Instead of leaving at 11:00am or noon like we usually would, we took off at about 3:30pm in order make more of Lillian’s sleep time coincide with the trip. Before we left we packed everything up and I was albe to get some Skyline Chili in as a goodby lunch. We have planned to leave at about 3:00pm and I think we did a good job only being 30 minutes later.

The trip out of Ohio was fairly uneventful and Lillian didn’t even really get cranky until we were 30 miles outside of New Stanton - and that’s only because she was hungry. We stopped at the same Days Inn we stayed at 6 days before and fed er in the parking lot. She needed a change so we went next door to the New Stanton McDonalds which was covered with NASCAR memorabilia. Inside a man and is wife were dining and asked if Lillian was going to be ok after seeing her DOCBand. I assured him that she was just fine.

There was a new roadside attraction in New Stanton that I HAD to stop at. In May 2005 a tepee was erected and a barbecue grill was put inside and Tepee Tim’s BarBQ was born. As we passed by I wondered if it was open and the smoke coming out of the top of the tepee assured me that it was open. We stopped in and we were greeted by who I assume was Tim himself. I checked out the menu and ordered up a Carolina Barbecue sandwich. I initially ordered it to go, but upon seeing how huge it was I decided to eat it there. Tim treated us to a couple pieces of his own recipe cornbread and suddenly I didn’t have to worry about dinner anymore.

We ended up stopping a couple of other times - once in Somerset and once 2 or 3 hours later at 11:00pm. I looked at the hotel reservation board and saw that King of Prussia was 37 miles away meaning that wer were about 2 1/2 hours away from home. I was itching to get there and I knew that we just a hundred or so miles away. The rest of the trip went fairly smoothly and at 1:15am or so we made it home. We survived and we’ll be doing it again 2 more times for Thanskgiving and Christmas.