Year 2 Day 349 – “Living the Dream”. Thursday, 4/13/2023. Day 1 of 30-night KY to LA and back. Driving Science Hill, KY to Little Rock, AR. We are driving to Little Rock, Arkansas today. Left Home at 6am and 20 minutes later it is 5:20am. Traveling Southwest. This will be our first time in Arkansas. Navigation says we will be at hotel at 12:47pm. By 5:45am the sun is starting to chase our car as it rises in the east.
We have just driven by Columbia, KY where Justin’s Blueberry farm is. Can’t wait for their Blueberry harvest. They have the sweetest, largest organic blueberries. My mouth is watering thinking of biting into one. A little over an hour from our house we are in Glasgow, Kentucky. The trees have a lot greener leaves than by our house.
At 8am we pass the National Covette Museum in Bowling Green KY. That brought our conversation to sink holes in KY. YIKES, I had no idea that the county we live in has sink holes crop up. I thought this happened in Western KY. At 9:30am we crossed the Tennessee River, Kentucky Lake on the Jimmy Mann Evans Memorial Bridge on Interstate 40. This bridge is a 0.5-mile-long steel stringer, multibeam bridge.
The river is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately 652 miles long. Kentucky Lake is a major navigable reservoir along the Tennessee River. It was created in 1944 and is 160,309 acres. The lake is the largest artificial lake by surface area in the United States east of the Mississippi River, with 2,064 miles of shoreline. We have started to see a lot of cowboy hats now.
We are in Memphis at noon and crossing over the Mississippi River into Arkansas.
The Mississippi River either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. The Mississippi River is the third longest river in North America and flows 2,340 miles from beginning to end. It is also the fastest flowing River in the United States.
The drive from Science Hill, KY to Little Rock, Arkansas was kind of a boring trip. Just mostly miles and miles of highways with trees. Lots of bugs though and we certainly killed a lot with our car. In Arkansas it just turned flat with lots of fields. Also, the speed limit turned 75
and we found the rain our lawn needs. There is approximately 6.2 million acres of cropland in the state. Agriculture is the largest industry in Arkansas. Mostly rice, soybeans, wheat, corn and cotton are grown. Arkansas produces 40 percent of the country’s rice crop. The average farm size in Arkansas is 332 acres and 97% of Arkansas farms are family owned. The average farm size in Kentucky is 171 acres. The national average is 444 acres. The trees are fully green in Arkansas now. The coldest month of the year in Little Rock is January, with an average low of 34°F and high of 51°F. The drive took 8 hours and we saw miles, and miles, and miles, and miles – get my drift of mostly nothing.
We started in Pulaski County, KY and we will be spending the night in Pulaski County, AR. Hilton Garden Inn north Little Rock seems really nice. Large big room in an older hotel. Rooms have been refurbished. It is wonderful to see something besides trees and fields. There are lots of stores and restaurants around the hotel. Dorothy the Roomba was calling this afternoon for help. I forgot to stop her from cleaning. Justin will take her back home tonight.
Today’s product recommendations are for traveling by car. 1) We always carry this Igloo Playmate cooler in our back seat. She is always belted in. We carry water, lunch and snacks. We never go anywhere without it. https://amzn.to/41rWJNa 2) A first aid kit is also a necessity when you could be on the road far from a town. This is a great one. https://amzn.to/3Uyo2Ty 3) We also keep wet ones in all our vehicles. Using rest areas or eating snacks require the use of good antibacterial wipes. https://amzn.to/3UCWhJS 4) I also always keep these toilet seat paper covers in our vehicles. I hate those interstate rest area seats. Men have it so easy. Not us ladies we have to sit on those seats. Sometimes they are really wet from other people’s bodily fluids. How gross is that. These work great. Keep them in your vehicle or purse. https://amzn.to/41qjz7J
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