- Total miles: 5,431
- Total $ on gas: $1,528.78
- Total gallons of gas: 615.9
- Average cost/gallon: $2.48/gallon
- Average miles/gallon: 8.8
Other info (off the top of my head):
- We traveled through Florida panhandle, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, eastern half of Kansas, eastern half of Nebraska, Iowa, just a touch of Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and straight down the middle of Florida to home again.
- Visited presidential homes/libraries of Clinton, Truman, Eisenhower, Hoover, Lincoln and Polk (although closed). Also visited the birthplace of McArthur and I might as well throw in the home of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy.
- Best breakfast: Stanley's in New Orleans
- Best lunch: Des Moines Art Center
- Best dinner: Lester's at Shorty's Casino in LA
- Best camp: Oak Lake in Arkansas
- Most interesting site: Poverty Point Mounds in Louisiana
- Best evening: Being declared the euchre savant playing cards with the Apels and Hahlens.
- Best thing I brought home: creation of potter Hahlen
- My favorite museum was Fort Smith in Arkansas, although there were others. Jack liked the Prairie Museum in Holdredge NB. The Clinton Library was wonderful. We learned about terrible public policies along the Trail of Tears, Central High in Little Rock, the Civil Rights Monument in Montgomery AL. We also learned that despite it all, it's a pretty great country with wonderful people who are helpful and working hard.
- Biggest concern: empty shops and rv parks, closed gas stations and other businesses, very little traffic.
I would definitely go back to many of the places in Arkansas and spend a lot more time in Alabama. For right now it is kind of nice to be all unpacked and chilling out in front of a big TV.
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