So this post is going to be a bit all over the place, loosely talking about our early morning before a second post will address the Civil War.

It’s day two of our crazy road trip from Pennsylvania to Georgia with two teenage girls. Day one we covered Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and Washington, D.C.

We used the app Hotel Tonight to find a cheap hotel room in Hopewell, Va., three miles away from Petersburg National Battlefield.

It was a basic room in a Quality Inn motel with a very friendly staff. $59/night even with the taxes. My daughter loves hotels and motels even when they are extremely basic. She walks in proclaiming instantly, “I love this place!” Every. Single. Time.

I gave the teens their craft boxes.

We checked in at 9 pm and checked out at 8 am.

And after our continental breakfast with coffee I did not enjoy, we headed out into what was billed to be a 95 degree day ahead.

But we had given the girls whoopee cushions so the whoopee games begin…