Travel to Knox

Day 2 6 June 02 Thursday

The day started off at 0420 with a wake-up and breakfast. A shuttle picked us (40 others were doing what I was doing) up and took us to MEPS. I remember Rachel saying that at Molly's they saw the sun rise. So did I today. It was great. Spent 6 hours at MEPS being briefed. Finally we get to the airport and check in. We find that our flight doesn't leave until 1600 so we waited. At the security check, I was asked to take off my shoes. They were rubbed down for explosive residue. Our flight took us first to Chicago where we hit our connecting flight to Louisville, KY. At the Minneapolis/St Paul airport, we were sitting at our gate when I looked over and saw a girl who was playing wall ball. I did a double take because she looked like and reminded me of Rachel. It was weird because at the restaurant in the airport where i ate, there was a meal called 'Grilled Classic Rachel'. Curious, I tried it and it was good. We made it safe to Chicago and hit our connecting flight to Louisville. A bus drove us to Fort Knox. We had arrived but it was 2000 local time. We were briefed and finally released at 0130 and I got in to my barracks by 0200. Wake up: 0400.