Continuing the 2016 Bayou Round Up from yesterday, I saw no alligators this trip. As I headed south from Joplin on Friday morning the scenery was great. I’d never been to Arkansas before (to my knowledge), and I was enjoying the drive for awhile. Interstate driving is never my favorite except for when I need to make time. I was making time right up until the I-49 ended. Then I was frustrated by a 55mph speed limit on a road that anywhere else would be a 65mph and people in front of me intent on keeping the speed limit. Again, some scenery, some fun driving… well for 55mph. It was painstakingly slow.
After a few years of driving that road I finally got to the next section, an interstate. Fine, whatever… just let me roll! Before long I was cruising into northwestern Louisiana along I-49 again it doesn’t exist in the interim stretch from Fort Smith to Texarkana, but again I was at speed, even if it was on an interstate. The odd thing was that from Texarkana down to Shreveport it was almost deserted. It ends abruptly a few miles from joining the interstates that loop around Shrevesport, sending you down Highway 71, then through some horribly rough under construction roads.
More of the story tomorrow…
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