Another one of these trips where you fly into one state and drive to another because it’s the closest airport. That’s usually a bad sign.
This is my 2nd trip to Murray - ironically, I was here about 4-5 years ago on this same weekend - BracketBuster Saturday.
The drive from Nashville to Murray is a little over 2 hours.
The first hour and a half is all I-24, so an easy drive. Then you exit onto SR 68 and life comes to a screeching halt! It takes forever and a day to get thru the Land Between the Lakes. It looks like it must be a nice area in the summer for camping and such – but today it was just frustrating. Plus there is this bridge that is terrifying! It is so freaking narrow! There is no way 2 trucks can pass on this bridge!
I rolled into Murray around 5pm. We had a partial set day – not until 6pm though. So I hit up “Linda” my trusty GPS, for a package store so I could have some post set-day beverages awaiting me later that evening. Hmm… she couldn’t find any. So I went to a gas station. Nothing. As I was paying for my water, I inquired. “Closest package store is 40 miles away. This area is all dry.”
My response – “This is a college town and it’s dry!?”
I passed like 100 package stores on the way – nope, I didn’t think to stop until now.
Moving on!
Checked into the hotel. Very nice and new Hampton Inn. My room was huge!
And it had a view of the truck – so I could tell when it was parked and powered das boot!
Set day was from 6-10p. Our game is at 11am local tomorrow and it’s BracketBuster Saturday – so they wanted us to get a head start. Which was good for me – my AP hadn’t done basketball before. So this was going to be an uphill battle.
At the end of the night, everyone was headed to some campus bars (only way to drink) – I chose to hit the Tumbleweed next to the hotel to make it a quick dinner and off to bed!
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