We are staying the night at a Walmart parking lot in Poplar Bluff, MO. What a change! Loud pickups racing through the parking lot. Apparently there is a fire station just down the road because we heard a siren start up and in a very short time saw a fire truck and other vehicles, also with sirens blaring, going down the highway in front of the Walmart. I will have no problems sleeping, all I have to do is put my good ear on the pillow and I don't hear anything, poor Kathy won't be as lucky. She is in Walmart walking right now, trying to get a little exercise. I already walked in from the far corner of the parking lot, to get the manager's OK for an overnight.
We did not plan on driving this far today but there aren't a lot of choices on where we feel comfortable parking for the night. Once you pass one you might sometimes have to go quite a ways to find the next one, as we did.
We are a little over 400 miles from Tom & Mary Lou's. We have another 70 miles of rural (I think some will be very rural) roads to get to Logan Valley.
We initially planned on going northwest out of Nashville, up I24. We had travelled part of that last year on one of our TN trips. We also used to travel it on trips to FL, when we lived in IL. Kathy suggested that we stay on I40 west of Nashville and then head northwest, which is what we did. We got quite a surprise approximately a hundred miles west of Nashville - cotton fields. From there all the way up to here we have seen a LOT of cotton fields. Some have been harvested but most have not. There are cotton "balls" all along the roadway. If we had seen some place with decent shoulders we might have pulled off and picked up a few, we may still.
I know - lousy photo. In the far distance are what we think are cotton "bales". They are about the size of a flat bed semi-trailer. We noticed that they have different color covers on top but don't know if that is significant.
Time for a shower and almost time for bed. Good night to all and may God bless you and yours.
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