Being Hunts, we got a late start on Friday morning. However, we had already decided and agreed that we were on vacation and schedules did not apply. We were casting our fate to plannidippity, the best way to travel. The first leg of our trip went well, at least until west of Carrolton when we saw a sign that said road construction 4 miles. We had thought of taking the river route on 42 but knew this would slow us down quite a bit. Unfortunately, it would have been the faster way to go. As we learned at the top of the next hill, where we found ourselves at the tail end of several miles of parking lot. We car danced to the Ragbirds and enjoyed each other's company not allowing this to deter our joy.
We stopped for lunch at the Hard Rock in Louisville then headed southbound.
Heading west on the by pass to Route 40, we came upon another parking lot between Nashville and Jackson, Tennessee. Nine hours after we left, we met John & Vicky Lecroy for dinner. This was dejavu of our last trip out west when it took ten hours to get to their home which normally takes six. They took us to an interesting restaurant at the Casey Jones village. We look forward to stopping for a longer visit on our trip home. They invited us to sleep over but we were already hours behind schedule so we drove through the night, taking turns at the wheel. We stopped at a rest area west of Memphis after we crossed into Arkansas but the smell, the heat and the bugs were more troublesome then driving in the wee hours. With plenty of good homegrown music mixed in with some Moody Blues, we were serenaded by Mike Helm and Bromwell Diehl and Ashley Peacock. One day into our trip, we were finally making progress.....or so we thought....
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