We stopped in the small town of Arlington a few miles later at a local burger dive and continued our tradition of eating early into our journey each day, the food was good, the company was better, and the atmosphere was decidedly backwoods with no hint that we were only 35 minutes from Memphis!

The first checkpoint was a straight shot fifty more miles down US-70, and it was the only checkpoint of the entire event that we made it to in daylight! It was called Billy Tripp's Mindfield in Brownsville Tn. (Google it!)