Trip Planning

Dear State of Louisiana,
Why is it so freaking hard to find a decent, inexpensive hotel somewhere on 12/10 between Slidell and Lake Charles?

My go-to website for reservations is TripAdvisor. We do a lot of road trips and TripAdvisor has always helped us find a decent hotel and some local food (lest we get stuck at the dreaded Cracker Barrel). Chris is driving Daphne & I down to Houston in the xB and flying back to get the rental truck and load everything up. But the xB is not a great big comfy road trip car and my butt starts to hurt after about 6 hours of driving, so we decided to break up the trip into two days. I think that will be easier on everyone, Daphne included. There are a lot of terrible reviews for LA hotels on TripAdvisor. I think we’ve decided on a Fairfield Inn outside of Baton Rouge. Luckily it will be a long time before we have to drive through Louisiana again.

Speaking of road trips, I’m also very happy that we don’t have to drive through Arkansas anymore to get to Tulsa. Woo hoo!!!!!! I really hate Arkansas. For those of you that have never had the pleasure of driving on I40 this is pretty much what you see the entire trip through Arkansas:

Semi trucks as far as the eye can see and if I remember correctly they have to go slower than car traffic. We fly through Alabama and Mississippi and as soon as we hit Arkansas it’s just a bunch of slow trucks, traffic and accidents. I don’t think we’ve had a trip through AR recently where we haven’t been held up for at least an hour for an accident. Oh, and construction, although I think they have most of that under control now. Give me Houston-Dallas-Tulsa any day over driving through Arkansas.

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