Hot Rod could have shot us up to Texarkana, and put us right on US 30, but no...they weren't going to let us have a whiff of the big road! Just as well though, because US 371 that took us north out of Louisiana into Arkansas, was a good stretch of highway with great scenery.
Boone and I spent the better part of the drive to Prescott Arkansas, discussing Larry Larson's apparent vulnerability. Thinking this may be the year that Jeff Lutz finally gets it done. Prescott is home to a really nice 1000ft-1/8th mile facility, that I've never raced at or seen, and this trip was not going to provide that either! We turned on US 67 at this point and basically paralleled US 30 all the way to Arkadelphia. We had basically passed or ran with at least a dozen different Drag Week Competitors along the way, which tends to happen when you actually leave the track at a decent time!
Just outside of Arkadelphia, US 67 and US 30 intersected, and as is typical of these locations, it was inundated with Gas Stations, so that's where we made our first stop of the drive.