Bluetooth interrupts my playlist over the speakers to announce I have a call just as I pull into the city limits of Athens.

“I just pulled into town,” I inform Hamilton instead of saying hello.

“Good, I was worried.”

“Why?”

He explains I mentioned the time I planned to leave Columbia and with that I should have arrived an hour ago. I can’t admit that I needed one more hour with Liberty before I left on yet another trip. Instead I promise that my ...