Stephen H. Long Trail 1819 — 1820

Day 36: September 28th, 2008 Mt. Pleasant — Sikeston

Map Mt. Pleasant to Sikeston

Today I totally slept in. I hurry up to get ready. Yesterday they recommended the Pitt Grill for breakfast. This is a small family restaurant, but with pretty high prices. The food is okay but still way overpriced for this type of restaurant!

I–30, TX

After breakfast I pack my stuff together and check again how to drive today. I decide to take the route via St. Louis and passing Memphis to get around the gas shortage area. First I hit I–30.

I–30, TX and AR

I–30, Red River, AR

I–30, AR

On this one I cross the state line to Arkansas.

I–30, Little Rock, AR

I–440, Arkansas River, Little Rock, AR

I–440, Little Rock, AR

At Little Rock I first take I–440, then I–40.

In Lonoke, Arkansas, I have my first stopover to gas up.

I–40, West Memphis, AR

At West Memphis I change to I–55.

I–55, AR

Because of the bad gas with 10% Ethanol I am forced to gas up two times! At Dogwood I have my second stopover.

I–55, State Line AR and MO

I–55, State Line AR and MO

Sunset, I–55, MO

Sunset, I–55, MO

Sunset, I–55, MO

Then I cross the state line to Missouri and reach Sikeston soon. There I see a Ruby Tuesday. So I decide to finish here for today to have a chance to catch up with my video taping checking and diary. Around half past six I check in at the Motel 6. The motel was recently built and everything looks accordingly really nice. I rework my tour once again and plan to make the next day stop at Richmond.

Then I walk over for dinner. The restaurant is not really busy and the hostess does not show up for an eternity. It takes more than 5 minutes until she eventually shows up and takes me to my table — with no excuse. Instead, the service of my server is way better. However, the food size is really small, which I don’t remember this way. Okay, it is already a couple of years ago since I had dinner in a Ruby Tuesday restaurant.

Back in my motel, I first check my video taping of yesterday and today. Then I enter all my receipts in my spreadsheet. Finally I write my diary which I finish around eleven. Now I must only download the pictures of today before I am eventually able to go to bed around half past eleven. Slowly I should start to adjust to Eastern time zone!