#ooc

La Quintas is fairly reasonable, too. Yes.

And Austin would be out of our way. I will suggest La Quintas to my dad.

there's one in Dallas, which is en route

Little Rock...

True. But uhm... Dallas Traffic.. ah who am I kidding, the whole thing is going to be construction. I hate life.

La Quinta = Free WiFi and mil discounts.

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Memphis...

Any chance he goes through KC? *Grin*

well, that's the northern route...

nope

Louisville, st louis, but south of KC

Hah, no KC

KFC maybe

also, if you can, take the southern route. Avoid OK like the plague

Dare I ask what's bad about OK?

St Louis is worth stopping in. City Museum. *NOD*

OK has a lot of native american reservations. The highway passes through them.

Toll, toll, toll, toll

Afraid we won't be doing much sigh sseeing, Shady, getting there fast as we can without killing ourselves, and back quickly without wrecking is our priority.

Oh..yuck. Okay

Lots of tolls, few options to stop, few places to stay

Fair enough. *grin*

I'm trying to look at this as a grand adventure... but I'm afraid it's my inner sluagh with a hermit legacy that's rising up. "Go out...into the light WHY? What's the light ever done for me?"

I did a road trip from bloomington IN to ABQ, NM

Ok was the worst

Ha!

TX is apparently lousy with la Quintas. They're everywhere!

Good

Is your dad able to split driving duties?

He's a better driver than I am,, though he's getting on in years

That'll help.

Still, smart to maybe take an hour or two off if possible

Oh yes, at least stop for a lunch or something.

Nod Safe is better than fast, but fast is up there. 🙂

Well, that too - dogs will make stops a whole thing

True.

YES.

but I mean switching off drivers, stay more alert

the world needs more lerts

TX is brutal, too - long stretches of nothing

I remember.

My great road trip was solo, and OK and TX were tough

I was an Air Force brat in Austin. The GREEN part of the state... and it still felt like you couldn't get PAROLED out of those roads

(it was to be a trip to CA, but... I made it to ABQ. Poor, poor little Ford))

She died about 14 miles out of ABQ. Memorial day weekend. At least it was before I hit the mojave?

Oh dear. Clem is this close to turning Alexis into a frog

She was a good car. Got me through grad school. And PRETTY. The Zx2s were very sporty.

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