Sat Feb 23 & Sun Feb 24, 2020
Not much to say except we drove, and drove, and drove! On Saturday after a quick bite at the hotel we were on the road by 8:15am. A quick fill-up stop at Wendy’s for a salad and gas for the car we pushed on to West Memphis, Arkansas just over the border from Memphis Tennessee. Our only screw up of the day was using Hotel Tonight to book a hotel which incorrectly was marked as being in West Memphis but in fact was in Texas. They do not make it easy to resolve incorrect bookings on their website – no human interaction is intended! After much frustrating communication which was compounded by our sh*!#$ phone card, I was finally able to get the phone number for the booking site from the hotel staff. I could not get a refund, but managed to at least get a credit for a future booking. In the meantime we landed at a Quality Inn which was not great but just fine. Had dinner at a local Mexican chain where the meals were also quite fine. The $0.99 Marguerites certainly helped.
Sunday was another drive day with a quick breakfast and we were on the road by 7:30am. More drive thru’s at Wendy’s and McD’s along with gas stops filled the day. We did pass a few interesting sites including out of commission oil rig and many cattle, not to mention a surplus of casinos on native lands. The day wrapped up with another Mexican meal which was very good and very affordable.
Our phone frustrations continued. It was quite ‘fun’ to start receiving US election spam as soon as we crossed borders though (check out the photo)! After endless drops from Michael’s 6 year old phone, we switched the phone card to my phone which improved reception marginally.
By end of Sunday we had travelled 1,670 miles (2,688 km).
