10/14 - Three States, Two Roadblocks, and One Welcomed Hotel Room

And suddenly, it's almost over.  We woke up this morning overlooking the Cumberland Plateau for the last time.  We are anxious to get home, but sad to see this part of our journey end.

Ron & Barb, Sue & Randy plan to travel with us as far as Cookeville, 45 minutes west of Fairfield Glade to see Erin (Whynaught daughter) & Stevie's new home.  So after a quick visit, tour of their beautiful home, and final group photo, Tony & I hit the road at 10 am.  Our goal is to get west of Texarkana this evening. 

The roads are quiet, it's Sunday morning (in the bible belt) and we make great time.  As we round a curve in Memphis a beautiful purple church bus merges onto the freeway and we hear a loud CRACK!  We got stoned in Memphis!  Yep, that beautiful purple bus shot a piece of gravel at our front windshield. The crack is sufficient,  inch with a tiny spider crack off to the side.  Bummer, but if this is the worst of our trip, we're not complaining.

On to Arkansas  We continue west on I40 and hit a couple of major road construction spots resulting in 30 minute delays at each spot - one east and the other west of Little Rock.  One observation since getting back on the freeways after Wisconsin is that semi drivers are rude and sometimes very dangerous in their road behaviour.  Those things are sooooo damn big!

We get to Texarkana before dark and decide to push another 20 miles to New Boston.  During a quick pitstop we 1) find the potty 2) pick up a pizza 'cause the hotel receptionist informed us there were few open restaurants around the hotel in New Boston, and 3) stop at a grocery store to pick up a bottle of wine for the evening.  OMG!!! We're in Boone County, TX!!!! It's a dry county!!! Now we have a pizza and no wine!!!  Ahhh, wait a minute, we threw a couple of beers into the cooler (with ice) before we left the Whynauchts.  Thank goodness for some advanced planning.

So we're tucked in in New Boston, TX.  We're still on target to get home on Tuesday.  Hopefully there are no squatters at the house!

Here are a couple of pics of the day.