My sister and my best friend left the Columbus area of Ohio at about 1:00. We arrived at the Kentucky meet-up point at a little before 7, just minutes before Rhett and Link got there. In total, there and back, we drove for about 9 hours. (That's not counting our own rest stops.) Rhett and Link gave us kudos for coming the furthest of all the fans there.

I shall discard all the lovely, but unnecessary, details about our trip like getting lost, trying to figure out how to pump gas,…