You know you're in the South when you walk outside and feel wet and it's not raining. We started out today from Van Buren, AR, the temperature wasn't bad till about 1:30. At that point it was hot even when you're cruising at 70 ish down the highway...just don't stop unless it's in the shade. I 40 between Little Rock and Memphis has road work that will result in long stop and go traffic for 12 miles. Then we encountered a semi that just sort of fell off the side of the road. It appeared that no one had serious injuries as we went by not long after the fire trucks and medic's got there. Had we taken a longer lunch we would have been in another long wait while they picked up the semi. We hit perfect timing into Memphis just before rush hour. We enjoyed the hotel pool until the thunder storm rolled in. Ken and Jerry were measuring the distance of lightning strikes to the thunder sounds, so we could enjoy every last minute in the pool. Before we exited the pool area a
wind gust blew a table and umbrella into the pool. Lucky for us we had already run to the store for dinner and beer to enjoy in our room. It looks like we will pull into Jacksonville by Saturday or Sunday at the latest.
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| A view of the storm from our hotel room |
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| Strong winds blew a table and umbrella into the pool |
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| Time to go...storm is on the way! |
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| Caught this crop duster as we were leaving a Taco Bell in Arkansas |
1 comment:
Hi Folks....am enjoying the blog and the pics of our lovely hotel pool. I have been waiting for that table and umbrella to blow into the pool. So nice to meet you all today...will check out more of the blog. From Michelle (part of Michelle & Barbara)
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