Traveling South

We left Hollister MO at about 9:30 this morning and headed to Texas.  The route through Arkansas (primarily highway 65) was quite a challenge with steep grades and sharp turns at the bottom of the hills requiring heavy braking.  There was not a flat straight stretch of highway anywhere--just up and down, left and right.  We also ran into heavy winds which pushed us around a bit.  After that, we managed to travel on interstates for only about an hour.  The highway took us through Hope, Arkansas (birthplace of Bill Clinton) and an oddly named town "Arkadelphia."  I assume someone from Philadelphia named it.  We took highway 59 south out of Texarkana into Texas.  This is an odd 4 lane highway with speed limits usually between 65 and 70 but which has driveways entering the highway and many stop lights.  The road travels through several small Texas towns which doesn't allow a high mileage day.  All in all, we travelled only 380 miles today but drove from 9:30 until 6:30.  We landed in Marshall, Texas, which is only 150 miles from our destination:  Livingston, Texas.  We are joining several other RVers for the night in a parking lot of a 24 hour Walmart Super Center.  Early day tomorrow.