We had rarely been so happy to enter a new state. Despite the day before being just awful, we were hopeful about Louisiana. We spoke to the woman at the welcome center alone more than anyone in the previous state.…
Day 84: Mississippi
We entered Mississippi first thing in the morning. It was a gloriously sunny day. Almost as soon as we got in, we saw a burning field. Mississippi was so empty. Chris commented several times there that it felt the most…
Day 83: Arkansas
We headed into rural Arkansas to meet some people who weren’t truckers. We are so clearly on a major truck route at the moment, it’s been hard, but we did find a few in the town of Biscoe: We went…
Day 82: Memphis, Tennessee
We left our not so stellar motel in Dickson (the guy next door smoked and drank in his doorway most of the night while listening to horrible music) and had a look at Memphis, Tennessee. I was keen to find…
Day 81: Nashville, Tennessee
We crossed into Tennessee from Alabama almost immediately as Huntsville is right on the border. Something that is even more right on the border is a small town called Ardmore where one side of the street is Alabama and the…
Day 80: Huntsville i.e. Rocket City, Alabama
Something I didn’t know about Alabama till this trip is that they make rockets. Florida and Texas get most of the press being the launch site and the ground control, but Huntsville, Alabama has made rockets and continues to be…
Day 79: Montgomery & Birmingham, Alabama
We woke up after quite a rough night in Montgomery. We got called in the middle of the night, I assume from someone else in the hotel, as that is really the only way to call someone in a hotel and…
Day 78: Rural Florida and Alabama
We had one more dip in the gulf and then unfortunately had to carry on. I do like traveling, but this was hard to leave: Almost as soon as we left the coast, the Florida panhandle got very rural very…
Day 77: Panama City Beach, Florida
We decided we needed to make some very serious distance due to spending so much time in Florida. We have really loved it, but it still only 29 out of 48 we intend to travel to, so Chris drove 350…
Day 76: Venice and Tampa, Florida
After an excellent night in Naples, we headed north. The first city we checked out, Venice, turned out to mainly because retirement or snowbird community, that is, many people with homes there live in the north of the US most…