Friday
January 2, 2009
10:09 AM EST = Left motel room after big breakfast
5173.8 Trip miles
23,250 Total
42 F and drizzle
50% oil life
20% fuel
10:30/5174.9 = On the road again -- on I-20, but I've been having thoughts of straying off course
9:39 AM CST/5185.4 = Entered Central Time Zone, and was welcomed by "Alabama The Beautiful"
10:03/5214.5 = Took x185 in Anniston. $26 = 17.342 gallons (5214.9)
10:13/5215.5 = Back on the road again, completely comfortable after that 1 glass of cranberry and 3 glasses of orange juice at the hotel... Even the road is bumpy so I'm getting a nice foot massage, and "Lost Highway" is still playing on the radio
11:04/5274.4 = Took exit for I-65 North... hmmmm.... Either I'm goin to Nashville or I'm on a mission to photograph a sign -- I dunno yet
11:21/5294.7 = Took x280 @ Kimberly
11:37 = Took a few pics of Kimberly and came back to I-65, going South -- I wanna go to Memphis now.
11:45/5308.5 = Took x271 @ Fieldstown.
12:00/5316.1 = Joined U.S. 78 (future I-22 according to my iphone) -- going to Memphis, then Little Rock, then I-30 to Dallas -- another road I've never been on (between Little Rock and Texarkana). Even this road -- U.S. 78 -- Future I-22 -- I've never been here since April 1995
12:14/5333 = Took "Lost Highway" off continuous repeat! I'm NEVER gonna get those lyrics right! Next song is "Bad to the bone"...
1:16/5407.0 = Left Alabama and entered Mississippi as the song "All Summer Long" is playing on Roadtrips #9/1.
1:58/5446.2 = Put on some of "The King"'s music considering the part of the state I'm passing through, and the city I will be in in 1 hour
3:00 PM on the dot = 5524.0 trip miles on the dot = Entered Tennessee and Memphis (But I dunno which dots)
3:14/5531.9 = I-240 West
3:18/5535 = Just kept going straight from I-240 to an old favorite, good ole (and old) I-55 North
3:25/5542.7 = 2nd and final crossing of the Mighty Mississippi and entered Secretary of State-elect Hillary Clinton's ex home state.
3:29/5547.4 = Merged with I-40 East....
3:31/5549.7 = I-55 North went North, I'm still on I-40 going my way
5:14/5669.2 = x15 in Little Rock. $25 = 17.871 Gallons (5669.7)
5:30/5670.0 = Back on I-40, for a little bit
5:33/5672.8 = I-30 West. Its very foggy and misty.
7:36/5815.6 = Somewhere back there I entered Texas but there was no sign... it's roughly at m224. Passing thru Texarkana, which means I've driven the full length of I-30 now -- the rest of tonight will be a repeat from a previous trip -- Thanksgiving weekend 10-11 years ago in a minivan!
8:46/5895 = Debating driving thru the night tonight -- From here to Weatherford is 166 miles, I could stay there... Then Tucson or Casa Grande tomorrow (Weatherford-Tucson = 900 miles) -- then home on Sunday -- another 900 miles.
OR if I drive another 300-400 tonight then Bryce becomes possible on Sunday -- that would be the PERFECT last day -- but forecast call for snow on Sunday -- as long as roads are clear..... who knows!
10:20 PM = 24,086 total miles = 6000 trip miles in Dallas
10:52/6036.0 = Was joined by I-20 at the end of I-30... I just drove all of I-30 nonstop -- all 363.2 miles -- the only major (1- or 2-digit) interstate freeway ending in 0 or 5 that I've driven non-stop. The only other one where thats possible is I-45 ... so now I've driven entire lengths of I-5, I-25, I-45, I-55 (the first one), I-10, I-30, I-40, I-70 & I-80.
I-15, I-65, I-75, I-20 are "almost" done...
11:04/6049.2 = x408
11:10/6049.8 = Checked in @ Sleep Inn
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