7:57 a.m. Blacksburg, S.C.

It's day on of the bus journey and were taking a breakfast fuel break in Blacksburg, S.C., which is up Interstate 85 near Gaffney on the way to Charlotte, N.C.

I was a bit disoriented when I saw the Blacksburg sign, because I knew we weren't in Virginia yet. I think it was the fact that I was waking up on a bus that had R&B and Blues playing overhead since we got on the bus at 1 a.m.

I never did make it to sleep last night, so I'm feeling like dirt. My mom didn't go to sleep either so I'm sure she's feeling the same way. I think we'll both just pass out when we get to Richmond.

The cool thing that has happened so far, is that on a couple of the rest stops we've already met people on buses from Baton Rouge, La. and West Point, Miss.

The bus driver says we have about 300 miles to go. So , I'm sure there will be more to post at lunch time.

P.S. Shouts out to Amanda Soward for coming out at 1 a.m. to take a picture, and Cassandra Brown who sent m a text message saying it was snowing in Virginia at about the same time.