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EV Road Trip, December 25-29, 2023

I’ve had my BMW i4 eDrive40 for a little under five months now and I finally got the chance to take it out for an extended road trip to visit family in Louisiana this past Christmas. Fear of the unknown is baked in with any new tech and electric vehicles are no exception. In this case, most of my anxiety was related to the availability of fast chargers on the road and questions over how close the car would get to its estimated range of 301 miles on a full charge. Knoxville to Baton Rouge clocks in around 650 miles one way, meaning I would need to fast charge on the road multiple times. I wanted to share my experience here for current EV owners and anyone who may be considering acquiring an EV to give you a sense of the current state of things in this neck of the woods.

Most of my charging is done at home, I’d say around 90%. This number hovers around 80% for EV owners in general. I have a Level 2 charger in my garage that I use to recharge the battery when I’m at home. The charger itself came with my car, and I hired an electrician to install a 240V outlet (basically, a dryer outlet) to enable me to complete a full charge within a reasonable amount of time. My car is capable of charging from a regular 110V outlet in a speedy 80 hours. Using the 240, it will fully charge in 8-10 hours, meaning you can wake up with a full battery every morning if you so choose. Realistically, I only need to charge about once a week, maybe twice if it’s a busy week. My cost to fuel up at home is around $6.15 for 300 miles of driving. Compare that to my last internal combustion engine (ICE) car, a Ford Fusion that got around 30 mpg, which would cost me $27 to do the same distance at today’s price of $2.70 per gallon, or closer to $45 at the peak of a few years ago. This is truly an ideal situation, right in the sweet spot for EV driving these days, and one of the main reasons I bought this car, along with the obvious environmental benefits and the sheer pleasure of driving these vehicles. I haven’t visited a gas station since August. I nearly pulled into one to grab a soda a few weeks ago but thought to myself, “No, I don’t belong here,” and popped over to the grocery store instead.

Although EVs have been in mass production for over a decade, the state of public charging is highly variable depending on where you live and what kind of car you have. The first thing to know is that there are two main types of EV plugs: Tesla’s and everyone else’s. If you drive a Tesla, you have access to their Supercharger network, which is by far the most extensive and reliable network in North America. If you have anything else, you are relegated to using a mishmash of public charging networks that each have their own apps and payment systems and varying degrees of reliability. Electrify America, ChargePoint, EV Connect, and EVgo are some of the more popular ones. Last year, most of the major car companies committed to adopting Tesla’s NACS standard in the U.S., unlocking access the Supercharger network using an adapter sometime in 2024 and without one in the coming years, but at the time of my trip I could only access a small handful of Tesla chargers, none of which were really along my route. 

I’ve taken a couple of shorter road trips to locations within a few hours of my home in the past few months and had a largely positive experience. My stated range of 301 miles can fluctuate depending on various factors including the outside temperature, the speed I’m driving, the amount of cargo I’m hauling including luggage and passengers, and things like how much heat or AC I’m using. It can also be reduced by degradation of the battery, but my car is still too new for that really to be an issue.

At Thanksgiving we drove to my in-laws’ house near Athens, GA, 240 miles away, through both highways and winding, hilly backroads. I arrived with 20% battery life, meaning my car hit its benchmark exactly. I brought my charger along and hooked up to their 240V outlet (my father-in-law had it installed in anticipation of getting his own EV at some point—he has a Cybertruck on order) and got the battery back up to 100% overnight. No public charging was required for that trip, making it even easier than doing the same trip in my old Fusion since I didn’t have to stop to refuel on the road.

We made short trips to Nashville and Atlanta in December, both of which required me to use public charging, with mixed results. In Nashville I used an Electrify America station near the airport, about 25 minutes from our Airbnb. I ended up having to make two separate trips to that station because their payment network was offline during the first visit and they had the charger set to complementary mode, which would have been nice save for the fact that I already get two years of free charging with Electrify America through BMW, and because it was free they lowered the charging speed (“derated” it, in EV parlance) to 40 kW. My car is capable of a max of 205 kW, so a steady 40 kW increases the charging time significantly. I should be able to get from 20% to 80% battery within 30 minutes but I sat at that charger for 41 minutes and only recovered 32% of my battery (30% to 62%) before I ran out of time and had to leave. I went back the next morning to top it off and after trying a couple of different stalls I was able to get up to 93 kW, still well below my car’s potential. Regardless, I was able to charge and get back home without having to pay anything because of my free subscription through BMW.

When we went to Atlanta, I charged in a suburban shopping area in Kennesaw, northwest of the metro area, and topped out at 147 kW, going from 20% to 75% in 25 minutes, also free of charge through Electrify America. Around 10 other vehicles were docked at the same station, including some that I had never seen in the wild before, like a BMW iX, a Genesis GV60, and a Volkswagen eGolf. I have become an expert (or as my wife Young pronounces it, “dork”) at recognizing EVs on the road, and it’s always a treat to see one I’ve never seen before. I charged at another Electrify America station in Atlanta on that trip, this one in a Walmart parking lot. Speeds were not quite as good, but I was able to get the charge I needed while passing the time inside the store grabbing a few last-minute gifts while I waited for my charge to complete. We also stopped at an EVgo station at a Flying J Travel Center just outside of Knoxville to top off. Pilot and Flying J are partnering with GM to install chargers at hundreds of their gas stations in the next few years, a huge boon to EV drivers. This station was one of the nicest I’ve seen, with covered parking by the chargers, a full convenience store with restrooms and even a restaurant. It was also very expensive compared to other fast charging stations: this stop cost me $16.88 to pull down 26 kWh ($0.65/kWh). My cost at home would have been around $2. Still, I would love to see this kind of setup become the norm.

Because of various family and professional scheduling conflicts, Young and I found ourselves driving from Knoxville to Baton Rouge on Christmas Day. There are plusses and minuses to driving on Christmas. On the plus side there is very little traffic on the road and consequently very little congestion at fast charging stations. I’ve made this trip dozens of times and it typically takes around 10 to 10.5 hours in an ICE vehicle, already a long day. One of the things I worried about with the EV is arriving at a charging station fully occupied by other drivers and having to wait 30 minutes or an hour to charge my car. Travelling on Christmas when very few people are on the road means it’s that much less likely you’ll get stuck behind other drivers, and indeed I never had to wait for a charger (the trip back home was a slightly different story as you’ll see later).

The downside is that nothing is open. Many charging stations are situated at the edges of Walmart or Target parking lots, meaning they can be accessed at any time of day or night, but along my route, the only option was often at a car dealership that could very well be behind a locked gate during off hours. Since this would be my first time charging at these particular stations, I felt I needed to do a little extra research to make sure I would have no trouble accessing the chargers I needed.

I spent an inordinate amount of time using various EV route planning apps to identify the most efficient way to reach my destination. BMW has their own navigation system, which sensibly focuses heavily on the location of charging stations, and there are other third-party apps like A Better Route Planner (ABRP) and ChargeHub that do more or less the same thing, though each has its own nuances. The basic way they work is that you input your origin and destination, what type of car you have and your current battery percentage, and it plots your route and tells you where you will need to stop and for how long to achieve the maximally efficient road trip. This is good in theory, but the charger inventory on each app is slightly different, and they have different opinions of which stops are the best options for your trip. I ended up considering several different possibilities and picked the stops that seemed to make the most sense. I slightly favored Electrify America stations since they are currently free to me, and I tried to stay away from slower chargers when possible. I also tried to find backups in case my preferred stations were for some reason unavailable.

Mississippi was the toughest leg of the trip to navigate, since there are really very few good options throughout much of the state. My apps kept trying to route me to a charger at a dealership in Hattiesburg that has a maximum speed of 50 kW. Even if that were the most efficient overall route, I just couldn’t see myself sitting at that station for over an hour to wait for my car to recharge, so I routed around it, opting to stop at a dealership in Jackson with a faster charger. Even though some of the apps say this charger is 180 kW, it’s actually only 90, but it’s still the fastest charger for hundreds of miles around. Since this would be a crucial stop on my trip, I called several days in advance to make sure that I could actually access the property and the charger on Christmas Day. The salesman assured me that the gate would be open, but trusting a stranger multiple states away with information that, if wrong, could leave me stranded on the one day of the year tow trucks will be most difficult to get, is inevitably going to be a little scary. Regardless, I decided to operate under the assumption that I was receiving accurate information and that the charger would be open when I needed it.

With all my planning done and feeling pretty good about the stops I had selected, I loaded the car with suitcases, sandwiches and snacks for the road, Christmas gifts, a guitar or two, a very sleepy spouse, and a very nervous cat, and we hit the road around 6:45am. As anticipated, the roads were as empty as I’ve ever seen them, even in normally congested areas like Chattanooga. Our first stop was Fort Payne, AL, 170 miles from home, at a ChargePoint station in a parking lot near a rail depot. This station is rated at 125 kW, and I was able to achieve a charging speed of 86 kW, going from 31% to 75% in 29 minutes. I was grateful to have downloaded the ChargePoint app ahead of time, because that seemed to be the only way to pay at this station. In fact, I had downloaded every app I could think of a few days prior, created accounts, and linked my payment method. If I hadn’t done this, I would have spent significantly longer fumbling with apps in the cold and drizzling rain just to get a charge. Cost was fairly reasonable, $15.60 for 37 kWh ($0.42/kWh). Overall, this was a nice stop, right in the middle of downtown, with shops and cafes within easy walking distance, and relatively clean public restrooms that were accessible even on Christmas Day. I look forward to stopping here again when things are actually open.

Next up was an Electrify America station 132 miles from Fort Payne at the Mercedes Benz Welcome Center in Vance, AL. Mercedes, like a lot of foreign car manufacturers, has factories in the non-unionized south, and this is their flagship location. The chargers—six of them, all empty—are set up in the visitor’s center parking lot. Payment authorization was again done using an app. The first cable I tried didn’t recognize my car so I had to try a second, which connected right away. There was a beautiful Mercedes EQE SUV across the parking lot, probably a demo for the EV curious. On normal days there would be restrooms available, but no such luck today. Still, this was one of the fastest chargers I’ve used to date, topping out at 169 kW. I arrived with 21% and left 30 minutes later with 80%, pretty much exactly as the brochure advertised. I should have stayed another 10 minutes.

The third and final charging stop on this trip was the aforementioned EV Connect station at the dealership in Jackson, 200 miles from stop #2. If you do the math here, my car was at 80% battery leaving Mercedes, supposedly 240 miles of range if you believe the estimates. I figured I would arrive in Jackson with around 10-12% of battery left. What I was not accounting for was 1) the weather, as EV batteries lose range in the cold, plus we were running the heater at a pretty good clip, 2) my highway speeds, close to 80 mph on wide open Interstate, and 3) a fully laden vehicle with much more cargo than I typically carry.

My car’s nav system can be set to arrive at a destination with a specified battery percentage. I had it configured to arrive with at least 10% remaining. For the first part of this leg of the trip, that seemed achievable, with an estimated arrival percentage of about 13%. But slowly I watched that drop to 12%, then 11%, then 10%. When it dipped below 10%, my car began to warn me that we wouldn’t make it, and suggested I make another stop to charge.

That was not what I wanted to hear, so I updated the arrival status to 5% battery. The percentage continued to drop: 9%, 8%, 7%. At this point, I decided that I didn’t particularly want to wait hours for a tow truck on Christmas Day, so it was either make another stop or take measures to reduce battery consumption. I opted for door #2, turning down the heat and reducing my speed to 70 mph. There wasn’t any cargo I could unload, so that’s about all I could do. Thankfully, it was enough. The estimated arrival percentage stopped dropping and I was able to make it to Jackson with 6% battery remaining.

This was not an experience I would recommend to anyone. It seemed like every exit I passed from Vance to Jackson had at least one gas station. Many had 3 or 4. But charging stops in this part of the country can be 100 miles apart or more, so if you miss your chance to charge when you can, or if your app was wrong about there being a station there, or if it’s not open or all the cables are broken or someone parked their ICE truck in front of the charger and left it there all day, your outlook starts to look pretty bleak. On the return trip I encountered a couple from Huntsville in an Audi e-Tron who experienced just that: app routed them to a non-existent charger. Battery was depleted. Tow trucks were called. Garments were rent.

Thankfully we avoided that fate. The dealership’s gates were open, as promised, though I had to cross the steepest speed bumps I’ve ever seen and navigate past the line of Level 2 chargers to find the fast chargers I was looking for. These were of the EV Connect variety, max charging speed of 90 kW. A Mach-E was leaving as I arrived, and a very friendly Tesla driver grabbing some free electrons from the Level 2s chatted me up while we waited. We were at this stop for 50 full minutes charging from 6% to 82%, more than I really needed to get to Baton Rouge, but I wasn’t taking any chances this time. This was also one of the cheapest stops I actually paid for, $21.08 for 65 kWh.

The last leg was uneventful, mostly empty highways and grey skies.  Overall, my trip time was around 11.5 hours, 1 to 1.5 hours longer it typically takes me, or 10-15% extra time. Not that bad, all said and done. We didn’t make any additional stops for food, but ate packed sandwiches and snacks in the car, another one of the little joys of travelling on Christmas Day.

In an ideal world, on a long road trip you would be able to pull your car into a charging station near a restaurant, set it to refuel while you enjoy your meal, then come back out just as it hits your desired state of charge. The reality is not always so neat. Stations are often placed in locations that lack the amenities you would hope for (only 1 of the 3 stops on this trip had bathrooms that were open). The dearth of stations also interferes with optimal trip planning. With a 300-mile range, I should theoretically be able to make this trip with only 2 stops rather than 3, but because of where the available chargers are located I had to make some compromises. Charging speed is also an issue. Having access to faster chargers could shave off 25%-50% of the time I spent at charging stations. Tesla has it figured out. Their chargers are fast, reliable, plentiful. Getting access to their network and to the charging infrastructure that’s supposedly on the docket from other companies in 2024 should make this trip much easier on the next go-round.

Baton Rouge, somewhat surprisingly to me, has very few EV charging options. There are a few in the works including an EVgo at a Pilot Travel Center in Denham Springs, noted as “Coming Soon” in the PlugShare app. Thankfully, my parents happen to have a 240V outlet at their house so I was able to do Level 2 charging there with my portable charger while I hung out with them. I also did some fast charging at the Porche dealership in Baton Rouge. That one was weird, a $20 flat fee that you pay inside, meaning you can only charge during business hours. Charging was also slower than I would have expected, 40 minutes to get from 46% to 92% ($0.49/kWh). At least I got to ogle the Taycans they had on the lot while I waited. There was a brand new Kia EV9 charging next to me. The owner was from Houston, in town visiting family. He said he was the first person to take delivery of that vehicle in his city. It looked fantastic, big and black and shiny. His first EV road trip as well.

I was able to bop around town on those charges with no problem, never in danger of dropping too low.

The trip back home was significantly more tedious than the trip down. We drove back on December 29, so at least things were open, but unlike our Christmas sojourn we started out around 50% charge instead of 100%, which immediately put us at a disadvantage. It’s generally not recommended to fast charge beyond around 80%, both for the longevity of the battery and because the charging curve drops off sharply beyond that point. It’s almost always faster to get to 80% and do your additional charging at the next station when your battery is further depleted. What this means is that you can’t just multiply your battery capacity by the number of stops you make and expect to make a trip of that distance with anything approaching expediency. Just because my car can go 300 miles on a charge doesn’t mean I can efficiently do a 600-mile road trip with only one recharge. Starting out at 100% is your best shot at satisfactory performance on long trips. Since we didn’t do that, the return trip took 5 stops rather than the 3 we made on the way down.

The first stop was one of my worst charging experiences ever, rivaling the broken and de-rated chargers in Nashville. There were no Electrify America stations in Baton Rouge but we found one just up the road in Hammond, in what appeared to be a rather bougie shopping center with a Target (pronounced the French way, naturally) and a few restaurants. There were four stations, one occupied by a Hyundai Ioniq 5 and two by slow-charging Chevy Bolts. I slid into the fourth slot, which appeared to be online and functioning but which would not connect to my car. I called the Electrify assistance number on the stall and the person on the other end of the line informed me that that particular charger was offline. I told them there was nothing to indicate this. They had no response. Shortly after this, one of the Bolts pulled away so I switched to that stall and connected to start my charge. Unfortunately, the tap-to-pay function wasn’t working on this station, so I had once again to call EA to ask them to kindly allow me to charge my car. We were eventually able to get this to work, but this charger was derated, maxing out at a paltry 46 kW, and it took me 27 minutes to get from 46% to 70%. That was enough to take me to my next stop, so I moved aside to allow the previously mentioned Audi drivers to power up. This was the only station of the trip I failed to get a picture of because I was so frustrated by the experience.

Next it was back to the dealership in Jackson. It was open that day, so I was able to use the restrooms. A Rivian R1T was charging up in the stall beside me, its driver catching a few winks. Still a relatively slow charge, maxing out at 87 kW, taking me from 14% to 93% in 53 minutes, but consistent, and really the only reliable electric port in the Mississippi sea of petrol. This stop cost $20.94 for 64 kWh ($0.32/kWh).

We continued to reverse the trip, travelling the 200 miles back to Mercedes, but this time with extra juice in the tank to avoid the scary scenario we experienced on the way down. Arrived with 15% battery and got up to 80% in 30 minutes, topping out at 156 kW. Again had to try two cables before finding one that would connect. There was another i4 fueling up when we pulled in, sparkling in jet black, one of just a handful I’ve seen on the road.

Next, we faced a choice. We could have stopped again in Fort Payne and gotten home on one last charge, but we opted instead to stop in Birmingham, where there looked to be better food options that would still be open when we arrived. The stop itself was a ChargePoint station at a Hyundai dealership northeast of downtown. We grabbed takeout from a taco truck and ate it in the car while we waited. Distance to home was 253 miles, so I figured we could potentially make it without another stop if we topped off the battery. I took it from 59% to 99% in 41 minutes—not a very fast charger (maxed out at 62 kW), plus I was getting into the inefficient part of the charging curve. Cost was $15.94 for 33 kWh ($0.48/kWh).

We were making good time, but the weather and the load were working against us (somehow we came home with nearly as many gifts as we brought with us), so my range wasn’t anywhere close to the published 301 miles. I might have been able to make it all the way home if we had reduced our speed and turned off the heat, but that would have extended our already extremely long trip even further, so I opted to stop instead at an Electrify America in Ooltewah, TN for a quick top up (36% to 50% in 5 minutes, lightning fast) to make sure we’d arrive home with a comfortable buffer, which we did.

With the extra stops, the return trip ended up being over 13 hours, long enough that we were both pretty tired and cranky but ready for a good night’s sleep and grateful that we still had a three-day weekend ahead of us. I was also glad to be back home to my cozy garage where I could plug in my charger and wake up to a fully charged battery for the cost of a fancy coffee.

My total cost for public charging on this trip was $93.88 over a distance of 1,669 miles (would have been somewhat more if not for free Electrify America charging). Add another $15 or so for home charging. For comparison, that distance would have cost $153 in my Fusion at $2.75/gallon.

If you’ve made it this far, thank you for reading, apologies for my long windedness, and I hope it was helpful. Even with all the challenges, I still believe in this technology and I feel strongly that we’re right on the cusp of a tipping point. The signs are looking favorable that 2024 is the year America will get its act together with fast charging. This year, my trip was doable, if a little rough around the edges. This time next year, I hope to be able to report that it’s not only doable, but easy.

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All The Data:  Carlin + Evan

The Couple—

Carlin Brianne (Bates) Stewart  (b. April 11, 1998)

Parents   Gil + Kelly Jo Bates

Child #   9 of 19

Hometown   Rocky Top, TN

Early Education   ATI/IBLP and Abeka Homeschooling  (to 2016)

Higher Education   B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies (2019), Liberty University  (Online); Coursework (Transferred to Liberty), The Crown College  (Powell, TN)

Occupation   Co–Owner, The Bates Sisters’ Boutique  (2019—)

Evan Patrick Stewart  (b. August 24, 1995)

Parents   Paul + Denese Stewart

Child #   5 of 6

Hometown   Nashville, TN

Early Education   [ Unknown ]

Higher Education   Vocational Electrician’s Training  (Part–Time; ?—)

Credentials   [ None Apparent ]  (Note—As of October 2019, Evan is not listed as a licensed electrician in Tennessee.)

Occupation   Electrician’s Apprentice  (Knoxville, TN; ?—)

... Previous   [ Unknown Position ], NorthCrest Medical Center; Springfield, TN  (c. 2016)  

The Relationship—

First Meeting   September 17, 2016  (Saturday)

Location   Ladies’ Conference at South Haven Baptist Church; Springfield, TN

Details   Carlin + Evan first met when Kelly Jo and the Bates Daughters, including Carlin, spoke at a Ladies’ Conference at the Stewarts’ church. Evan happed to be working at the event as a server.  Carlin’s sister, Erin, noticed the spark between them and set them up.

Pre–Courtship   September 17, 2016  (Saturday)

Timing   Based on their annual Instagram Posts, Carlin + Evan agree that they “fell in love” on September 17, 2016—i.e., the day they met.  Clearly, they have considered themselves a couple since then, so that is the date Duggar Data uses as their pre–courtship start date.

Announced   March 23, 2017 on Bringing Up Bates (3–23–17), “Mass–a–Something”  (+187 Days)

Courtship   August 5, 2017  (Saturday)

Location   Norris Dam State Park; Rocky Top, TN  (See Bringing Up Bates (1–4–18), “The 4 Cs: Carat, Clarity, Carlin, and Courtship”)

Timing   On Bringing Up Bates (1–4–18), “The 4 Cs: Carat, Clarity, Carlin, and Courtship,” it’s established that Carlin started courting the day after her sister Josie’s 18th Birthday (August 4, 2017).  So, Carlin + Evan must have begun courting on August 5, 2017.

Details   Evan led Carlin on a scavenger hunt, which included a riverboat lunch cruise, a stop at church, a visit to Erin’s house, and finally to Norris Dam State Park.  At the park, Evan sang Carlin a love song that he wrote for her, presented her with the symbolic “key to his heart,” and asked her to enter a courtship.  She said yes and cried.  (See Bringing Up Bates (1–4–18), “The 4 Cs: Carat, Clarity, Carlin, and Courtship”)     

Announced   January 4, 2018 by UpTV  (+152 Days)

Featured On   Bringing Up Bates (1–4–18), “The 4 Cs: Carat, Clarity, Carlin, and Courtship”

Engagement   September 22, 2018  (Saturday)

Location   Portland Head Lighthouse; Cape Elizabeth, ME

Timing   Carlin + Evan never disclosed their exact engagement date, but it’s easily discernible from credible sources.  Per People (Exclusive, 9–24–18), Evan proposed “over the weekend”—i.e., Saturday, September 22nd or Sunday, September 23rd.  (See Also.)  From there, we can then narrow it to Saturday, September 22, 2018, because their photographer reported that Evan proposed on a Saturday.

Details   Evan whisked Carlin away to Maine.  After a day of enjoying the sights, a limousine chauffeured the couple to Portland Head Lighthouse in the evening.  Evan proposed, Carlin said yes, and they danced.   

Announced   September 24, 2018 by People  (Exclusive; +2 Days)

Featured On   Bringing Up Bates (1–31–19), “The Maine Event”

Wedding   May 25, 2019, 5:30 PM  (Saturday)

Location   Castleton Farms; Loudon, TN

Officiants   Gil Bates  (Bride’s Father), Frank Gagliano  (Groom’s Pastor)

MOHs   Whitney Bates  (Bride’s SIL), Erin Paine  (Bride’s Sister)

Best Man   Ethan Stewart  (Groom’s Brother)

Announced   May 25, 2019 by Us Weekly  (Exclusive; Same Day)

Featured On   N/A  (Not Yet Featured)

Honeymoon   Majestic Mirage (Resort); Punta Cana, Dominican Republic  (See Also)

The Quiver—

Layla Rae Stewart  (In Utero)

Pregnancy Announced   September 4, 2019 by Romper  (Exclusive; ~112 Days Along)

Sex & Name Revealed   October 5, 2019 on Carlin’s and Evan’s Instagrams  (~143 Days Along)

Due Date   February 18–20, 2020  (Duggar Data uses 2–19–20.)

... for now, that’s “All The Data” for Carlin + Evan.

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Where Can I Get Electrician Training in Knoxville, TN?

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I have lost my faith in the dude that offered me the job on the line crew. Tomorrow I am am going to set myself up as an apprentice electrician and see how that works out. 

 Also on the agenda for tomorrow, I was hired to pick up a car in Atlanta. I was hoping to pimp out my services to make money on the trip there and back. Its seems though I have been hijacked. So as you recall earlier this week I went and retrieved a trailer for a “friend” who had purchased said trailer from me , then proceeded to over tighten the bearings and melted them on the way to Knoxville. He took the car that was on the trailer ( almost stock CRX ) and drove it the rest of the way ( he only made it 20 miles outside of Savannah before the trailer gave up ).  So he wants to ride along, pick up the car I was supposed to get from Atlanta, drive/ride back to load his car up on the trailer and return it to Savannah. Its a discombobulated 3 way mess and that’s 4-6 hours in a truck with someone I don’t want to be in a truck with