We made it to Louisville. YAY! Perfect weather all the way. We did not have a single bit "bad" weather on our entire drive from Cali to here. Sure we missed bad weather behind us or in front of us, but we never had to drive through any of it. I call that miracle one....especially with all the horrible weather that was preceding or following us. Remember that spring that broke that made us call our travels to a halt yesterday? The one where we broke down just 8 miles from a very nice RV park and a parts store nearby? The one that made us decide to just call it a night instead of go for Memphis? We found out today that hwy 40 between Little Rock and Memphis was a mess. It made national news. One person at the rv park had left the park 11am heading east but came back 10 hours later claiming it was hopeless. A couple coming from the east said it took them 18 hours to get from Memphis to Little Rock. Today eastbound 40 was smooth and clear (albeit we had a bottle neck in Memphis due to construction and the mess left over from four days of foul foul weather. ) But their were signs of the trouble from the day before. There were still some cars every now and again stuck in the median. In fact, there was a fully loaded car hauler semi with it's tires buried up to the axles with mud and snow. I call that little miracle two. If the leaf spring hadn't broke we would had been stuck in that mess. And worse....what if it had broke while in that mess.
I do have to admit in Memphis there was one long bridge that still had ice, water and a berm of snow that was a bit scary to cross. Semi-trucks jetting across with only inches to pass me (construction narrowed the lanes) didn't help.
I am rating the kindness of Arkansas and Kentucky drivers high today. Every time we wanted to pull in, pass, get around, etc. nobody tried to rush up or cut us off. Just the opposite, folks slowed for us and were very cordial.
Our producers found a nice RV park for us and went so far as to change our reservation from two rvs (we were hoping to buy an RV trailer as well as the Motor-home, but it didn't work out) to an Rv spot and a really nice cabin for the older boys.
We set up at the venue tomorrow.
While driving into town tonight we tried to find one of the billboards with my mug on it. There are supposed to be 14 around so I hope I see one.
We met and angel today. Our GPS apparently needs an update. The off-ramp for our RV park directions has been going through changes and the road it was supposed to connect to isn't there anymore. (looks recent) The alternate route took us down a narrow industrial area road to an underpass that measured around 10'....the RV is nearly 13' tall. I climbed out of the RV to survey the situation when a woman in an old Toyota pulled up and informed me there was no way I could make it. I told here where we were heading and she told me she would back up an wait for us to first, figure out how we were going to turn around, and second, she escorted us to the RV park. She didn't even wait to be thanked. She just stuck her arm out the window as we came to the park and pointed, then drove away. Who was she? We will never know. But for us, tonight, she was an angel! Miracle three.
The girls today took every chance at every gas stop or what ever to play in what ever snow they could find. Long sharp icicles were a novelty to these California girls as well. So they became great, though short-lived toys.
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I MISS the South. My father was born and raised in Little Rock, ARK. We used to travel back to Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas ALL THE TIME. Following your blog, makes me home sick for those long ago trips.
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