Five States, One Day

We finally got away from Red Bay, Alabama, this morning . . . although not until about 10:30. The day on the road was uneventful, but it was a pretty drive through "Five States, One Day". We left Alabama, drove through a corner of Mississippi into Tennessee, through Memphis, and across the Northeast corner of Arkansas into Missouri, where we have stopped for the night. Five States and we only traveled a little over 300 miles.

When we left Alabama, the Dogwood trees were beginning to drop their blooms and leaf out. The further North we drove, the more fresh Dogwoods we saw in the countryside and the more Redbuds we saw in bloom. It was indeed a pretty drive.

It's fascinating how much the countryside changes in such a short distance; from the flowered woodlands of Northwest Alabama and Northeast Mississippi, through the metropolitan landscape of Memphis, passing the Mississippi River bottom lands, across the bare flat cotton fields of Northeast Arkansas, and into the Ozark Hills of Missouri . . . an interesting trip.

We have stopped for the night at the Roadrunner RV Park in West Plains, Missouri, right on our route, US 63. We will leave here in the morning and head East through Springfield, Missouri, into Kansas. We should arrive home tomorrow afternoon.