Thursday, July 2, 2009

Day 10 - Ft. Smith to Desloge, MO


Departed Ft. Smith at 8:45 - Humid and 84° F. Camping near the river in that weather is a little different than Arizona! It's almost like living in ... Iowa.

We met Steve's niece for lunch in Bentonville. She used to be a blond, so it was a shock to see somebody else.

As we've said before, interstates are the pits. And this day was no different. We don't think we've seen as many trucks as on this day's travel. We believe more than half the traffic is freight. What would we do if the trucks stopped??? A small construction project (one side of the road for only a 100'), tied up traffic for about 45 minutes. The delay was caused, in no small part, to people refusing to merge until the last possible moment.

We found a nice city park with swimming pool in Cuba, MO. This is where we had our dinner sandwich. Very nice. We hope the city parks continue to make themselves available.

At Donna's parents today we worked. Donna has been washing and ironing (and helping Steve). Steve has been caulking the roof and trying to provide support under the shower to eliminate further plastic flex. Donna was successful; hoping Steve was, too.

Tomorrow morning it's on to Jim and Linda's place with a stop at Costco in St. Louis for some supplies (the grape kind).

Miles Driven: 398
Travel Time: 7.9 hours
MPG: 20.5
Fuel: $52.25 (20.9 gal @ $2.50/gal)

Camping Cost in Ft. Smith was $36 for two night.

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