The Little Missouri River & Driving to Mississippi

The Little Missouri River

Before we left Crater of Diamonds State Park in Arkansas, we hiked (1.6 mile round trip) to see the Little Missouri River.  It was a gorgeous hike through the Arkansas forest along a creek that ran into the river.

Driving to Mississippi

We got up early on day 7 and head to the interstate on our way to Mississippi.  Our route took us through some more of rural Arkansas before finding the interstate and passing through Memphis to get to Mississippi.  We stopped to get gas in a little town called Delight, AR where the attendant commented that we were “pretty durn far from home.”

Once on the interstate, we popped in an audio book, this time, Huckleberry Finn.  We were listening to Huck and Jim float down the Mississippi River as we crossed the mighty river itself.  We stopped for lunch in Memphis, where the gal serving our lunch had such a heavy drawl that I had to translate for Kristian, and she regularly referred to him as “baby.”  Then we headed southeast from Tennessee into Mississippi and down into Tupelo and arrived at our friends’ house by mid afternoon.