June Trip-part 9

Day 16 - Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky

Grand children Bryce & Alyssa

As it turned out, this was to be our last day of travel. Kathy was originally going to be off work the day after we got back, but circumstances prevented that from happening and so she wanted to get back to have some time before she went back to work. We planned to visit my son (Chris) and his family in Blytheville, Arkansas and then head back to Lexington, Kentucky.
So we plotted a course southeast from West Plains and headed off cross country. In a hour or two we were there, had a nice visit with them for awhile before starting the 6 hour drive home.

The trip back home was pretty much uneventful. Right before we left I setup the GPS for our destination in Lexington and we took off to find our way. Odd thing is it took us on the back roads that I had never been before and we ended up on I-155, just west of the Mississippi river! That was a major shortcut for sure. 

Once we went across the bridge we found ourselves in Tennessee and shortly thereafter the only part of the trip which is not a freeway through the town of Union City, Tennessee. Other than a few traffic lights, this is pretty much like the rest of the trip with a 4 lane highway with slightly slower speed limits. Then before you know it, you are back in Kentucky.

We stopped and had our final trip meal at a Cracker Barrel restaurant near Calvert City on I-24. We had previously tried to find a Cracker Barrel restaurant on the trip, but this was the first time we found one at a time we were wanting to eat. I believe I had the meat loaf dinner, which was excellent, as was the service. Just can't beat this place for a uniform experience each time.

In no time at all, we found ourselves on the Western Kentucky parkway for the long stretch of road with not much to see. As we got closer to Lexington, everyone was quiet for they knew the end of our journey was near. Not much else to tell, we arrived at our destination around midnight.

After winding down from the trip, I spent the night with Jim and Melody, anticipating being picked up in the morning by Randy and Autumn, which I was. We were supposed to go to my grandson Billy's baseball game, but it was rained out. So we had lunch at La Rosa's and then I returned back home to Seymour.


A few final words to my traveling companions, my brother-in-law Jim and sisters Melody and Kathy, I just want to say that I truly enjoyed the experience, even though it may not have seemed so at the time. I love you guys and I really do look forward to doing it again some day. Just give me a chance to rest up from this trip!