fell off a curb and landed pretty much on my right elbow and my knees. For I am a graceful ballerina. It hurt like hell, and took me about two minutes to even consider lifting my body off the pavement. During this time, Momma and JMT were kind to me and didn't laugh or anything. Finally we made it into the restaurant where I wasn't sure that I wasn't going to be sick. (Shock affects me that way.) JMT was gracious about me clearly not feeling too hot, and instead of asking over and over whether I was OK, he just ignored it and talked with Momma. I really appreciated that as I hate having any sort of weakness pointed out to me, even out of concern.
He got Momma an awesome antique book and bought us lunch, and off we headed to Cincinnati.
Cincinnati wasn't too exciting, but the pain pills, really, really good cable TV offerings, and clean bathroom were just what I needed.
Now we're in Cleveland and I'll tell you more about it tomorrow.
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