Made our SP by 1200hrs leaving central Texas to Texarcana. Used the Dallas I 20 loop past Mesquite to Texarcana. Not bad because we hit the traffic when I wanted too. The bridge over Levon lake East out of Dallas was a raging bitch. Bridge construction had the right lanes merging left first then at the end they merged lanes from left ti right. If your easy on 30 out of Dallas stay in the left lanes going in. When you pass the first merge shift to the right and watch out for assholes. Do t even think about going through during quitting time. Leaving Early AM. Figured we’d make Mena AK for breakfast. There’s a greasy spoon we want to check out. Then work our way up through the quachitas to Joplin and East for the home stretch. Been a rough few days. Mrs BCB spent a lot of time with her momma and cleaning the house. I cut the fields, did the heavy lifting outside, and tore down most of the gently used hospice equipment she used to move dad around in his last few months. Put some of it...
