The map drill is really easy today! Get back on I-20 west and continue to Louisiana exit 112 - West Monroe. That's it! 338 miles, 45.8 gals., 7.3 MPG.
Stopped a little early today so we could watch the Oklahoma - UNC basketball game. Wanted to see the once and future national players of the year compete. About as expected.
The drive started out in cold (45), cloudy, windy weather and got better all day (except the wind) and ended with sunshine, warmth (75) and just a light breeze. Nice change.
Alabama and Mississippi provided mostly rolling hills with wooded scenery on both sides of the highway -- almost like driving through a tree canyon. Someone turned off the redbud and wisteria switch almost as soon as we got on the road. They were replaced with a thousand shades of gray and green as the trees here are a couple weeks advanced from those were in just a few miles to the north -- and more dogwoods. Here's a picture of our most common sight today.......
When we crossed the Mississippi into Louisiana, poof! no more hills -- or woodlands. Just flat, flat, flat! Crop fields, and pastureland. Easy driving, but not very visually stimulating.
A quick thanks to friend Dave Lineback, who has been in the blog business since at least early 2006 with his Sunset Ridge - Life on the Blue Ridge Mountains in Alleghany County North Carolina blog. I wrote to Dave asking for help with making links on my page "live", i. e., so you can click on them and go somewhere.
Most folks I know would just send me a link to the Blogspot Help page and tell me to go read the answer I need. Not Dave, he took the time to send me detailed instructions complete with illustrations. You can test his (and my) effectiveness by clicking on the Sunset Ridge link above -- if it works you will go to a really interesting reading experience.
Tomorrow -- On to Texas!
Hope everyone of you is well and happy!
MMG and DDG
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