PKRC is off to Texas!

Start time: 7:22 am

Arrival in Memphis, TN: 7:00 pm (8:00 pm Ann Arbor time)

Number of hours driven: 12ish

After clearing up some concerns about the recent weather in the Southern states, we started our journey to TX early in the AM on Saturday, April 30. Car ride consisted of sleeping, some card games, an episode of Glee, I Spy, Hang Man, and reading books. Geraldine, our GPS (named and provided by Devon's grandparents), has been an enormous help thus far, though we have found her to be a bit insistent that we stick to her route and tends to get annoyed with us when we stop for gas or food (first gas stop pictured below).

So far on the drive down we were most surprised by how high the Mississippi River has risen-- at one point, the water had overtaken an entire road. Gas prices are a lot cheaper here-- around 3.65 compared to 4.15 in Ann Arbor and 4.35 in Illinois. Weather has thus far been good, and we've only ran into a little rain and some really cool lightning when we had to cross into Arkansas for a bit before coming into Tennessee.

We stopped for the evening in Memphis, TN at a lovely Sleep Inn. Dinner was at Sonic (which was delicious), and then Meg taught Nicole, Devon, and Ashley how to play Euchre (and refreshed Kelly's memory). A game of B.S. then ensued, pictured below.

We'll start again at 8:00 tomorrow morning (after continental breakfast yay!) and will hopefully arrive at PKRC sometime late-ish tomorrow evening. Total driving time is around 10 hours, but we'll need to stop for things like milk before going to the camp so that might take a bit of time.

I will post again later, hopefully with more pictures! The scenery has not been much different from Michigan thus far (a lot of farmland), so I've not taken too many pictures of that yet.

~ Devon & the PKRC team