We had a relatively uneventful day today. We left mid morning from Beebe, AR to head toward Houma, LA. Our show is there at the Civic Center on Friday night so we have two days to make the drive. When we got up, it was still raining and had turned a little cooler. We arrived in West Memphis, AR only a couple of hours later and the rain had stopped, temperatures were getting warmer.
We’ve been on the road now for 7 weeks and traveled a little more than 12,000 miles. We’ve been through some rough weather – snow, rain, hail, sleet, blowing winds, dust storms, tumbleweed attacks and more. It’s been 7 weeks since the truck has had a good “bath” so I stopped off at the Truck Wash in West Memphis and took some time to have the guys scrub it down. The works! – wash, aluminum polish, engine wash, underbody wash, and wax. It looks great!
Because we have two days to make this trip (and we are barely staying ahead of the storms), we decided to pull over just north of Jackson, MS for the night. It’s been a fairly uneventful day but all of that could change dramatically tonight. There are severe thunderstorms watches and tornado warnings in our area for the next few hours. The skies are turning dark but they say this area could really use the rain…and they are expecting as much as 2″ tonight.
After a few weeks of the high desert…
…we’ve gone from the beauty of New Mexico to the lush green of the South.
Tomorrow, we continue the drive south to Houma, LA. If you don’t know where that is, find New Orleans on the map…and keep going south!