Let's Hear It For Truckers
We knocked off another 351 miles so that leaves 600 miles in 3 days. That's better. We can sleep in a bit and drive about 4 hours each day. Today we traveled Illinois, Missouri and Arkansas on Interstates 57, 55, 40 and 30. The road surfaces ranged from wonderful to horrible but we didn't hit any construction, yeah!
When we hit I40 from Memphis area to Little Rock the truck traffic picked up considerably. I wondered what all the trucks were carrying and thought about how important all those truckers are. A couple of truck loads of big porkers passed us. The truck was double decked with steel grating so we could see the pigs packed in nose to tail. A couple of shiny silver tankers passed carying printing ink...one had blue, one had yellow. They'd obviously had a few spills :) We could not live our wonderful American lives without the variety of commerce that truckers move.
We were in a long line of trucks, both lanes filled, traveling about 65 mph. I got caught behind a "slomo" oversize crane towing a truck. He was going about 45. I could not get up enough speed or get enough space to pull over and pass him. Suddenly I realized that a trucker was flashing his lights at me, hanging back and giving me space to pull over and pass. Wow!!! I've never had that happen. So I flashed him thanks and he flashed me back your welcome :).
On the other hand we have the slow mergers. These folks are the bane of RVer's and truckers. We're tooling along in the right slow lane and here comes Mr. Putt Putt wanting to merge but never moving fast enough to get ahead of us and not slowing down enough to merge behind us. What dummies!! They have no ability to judge speed and don't seem to know that 30,000 pounds of vehicle is bearing down on them.
We arrived at Jb's RV Park about 4 PM. Kind of a funky park. It's south of Benton, Arkansas, easy off/on the freeway but in a heavily wooded area so it's very quiet. I'd called earlier and "Glen" said he'd save us the one spot that is satellite friendly. Seems it's the old "dump station"...a very large pull through with a clear view of the southern sky. Here's our very large site and the little pond that is just down the road.
The ratings for Jb's are not that great but for $17 and peaceful surroundings we are happy campers.