Vacation final day
We left Hope pretty early and drove on diagonally across Arkansas. Most of our trip, we chose two lane drives. With the speed limits of 75, we made probably as good time as being on the interstate but saw so much more. In Arkansas, we noticed there wasn't much to Little Rock besides the river, it has some really poor drivers, and has acre after acre of fields of cotton and rice.
On the whole trip, we saw a few corn fields and no soy beans. It was different agriculture than what we are used to, but just like at home, we were easily entertained by watching crop dusters.
We held off lunch until making it to Sikeston Missouri at about 3 pm. The plan was to let the kids experience Lambert's Cafe, home of the throwed rolls, but it has obviously turned into a 'destination' for many people and required an hour wait. We were disappointed, well, probably not Gary, but we drove on to Cape Girardeau and ate at a nearly empty Ryan's there. We drove through the hilly SEMO campus for Jack's sake. It seemed like a cool town.
We traveled up Interstate 55 quickly with a stop in Arnold Missouri for gasoline and then we were home. 2320 miles, five states, no disasters, and lots of new family memories--definitely worth it!
We would definitely visit Texas again.
I had fun reading your blogs about the trip... it's almost like being there with you, except I didn't have to deal with the crowded van. :)
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