DFT 24 - Day 1 and 2- On the Road Again

-

 

First things first - I’m typing from the iPad. I type fast and I don’t proofread. We are constantly moving and I barley have time to type. So if you don’t like to read things with errors - keeping moving this is not the blog for you 😉

We’ve been trying to get to New Mexico since 2020. But we all know Covid happened. Then we were going to come in 2022 - but Charlotte happened 🤣. So here we are in 2024. 

We left last Friday and seriously haven’t stopped until now. So now that we are settled for a few days I’m going to try to crank out a few posts for my half dozen loyal followers that enjoy our travels 😜

Of course we had to wait for football practice to be over on Friday before we left town but we were able to leave around lunchtime to start our drive to Memphis. I personally had never been to Memphis. I only remember driving by it on the way to Texas when I was a kid but I now understand why my college friends from Memphis never went home. You hit Nashville and you are like okay this is awesome we will be there in no time.  But that drive from Nashville to Memphis feels like an eternity. 

We finally made it to Memphis about 7pm. Checked in to our hotel and met up with Blair and Nicholas for dinner at Wiseacre. And Blair being the sweet person she is bought us a dozen doughnuts from Gibson Doughnuts to have for breakfast the next morning.  





Day 2’s goal was to make it to Oklahoma City by night fall - with a couple stops along the way. 

This coffee was excellent and needed a picture to remember it. 



Our first NPS Geek Stop was to Little Rock Central High School. We were surprised to learn that it is still a functioning high school. So because of that the things you could do there were limited. It was also really hot outside - so we didn’t stick around for very long. 







After Little Rock we drove to Fort Smith. IT WAS SO HOT!!!!! We got there an hour before they closed. Did as many of their indoor activities as possible. And the ranger told EG to do as much as the junior ranger program as she had time to do. It was seriously too hot to do any outside activity. 



We were suppose to be staying in our rooftop tent outside of Oklahoma City that night but the low was suppose to only be 86 - so we opted for a hotel instead. 

Other than my coffee in Memphis our food choices on day 2 were not great. We went to a sandwich shop in Little Rock called Jimmy’s it had great reviews but was just Meh. Then we tried to get appetizer at a place in Fort Smith called Bricktown - service there was questionable. Lastly, when we got into Oklahoma City we decided to try Whataburger - not going to lie I don’t see what all the hype is about 🤷🏻‍♀️

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

DFT25 - Montana

-
Image
  DFT25 officially began last Saturday. This is a bit of a different trip than we are used to. Since Daniel was officially named the Head Football Coach we didn’t think we had the time to drive like we normally would. So we FLEW! And instead of camping we are staying in AirBNBs.   This is how you know I don’t fly often. It had been a few weeks since I had looked at our flight. Daniel had asked me the weekend before if I thought we should drive to Nashville and grab a cheap hotel room on Friday evening and I said No I didn’t want to do that. But on Friday I had myself convinced that our flight was at 11:50am and that we would be late to the airport. So I decided we did indeed need to go Friday night. I hurried and finished packing and we got on the road to Nashville. At the 407 exit I decided to check my email again. Apparently our flight was at 1:50. I had 11:50 in my mind because that’s what time we needed to be at the airport. I also decided to start the check in process in ...
Read more

DFT25 - Glacier part 2

-
Image
 Saturday was reserved for spending time in the St. Mary and Many Glacier area of the park. We started the day driving across the Going to the Sun road. Stopped at the visitors center in St. Mary and watched the video on the park. Then we had lunch at Johnsons. It was part of the main reason I wanted to go to that side of the park. When Daniel and I were there in 2016 we had their famous Huckleberry Ice Cream pie and were so excited for the girls to have it. Unfortunately they weren’t serving dessert at lunch ☹️. But we did have a huckleberry cream fizz and huckleberry lemonade to drink 🤷🏻‍♀️ Then we drove on up to Many Glacier. Several of the trails are closed due to snow and bear activity. We walked as far around the lake as we could go before we had to turn around. We did finally have our family picture made in front of the sign! Then for dinner we stopped at the Sunflower Cafe for BBQ and it was sooooo good! I’ve figured out that most of the restaurants are tied to a resort o...
Read more

DFT 25 - Montana - Glacier NP

-
Image
Glacier now has a timed entry system. And the pass go up for sale 90 days before your trip or at 7pm the night before you want to enter. 3 months ago I was able to get a permit for all our days but not always the earliest times. So we have had to plan around what time we can get into the park.   Wednesday we didn’t have a pass until 1pm. So we started the morning on the Northwest Side at the place called Polebridge. We were able to visit the Mercantile and get a famous Huckleberry Bear Claw. The Polebridge Mercantile had been in business since….and is one of the most iconic buildings in Montana. We hiked the Covey Meadow Loop in the North Fork Area of the park. Then headed back down for our 1pm park entry to the Going to the Sun Road. We drove all the way up to Logan Pass. EG kept saying she didn’t think it was real and she was actual seeing a projection 😂. When we came back down we stopped to let the girls swim in Lake McDonald. Then we had dinner and ice cream in Apgar Village...
Read more