Little Rock, AR
Today went fine. We hit the road around 7am and checked into a hotel just outside Little Rock, AK at 9:45pm. Tennessee took forever to get through, staying on I-40W the whole way. We ended up driving through several intermittent bands of extremely heavy rain. I could see the haze down the road, and it would go from dry roads to torrential downpour in the span of ~15 seconds. Visibility would cut down to a single vague outline of a car in front of you, and the whole scene would dissolve into an angry sheet of plaster gray.
It was the kind of sudden change that can cause a truck to hydroplane directly in front of you, do two 360 degree spins over all 3 lanes of the highway before swinging wide into the shoulder ditch and facing the wrong way.
Just like the truck in front of us. Yeah.
Here’s an idea: when such bad weather descends upon you, you probably shouldn’t go the posted speed limit of 70mph when you’re in an old creaky truck with balding tires. Good thing I had cut my speed down to 45 mph and was keeping a safe distance away.
Anyway, we’re doing well. We are going to push to Amarillo, TX for tomorrow. 600 miles.