Apparently, if your seat is comfortable enough, you can sit in it for 13 hours with only a few breaks. I crossed 5 states (barely) yesterday: Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas. I made it a few hundred yards into my home state before stopping for the night. There's a La Quinta just across the border on State Line Rd. Not as nice as the Hampton Inn from last night, but it was half as much. I'll move a substantial fraction of the way back to Arkansas just by going to breakfast. I'll try not to cross back over.
Unfortunately, doing this much driving means I didn't do much stopping, and that I did precisely no sightseeing, which is too bad. I drove through some beautiful and unfamiliar country yesterday. All of it green and lush and full of life. Much of the time was spent alternating between narrow, green-walled canyons of beautiful tall trees allowed to grow close to the highway and broad lush fields of corn and soy and some horses munching on Kentucky Bluegrass. Someday it will be worth doing this drive again but stretching it out so that we can stop and see some sights.
Today is the easy part: 7 hours, Texarkana to Austin, through mostly familiar country. The colors will shift rapidly to brown and yellow as I enter the droughtier part of the state. The long familiar East Texas hills and pine forests will temporarily replace the broad, flat flood plains of Arkansas, but soon I'll return to the central plains of Texas.
I promised pictures, but I've not taken any. Maybe next time.
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