Before long the dog and I will be shoving off for parts west. I’m not a planner. I really don’t like being boxed in so my modus operandi is this: unless I’m at a destination where I want to spend time, each evening I look at maps (usually using the ALLSTAYS app on the iPhone) and decide where my next resting place will be and then what the best route will be. Now, my preferred routes are usually quite different from most folks. I avoid major highways! Frankly there’s rarely anything to photograph on them and even if there was, it’s impossible to just stop, get out and shoot pictures. No, I travel small roads through small towns and sometimes through miles and miles of nowhere!

My first real destination (not just a waypoint where I can park for the night) is the Moab area of Utah. I figure that at my pace, it’ll take me a week to get from these Georgia mountains to there. Last year I went through Alabama, Mississippi, a bit of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona to get to Utah. And then my RV was totaled (yesterday’s news). I think this time I’ll choose a higher latitude. But not too high being that I’m a southern boy and prefer not to run the heater.

I think that on the west side of the Mississippi River I’ll do Missouri, Kansas and Colorado. Although, I really like those bath houses in Hot Springs Arkansas. On the east side it’s still a toss up. Tennessee or Kentucky. It’ll be Tennessee either way as I’ll have to go through it to get to Kentucky. But I could go straight west from Tennessee to Arkansas or Missouri.

Some of the deciding factors on this first leg of the Heartland RoadTour Rewind are sights to see, places to park overnight and people to visit.

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