April 26–A long drive to Nashville

It’s Zack again. Today I awoke to having Isaac’s phone and it’s wonderful math-problem alarm clock thrown at me. We were planning on waking up at 6:00 but when I looked at the alarm (which I had heard for the first time just then) I realized we had managed to sleep until 7:00. After rushing out of bed and convincing Isaac to wake up we joined my grandparents for a breakfast of pancakes, bacon and grapefruit.

After saying our goodbyes and taking a couple of pictures with my family we drove off leaving Oklahoma in the dust. The day was a long one. I drove from my grandparents house, all the way through Arkansas, with one stop for gas, and then into Memphis, TN. There aren’t a lot of details of the day to elaborate on. Most of what we saw was the road and trees (there are a lot more here than in Utah). We passed over the Mississippi River and finally got a picture of a “Welcome to ..” sign as we entered Tennessee. We stopped in Tennessee for a lunch of turkey and cheese sandwiches.

I had driven eight hours when we got to Memphis so I was exhausted and let Isaac (who is getting much better at driving stick) drive the rest of the way to Nashville. I’m not sure if anything interesting happened on that leg of the trip; I was sleeping for the most part, but I was told that we followed “Music Highway” through miles of unimposing traffic.

The only slightly out of place even of the day was Isaac using his abilities as an eighteen-year old. He decided to buy a lottery ticket and struck gold! He won two dollars for a total profit of one dollar. I’d say 100% interest isn’t bad for absolutely no work.

Eventually we got to Nashville and found Logan and Abbey Shields apartment, where we will stay for the next couple of nights. They made us a pizza for dinner and afterwards we sat and talked about school, our future plans, and the mission field. And that was our active but steady day.

 

Interesting Observations:

We drove by the apparent home-place of both Carrie Underwood and Toby Keith (I don’t know what the name of the town was and Isaac’s asleep so I can’t ask him). If you didn’t know Arkansas and Tennessee like country music, let me be the first to warn you that they do.

We ran across some interesting Names throughout Arkansas. One particularly amusing one was “Lotawatah” which sounds just like Lot of water with an accent. It actually set a pretty good title for the rest of the drive, there was water everywhere.

Apparently Memphis decided Egypt has something interesting going on because there is a huge Pyramid downtown.