[Northkeep] Routes To Gulf

Adalia adalia.nyx at gmail.com
Tue Feb 28 06:21:37 PST 2012


Our first year, we did the trek down through Louisiana and immediately
swore never to do THAT again.

Now, we usually do the over to Memphis and down.  While technically some
miles longer was actually considerably shorter on time due to higher
travelling speeds.

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Kenneth Smith <ulfarnfinnson at yahoo.com>wrote:

> The route we take is down to Paris to Mt. Pleasant then down towards
> Marshal and we stop in Waskom for the night since its where my mom lives
> and just about half way to site and then the next morning I 20.  Not bad
> trip.
>
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> Sir Ulf Arnfinnson CSS LXXIX
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> From: "Niewoehner, Hugh" <Hugh.Niewoehner at flightsafety.com>
> To: "valstarr_hawkwind at yahoo.com" <valstarr_hawkwind at yahoo.com>; "
> northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org" <northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org>
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> Subject: Re: [Northkeep] Routes To Gulf
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> I-40 east from Little Rock to Memphis is the boring-ist stretch of road in
> the central U.S.  The bad part is when you enter the Memphis environs.
> Traffic is bad, there is always construction issues, etc.
>
> Done it a number of times to GW & Atlanta and really don't care for it.
> Also done the route that comes out of Vicksburg and over to Pine Bluff.
> Again fairly boring through the river bottoms and they really ought to up
> the Speed Limit but I think it's a better route than 40 through Memphis.
>
> What about Paris-Texarkana-Shreveport?  Much of the Texarkana-Shreveport
> segment is four laned.
>
> Damon
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> CC:
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> The Barony of Northkeep <northkeep at lists.ansteorra.org><mailto:
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> Greetings!
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>
>   The shortest route to Gulf, from McAlester, is down to I-20 and east
> into Louisiana. I've driven that 200ish miles to the Kilgore area, and it
> takes me four hours anyway, with all those little Texas towns to drive
> thru. When I factor inan evening travel, speed limits drop further in that
> area.
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>
>
>   Mapquest says it is 55 miles further to drive I-40 over to Little Rock,
> then on south. I can be in and maybe past Little Rock in four hours. Has
> anyone trie the I-40 route to LR then south? Was it smoother than the I-20
> way?
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>
> Thanks!
>
> Val
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