We woke around 7:15am (12:15pm GMT) when Susan (Sarah's mum) called the motel room to have a chat. Sarah was pleased to hear from her mum seeing as they've mainly been emailing since we've been away!
We fell back to sleep afterward, but woke around 8:45am remembering that we have a free "continental breakfast" which ends at 9:00! We got dressed quickly, and ran to the lobby to chow down. Now, I'm not going to down-talk the free continental breakfasts, because we need food, and anything free is massive bonus - but this wasn't that great. You were allowed one item per person, so I chose a coffee and Sarah had a bowl of cereal. I'm pretty sure that the cereal had been sat in it's dispenser for about 5 months based on the facts that this motel is in the middle of nowhere, and it was empty. That being said, we did manage to catch a glimpse of Roger over the road in the garage.
If anyone cares, you can see where we stayed on Google Street View, and if you rotate the image, you can see just how close the garage really was! NOTE TO IMPATIENT PEOPLE: Give the map time to fully load, and you'll see the actual place we're at, not just a map, you can move/rotate the image too. We were in the room with the door fourth from the left, on the bottom. You can also see "Alan's Tow Truck" which is the same truck that picked us up. Funny how he took us to the place he BLOODY WORKS AT THE SKANK!Roger was still hanging up in the air from where they left him yesterday, so we knew he wasn't ready then. We watched TV and packed our stuff up just before the checkout time of 11am, but as the girl over at the garage said "Come over before you check out and see if the van's ready, if not we'll ring the motel and get them to extend your checkout time for you.". So, we popped over there to be told that (and I really wasn't that surprised) "The parts the mechanics ordered were wrong so they're getting different ones in later, it'll be ready around 1pm.". She did ring the motel for us and they said that we can stay in the room until the cleaner comes to do our room - after that we could sit in the lobby.
That was fine with us, so we went back to the motel. 11:01am and the cleaner knocks on the door. I had a feeling that would happen somehow. So we grabbed our bags and relocated to the lobby where we set up the laptop and sat around for nearly 2 hours. When the people running the motel started to eat their lunch in the lobby, we decided to go and get something cheap to eat from the petrol station across the road, with bags.
After chatting once again about the cricket to the Indians (real Indians from India, not native Indians) that run the petrol station, we left with our lunch:
- 1 x packet of salt and vinegar pork scratchings (not that great)
- 1 x packet of sour cream crisps (nice)
- 1 x bottle of water (it's water...)
We arrived, and it's very surprisingly very, very nice. Probably one of the best places we've stayed! This town (although it's dark now) looks much like Asheville in North Carolina. We can see the skyline composed of thick forests growing over mountains. I have to say, as low as we were yesterday, we're much happier now - and America really does have a lot of amazing scenery to offer - something we didn't expect as much as we're seeing.
When we checked in, the (Indian [they must get everywhere]) lady told us that we'd have to pay $40, plus tax, for a double room as the only single room she had left was a smoking room. Now, I do smoke, but smoking rooms really stink and even make me feel ill in the morning. We said that it'd be ok and we'll take the smoking room for the $30 price. That was fine, and we went to our room. It doesn't smell anything half as bad as previous smoking rooms we've checked into! It's also quite spacious, has a fridge-freezer, microwave, ironing board (not that we'll use it), coffee, a sofa, coffee table and even a basic dining table! Most of these things are extras that you pay for!
After receiving a quick phone call from the front desk lady to check that the room was cool with us (to which we replied "Yes! It's lovely!" in a very ecstatic manner) Sarah noticed that we didn't have a coffee maker. We rang the lady back and she said she'd have a look around and call us back in a mojo. A few minutes later she rang back and told us that she has one for us to use if we could go get it from the lobby. I went and got it, which is where I learned that it was actually her coffee maker for her to use tonight, but we could have it AND she also gave us an "Outdoor Adventure Pack" which she said "It's a gift, you can have it" :).
I whisked myself back to the room with coffee maker and gift, eagerly wanting to open it to see what's inside. Sarah put the coffee on and I opened the gift to find:
- A tube of toothpaste
- Some Halls Soothers
- Some Aspirin
- A heat pack for your back pains
- Three Tampons
- A health bar snack thing (nuts and raisins)
So that's where we're at for the moment. We're 24.4 miles away from Elkton, Kentucky which is where we should hopefully rendezvous with Sarah's uncle. Roger has been making some "popping" noises every time we remove our foot from the accelerator, but it's not the same as the horrific noise of the drive shaft trying to escape. We've also passed through a time zone, so we're now on Central Time, that's GMT -6.
Missing everyone lots!
Lots of love!
A happier, Ed & Sarah :)
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