Road trip: day two Saturday, October 17, 2009

We left Dickson, Tennessee at 8:05 am. It was about 43 degrees and cloudy. Lots of trucks on Hwy 40 at this hour on a Saturday. Tall and thick forest lined both sides of the road just as it had in Virginia. We crossed the edge of Kentucky Lake early in the day. Looked to be the most narrow part here. Sun and blue sky in every direction - finally. Saw our first cotton fields. The trees were mostly green today as more and more were evergreen opposed to deciduous.









Stopped in Memphis at 1030am – first time visit for HEZ. Went first by the Lorraine Hotel (now the National Civil Rights Museum) where Martin Luther King was shot ... then downtown by FedEx stadium and then Mud Island River Park on the Mississippi River via a monorail from the main land. Pretty chilly outside (high 40s) and people were commenting on that. Visited not only a steamboat but a monitor as well! Here is a video of the Island.

Here is a photo and a video of the scale Mississippi River at the museum.

Got back on the road around 1:30pm. Saw two instances of 18 wheelers that had crashed by jumping through the grass median and getting perpendicular with the other side of the freeway. - Very scary.

Passed through the rice fields of East Arkansas. This is a new state for HEZ. Saw the capitol building of Arkansas in Little Rock at 3:30pm. Then turned onto the Hwy 30 and south toward Texarkana.

Crossed the border between Arkansas and Texas at 6pm.

Route today: Interstate 40 to Interstate 30 for a total of 450 miles today.