This morning we said goodbye to our Texas friends. After 57 days on the road, we are ready to head for home. We will visit our NC & SC family and friends later in the fall and not at the end of this trip as originally planned. Since we enjoyed Carlsbad Caverns so much and Mammoth Caves is on the way home, we hope to take one of the tours there later this week.

As we headed east in Texas we noticed a difference in the landscape and vegetation. It was greener, there were more trees and the trees were taller. We continued to see oil wells, a fracking plant and windmill farms. As we came up a small hill we there was a windmill right alongside the road. (It was just one of many, but the rest were much further away.) At a distance, it’s hard to see how large they are, but this was so close that we could get a true sense of their immensity. Further along the way we passed an 18 wheeler carrying just one windmill blade on what appeared to be a 50 foot flatbed trailer.

As Peggy had never been in Louisiana, we took a number of back country roads east to get to Kilgore, TX where we picked up I20 to Shreveport, Louisiana. From there, we proceeded north on back country roads to Arkadelphia. Now Peggy can say she has been in all the states in the lower 48 except Mississippi plus Alaska.

The day passed without much of interest other than the ever changing scenery. About 6 PM we opted to call it a day and found lodging in the small town of Arkadelphia, Arkansas.

Interesting signs for the day: Whiskey Hill Rd and an Arkansas town called Evening Shade.