Day fourteen Wednesday 6/18/2025.
Woodstock VA to Lebanon TN
539 miles
Waved as we went by multiple Inzane city Roanoke. Waved as we went by the not yet opened Virginia Buc-ee's. Stopped at the first Teneessee Buc-ee's because of course we did...
Wanted Knoxville in my rearview mirror before we stopped for the night. Pushed through the heat and made it almost to Nashville. Chose to stop east of Nashville, glad we did some bad thunderstorms came through shortly after we got settled in our room.
Crystal Methany and the rest of her family in the next room were nice enough and invited us to join their party. We politely declined, they quieted down before 10PM so all was well...
Evidently there was a bit of a party atmosphere in the whole motel we were at, although it wasn't hung upside down so not sure if it was a sign or just someone left a pineapple out because it seemed the thing to do at the time...
Not much else to this day, just butts in seats and miles grinded out. Hot, blazing sun then rain and thunderstorms.
Day fifteen Thursday 6/19/2025.
Lebanon TN to Hope Arkansas
483 miles
From my rant on social media about this day:
Hey Arkansas (And any other state still doing this stupid crap ), having different speed limits for trucks and everyone else makes your roads LESS safe, not more safe!
I40 and I30 have been a nightmare of one rolling roadblock after another most of today... Ugh...
Anyway, we're close enough to home I seriously considered pushing through. A younger and dumber me would have, but as Clint says....
So stopped for the night in Hope Arkansas.
(And yes, I know no one that can change the stupid Arkansas law will ever read my post. Thank you for coming to my TED Rant...
But yeah... Nashville, Memphis, West Memphis, Little Rock... Endless trucks. Trucks doing 10 under the limit being passed by trucks going 9.99 under the limit. Rinse and repeat. Over. And over. And over.
I usually do superslab on long trips, but might just do highways and back roads through Arkansas at least or anywhere I40 is involved... That day just sucked.
How this day started:
Few hours later and it was dry roads, blue skies, HOT, humid hot and HOT...
Day sixteen Friday 6/20/2025.
Hope Arkansas to Home sweet home (Rowlett, TX)
190 miles
Was tempted to take a brief detour in Hope and go relieve myself on the brithplace of a former President of the USA but elected to let that dog lie, for now and just get home. And get home we did. We were home before lunch.
No pics but the dogs were VERY happy we were home. The siblings were kinda excited, as was the spousal unit. The cats really didn't care and the snake hissed a little which I don't know if that means he's happy, upset, sad, hungry or what (I avoid the snake generally.)
KK wasted no time continuing the legacy of her siblings and decorating her room with the raffle and 50/50 tickets from Inzane...
Big sister Kali came up from her base (Which is once again officially FORT HOOD!), my parents came over, and we had a quiet(ish) delayed 14th birthday party for the triplets...
(Kali set up a pinata for the triplets)
...and then some tree trimmers a few blocks away brought down a tree into the main power lines giving us a 12 hour power outage. So much for sleeping in my own bed with the AC running full blast, but was tired enough I just slept in the heat anyway...
Back to work two days now, brain still re-congealing. Give me another week or two and I'll be ready to go again!
...So where's Inzane 2026 gonna be again? I need to start route planning!
