The vacation was just as awful as I thought it was going to be... only it was somehow even worse because the hotel that we were staying at caught on fire. I'll save you all 4 hours of reading and myself 12 hours of typing and just give a list of event:

CONS:
-No Car rental despite making reservations months in advance
-Hotel also fucked up on the reservations and we didn't get the original room we were promised.
-Dad is still an asshole
-Brother is still an asshole
-Brother's friends are ALL assholes
-Drunken fighting with the groomsman, mostly involving my brother and his best man.
-Was stuck sleeping in the same room with Dad as he was shitfaced drunk off his ass every night. On the final night he was crawling around on the floor trying to find the mini fridge and spilled everything inside on himself because he needed his fucking chocolate milk. That's right, a grown ass man in his 50s who drinks chocolate milk every night at midnight....
-Half of the wedding guests were cousin fuckers. That's not a crack at Tennessee by the way, I mean there were LITERALLY people at this wedding who married their cousins. No joke.
-Bitten by multiple bugs. The bugs in general actually, Jesus Christ!
-Entire Hotel filled up with smoke on the night before the wedding. We had to evacuate at 2am. Fire department didn't even show up. Staff told us that the lint in their turbine engine sized dryer caught fire and that it "just happens sometimes."
-My Dad said some pretty hurtful shit to me on this trip that made me take a walk into the woods and NOT want to come back. I obviously did come back though.
-My Dad is STILL an asshole!
-and to top it all off, a shitty family who let their 10 kids run around screaming that was on our flight to Tennessee was somehow ALSO on our return flight to California!!
-Longest actual vacation I've ever been on in my life and it was a complete nightmare....

PROS:
-The grub was great. Tasty Southern food and smokey barbeque. And it's cheap!
-Spent most of the rides in the back of a pickup truck. It's legal there. So that was fun.
-$2.89 was the most expensive gas price. Show that to someone who lives in California and their jaw will hit the floor.
-Uhhhh... Nashville was fun? I bought a shot glass.
-Miles and miles of corn as we drove through Kentucky. (I think that's a pro???)
-Cracker Barrel was nice.

There is SOOOO much more to these five days of misery. I'd compare it to eating a shit covered banana split. Sure, there was plenty of things in it that I enjoyed... but at the end of the day, you're still eating shit. The nightmare is over. It's hopefully just a really bad memory mow