Yesterday we got up at a decent time, packed, and hit the road by 10:30. We then proceeded to drive for nearly 12 hours and traveled about 600 miles. We should have finished sooner but we did stop for lunch, then Arkansas had closed down two interstates that we were driving on and that added a lot of time to the trip. I hate Arkansas roads...at one point the traffic came to such a standstill that everyone was starting to get out of their cars. I took this as a bad sign and soon found out that a large portion of the interstate was closed down, so they were diverting all traffic onto the next exit that was still 2 miles ahead and that we would have to take back roads for a long time. Given that there was still 2 miles of completely stopped traffic between us and the exit, and that we were still about 2 hours from Memphis, I drove the car through the median and pulled a U-turn to go back to the previous exit. We then back-tracked through small farm roads parallel to our route and passed a lot of the merging traffic that was getting off the interstate. After about 25 miles of backroads, we finally were able to get back on.
Directly after this we hit the 2nd big storm of the day and Hannah managed to get some cool snapshots of the lightening on the horizon.
That is 100% of the barely noteworthy stuff that happened...not too much fun stuff to mention when you are just driving all day. Here are some cool pictures of lightening though!
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