Mississippi to Tennessee

After taking a year off from traveling together, the Brown's and Anderson's finally got their acts together and planned a 2018 trip! This year's travel adventure destination is Washington D.C. We all got to put in our POI's (points of interest) for consideration in the itinerary and it was Patti's job to figure out all the logistics. Laurie's job was to plan everything outside of DC, such as side trips on our way to and from DC.
Steve and Patti got Gin Creek Farm animals all taken care of for the week and drove from Mississippi to TN, arriving in Columbia as Laurie was returning from dropping Bailey off at Owl Hollow Kennels. 
We discussed our itinerary for travel over dinner and what time we would hit the road in the morning. We had a long day of travel ahead of us for Saturday and our destination was Skyland Lodge in Shenandoah National Park. Knowing that Skyline Drive in the park is only 35mph and about 300 miles long, we decided to look at the map and do a little re-routing to save some time. Cutting off a good portion of Skyline Drive and picking it up further north would get us to our destination much earlier, keeping us all sane.

We also checked DC weather and knew that there might need to be some changes to our plans on Tuesday and Wednesday, due to predictions of rain.
Another area of concern was what vehicle to drive - Scott's full-size truck or Steve's smaller truck. Do we sacrifice comfort and room for something easier to park? Parking at the AirBnB Row House looked like it was going to be an issue, since there is only street parking, or parking in out back, where we were told only small vehicles fit. Parking in the street is an issue for Monday and Tuesday due to street sweepers and if you don't move your vehicle, you get ticketed. After much discussion we decided that driving Scott's truck with more room and comfort was the better choice and we would figure out the parking situation after we got to DC and could really assess the situation. With that, we all decided it was time to get to bed for an early start on Saturday.