Friday, October 14, 2016
What a day! Woke up
to rain. Ben had heard the thunder in
the night – me nothing. So the day
progressed. Rain as we left North Little
Rock. Rain as we passed by what we think
were fields of rice. Arkansas grows 49%
of the rice grown in the US. Rain as we
crossed the Mississippi into Tennessee.
Rain as we drove past cotton fields in west Tennessee. Rain as we stopped in Jackson at Isabella’s
Louisiana Bistro for what Jane wanted for lunch a po’boy sandwich. We both had a bowl of gumbo and half a
catfish po’boy. Very tasty. The place was a bit hard to find and maybe
not been open too long. Found it on Trip
Advisor as closest and best seafood place in Jackson that was near 140.
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| Gumbo |
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| Catfish Po'boy |
Rain as we continued on towards Nashville. We were 55
minutes from the beginning of Metro Nashville (20 miles west) to the end of
Metro Nashville (20 miles east). Bumper
to bumper traffic but mostly it kept moving.
About 10 miles after the traffic returned to normal we ran into a
parking lot between Mt. Juliet and Lebanon.
Seems 2 tractor trailers had some sort of altercation as we saw them
both hooked up to wreckers when we finally passed the site. Complicating the mess was the narrowing of I
40 from 4 lanes east to 2 lanes east.
Another hour at least moving very slowly.
Finally at 5:45 we pulled into our motel in Cookeville and
ordered a pizza. Don’t think we have
ever done that before but with two bottles of beer from the refrigerator in the
Sprinter it tasted pretty good! Since
Jane chose lunch spot it was Ben’s turn for supper and after his day driving in
rain and horrible traffic he deserved to have his food delivered to him!
At least 400 of 430 miles of today’s driving was in rain.
The only thing that made the wreck traffic somewhat tolerable was it had quit
the hard rain. The rain is now catching
up to us – here is hoping it gets blown somewhere so we do not have it again
all day tomorrow!
Looking forward to getting home tomorrow!
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