Epic Fiasco day

It is a fine line between adventure and misadventure. One problem with roadtripping in a Hyundai Accent is that finding anything becomes a major chore, even when the car is well organized, and if the car is a mess, it becomes a fiasco.

Somewhere an hour and a half after leaving this mornings camp, we realized a set of keys and a cell phone were missing. So we stopped, called the campground, and asked them to look around (they found nothing), while we searched the car, to no avail. So we found a Verizon store (literally across the street) and had the phone deactivated. We then continued, and stopped once more at a rest area, and did some more detailed searching, and found the keys, and kept driving.

By this point, we were about 3 hours behind schedule, so we stopped at an exit and crashed at a hotel, and after emptying the car of every item, we found the cell phone, which now needs to be charged and reactivated.

To celebrate our first full blown "fiasco day" and the happy resolution thereof, we made the best of our altered plans, and explored the town of greeneville TN, which was the home of Andrew Johnson, who is best remembered for being the only president other than Bill Clinton to be impeached. If you need to fall asleep quickly tonight, you can take the same cell phone guided tour at 423 278 5555.

Tomorrow we will hike and camp in the Great Smokey Mountains, our last day of low mileage before our sprint west to the Grand Canyon area. The good news is that we are only an hour away, so we can get an early start, find a site, and spend the rest of the day exploring.