Day 1
Tuesday May 15, 2012
Cincinnati, OH
7am EST – I pick up A1 at his brother’s house and we go to U-Haul to get the truck.
8am – We park in front of 111 Calhoun Street and begin loading the truck. By 10am we are back at U-Haul where they attach trailer to the truck and I pull my car up on the trailer. After U-Haul reps secure the car on the trailer, we are ready to hit the road.
[It is here where a U-Haul rep, instructing me how to pull my car up on the trailer, made a remark that A1 and I later realized was a poignant Zen statement: “You’ll feel a bump. Then just let it roll.”]
11am – We take 75 South into Northern Kentucky where we switch to 71 South. From there our route took us on 65 South to Nashville then 40 West to Memphis.
(A1 at the wheel with Nashville skyline in the background.)9pm CST – Arrive at Motel 6 in Brinkley, AR.Doped up & docile in the truck all day, my cat Waylon islet loose in the hotel room where he seems happy as a clam, prowling aroundinvestigating the room’s parameters, jumping from bed to bed, eating, drinkingwater, using the litter box like normal, and ultimately crashing out on one ofthe beds. Cat owners know that it is impossible to tell how a cat will react tobeing taken out of its comfort zone. On this first night of the journey I was particularlyconcerned about Waylon. I needn’t have worried. He was totally chill on thisfirst night and indeed throughout the 4 days on the road he was extremely well-behaved,never once hissing, scratching, biting, peeing, spraying or even crying. He wasa lion-hearted trooper every mile of the trip and totally exempt from all thetravel anxieties that haunted me on the road.Day 1 mileage: 553 miles
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