When we made it back to checkpoint #1, Lane was there as well as Randal ( The Silver Buick, BangShift) so we hung out for a while and talked. When we finally headed out of Hot Springs, and jumped on US 30, then under Little Rock, and onto I-40, it was dark, getting late, and we had 170 miles left to grind out!
Boone was quiet, the traffic was moving around us, the smallblock was singing away at 2900, and I just wanted real estate to keep moving under our tires! Hot Rod had us scheduled for a 19 mile detour off of I-40 to catch checkoint #2. At the point we exited off 40 we would be at the limit of our comfortable fuel range, so I figured we would fuel at that exit, I mean since it was an intersection of two major roads, a Gas Station was a given right? We exited onto AR33 in total darkness, absolutely nothing around, two miles later, we jumped onto US 70, again nothing. I began to feel my pulse quicken, and my stomach rise, this was not good!