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[Today’s run: 3.4 miles]

I’m back in Mississippi now.

I drove from north-central Colorado down to central Colorado on Saturday.  On Sunday I drove down into NE New Mexico, across the panhandle of Texas and through most of Oklahoma.  I camped in the back of the pickup truck in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Henryetta, Oklahoma.  The weather was cool but my night was interrupted multiple times by people in big pickup trucks doing burnouts.

I got up just before 4 A.M. and got back on the road.

I took a bit of a new route.  At Little Rock I headed SE to Pine Bluff then on to Greenville, MS on US-65.  It was 4 lane almost all the way.  I then took US-82 east to Columbus.

I had a nice trip but it made for a lot of driving.  I had no motel expenses.  I probably put 2500 miles on the truck at approximately 25 mpg  and a fuel cost of roughly 3.40, for  a total of $340, more or less.

I have unlimited data on my cell phone so I listened to “Truth for Life” and “Grace To You” podcasts as well as regular radio stations and chapters of a Max Brand book, “The Untamed”, downloaded from Librivox.