Tupelo to Oklahoma City

Posted May 30th, 2008 by Graham

We hit the trail this morning. The first leg of our trip was to Oklahoma City. Easy drive! In all it took about eight hours. To my surprise we only stopped twice. Once for a late lunch, and another for more fuel. (I managed to find gasoline priced at $3.67 gal at a Pilot truck stop somewhere in Arkansas. Note: The national average at this time is almost $4.00 gal.

Our route, again, was simple. We drove up Highway 78 to Memphis to jump onto I-40 West. And that’s it! I-40 is going to be our friend for the next two days. It leads all the way out to Los Angeles.

Conditions were perfect and traffic wasn’t bad. I’m told I-40 is notorious for being heavily travelled by the big-rigs heading out west to pick up/deliver goods. There were only two times when traffic slowed to a halt and both were traffic accidents that occurred in the oncoming set of lanes. I found it interesting that voyeurism was to blame for our lane’s congestion on both occasions — folks slowing down to see what had happened.  I think that says something profound about human nature, but I’ll spare you all the lengthy philosophic debate.

We’re off to Flagstaff, Arizona tomorrow morning! A much longer drive than today– about twelve hours! Thanks for the comments and e-mails everyone. I’ll be twittering our status throughout the day over at Twitter.com/GrahamHancock