THIS is how.

3/20 We drove up thru Indiana to Crown Point, IN to celebrate at a baby shower for our dear old college friends, Christina & Jake (yep, we hooked em up so we could all hang out together). MuahahaMuahahaha. But they are expecting their 1st baby and we wouldn't have missed it for the world - even - even when we were coming from 70 degree sunshine to 40 degrees + ice falling from the sky unpon arrival. 3/21 We drove back down through the state to Southern IN so I could work Monday and Tuesday. Lucky me. By the way -- I am positively FASCINATED with the wind mills along 65 in Indiana.
3/23 After work, hubby & I hit the road, taking the long way from Louisville to South Carolina because a rockslide from OCTOBER 2009 is still being cleaned up. Nutzo.

Turns out though, we like taking the longer route.
HOW can this be!? You ask...well, we saw lots of entertaining things along the way. Included in this list is the city of Chattanooga, TN which I definitely want to pass thru again sometime. I also enjoyed the markers along the road which pointed obviously to which states we were in. Here are some examples of how we pinpointed our location along the road:

Kentucky
Hills & Horses (well, duh.)
Dinosaur World !!!!!!!!!!!
Jim Beam & Bourbon Trail signs.
A billboard proclaiming HELL IS REAL just across from the Adult Depot.

Tennessee
Jack Daniel's Distillery Signs
Fireworks + Deli
Hee Haw Fireworks, Big Daddy's Fireworks, TN/Alabama Fireworks, Big Zack's, Big Steve's, Sad Sam's, and Battle Creek Fireworks/Chevron Station. (*Who EVER thought that combining the sell of explosives and gasoline would be a good idea?)
Bar-B-Cutie's
Pappy's bbq, Sugar's bbq, Smokey's bbq, etc.
Nashville :)
Appalachian Foothills

Georgia
Atlanta (eh...)
11 Cops on highway patrol per 80miles of highway...we actually counted 11 police cars either pulling people over or clocking speeds within about an hour.

South Carolina
Red dirt
Pretty trees along highways
Signs for Greenville
Tiger paws begin appearing on more and more (and more) vehicles along the way.
Clemson University

3/27 We had waffles (Matt's Dad makes a fantastic waffle) and drove home with a quick stop outside of Nashville for lunch with step-bro Randy. All in all, a really good mini vacation. OH and the Indiana State markers (for us coming up from the South) would be the river...the Kennedy Bridge signaling that within 20 minutes we would be turning off the engine and opening our big blue front door to see our loyal cats awaiting our return. It totally happened that way too....Caesar rushed to our feet like a faithful old dog (even tho he is actually a rather large cat).