As Tony and Don alluded, The Pony, just across the Mississippi River from Cape Girardeau Missouri, was checkpoint one. We had ran most of the first 125 miles of the route by ourselves, but the parking lot had quite a few other drag weekers on it when we arrived. James was impressed with Eric Yost's keg trailer, but not with riding in the rental car! He was begging to take over driving or co-driving duties in the Satellite, but Rachael and I resisted the offer.

The route put us onto I-55 south for a nice easy 70 mile run through Missouri, then we caught the I-155 to Dyersburg Tennessee, it was a really easy, smooth run, but it was still a hundred miles in a 45 year old car. As usual, the truck continued to get attention from the locals.