Day 4: Rocks

Wake up. Drain the swamp. Feed the blog. Acquire coffee and a keychain. Depart for Magazine Mountain (highest point in Arkansas).

I did not photograph the coffee.

See something shiny. Rocks and glass and crystals. Seems pretty cool. They also have keychains.

It’s weird how the most colorful stuff is visible from the road.

The railroad spikes are free. You can take them. I have 2 railroad spikes in my trunk.

Let’s go hunt some vampires or something.

Hang-glider launch? Sure!

Finally, at long last, the highest point.

Ha ha! Time for Popeye!

Not shown: Popeye does squats.

All the recent activity, combined with it being warm, means it’s time for a hotel. The plan was tomorrow, but the plan isn’t my supervisor. We check in, have a shower, and go wandering to find some food.

Crossing the road to see some building art, we find the Strange Brew Occult Shop. It’s full of interesting stuff, but we don’t want to be carrying things around, so we continue on, but make plans to come back in the morning.

In retrospect, the building art was much cooler than the shop sign.

Wrapping up the day we got pizza and a whole bunch of cider, before heading back to the hotel for real sleep.

Summary
  • Daily Distance: 318km / 198 miles
  • Total Distance: 3271km / 2032 miles
  • Keychains: 2 new, 9 total
  • Maps acquired:
    • Georgia
    • Alabama
    • Florida
    • Texas
    • Louisiana
    • Arkansas
  • Days behind live: 3

Comments

2 responses to “Day 4: Rocks”

  1. Pancake Avatar
    Pancake

    Were those crystals man made?

    Sailor Jerry is actually really good rum. Ironically far superior to Captain Morgan.

    1. wombart Avatar
      wombart

      The large things are all slag glass, which I assumed were a byproduct of starting up glass manufacturing processes or something. I just looked it up though and it’s actually a byproduct of ore processing, so that’s pretty cool.

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