SWFEx Day One - The Great Southern Trek
Greetings from our room at Best Western in Conway, Arkansas! We've arrived here traveling 666 miles for 14 hours on I-40. Okay, so I ran into a major problem with my Dell laptop and I'm having to type up this post through my phone so I can't promise everything will go smoothly. Anyway, I'll sum up what we have done so far since leaving Asheville earlier this morning.
At roughly 8:20 EDT this morning, we cramped all 12 of us into this large white van and headed west. The drive through Great Smoky Mountains was absolutely gorgeous to start the trip with a nice valley fog blanketing sections of I-40. By the time we got to Tennessee border, we've already introduced ourselves to each other through a memory game. All of us are already familiar with each other expect for Dr. Godfrey's wife, who also goes by Dr. Godfrey and will serve as trip's navigator. We will refer her as Dr. G for the entirety of this trip to avoid the confusion. I think it's really awesome to have a husband-wife team leading us through the trip! As she work for another university, all 10 of us students introduced ourselves to her.
At roughly 8:20 EDT this morning, we cramped all 12 of us into this large white van and headed west. The drive through Great Smoky Mountains was absolutely gorgeous to start the trip with a nice valley fog blanketing sections of I-40. By the time we got to Tennessee border, we've already introduced ourselves to each other through a memory game. All of us are already familiar with each other expect for Dr. Godfrey's wife, who also goes by Dr. Godfrey and will serve as trip's navigator. We will refer her as Dr. G for the entirety of this trip to avoid the confusion. I think it's really awesome to have a husband-wife team leading us through the trip! As she work for another university, all 10 of us students introduced ourselves to her.