Pittsburgh, PA, to Nashville, TN (September 20)
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Today, the last day of our Acadia NP trip, is also just a driving day. So we'll just cover the route we followed to get from just west of Nashville all the way home to Dallas.

From Dickson, TN, it was straight along I-40 for about 200 miles to Memphis, TN.

We reached Memphis about lunchtime, so rather than just go around town, we took the expressway into town. I just followed my nose and we eventually worked our way over to Union Avenue. I stopped at a local coffee place to see if anyone knew of a good Memphis barbecue restaurant that would be open on Sunday. We got a recommendation and went a bit further down the street and found it easily. It was actually quite good. Then all we had to do was continue along Union almost to the river where we just followed the signs to pick up I-40 west again across the Mississippi. We did make one more stop on the other side of the river to hit a Baskin-Robbins store I'd not yet been to.

Back on I-40, we just continued west/southwest to Little Rock, where we left I-40 and picked up I-30. I-30 took us all the way to Texarkana and the state line.

Finally, the last stretch of our trip- a straight shot into Dallas along I-30. We reached home in time to go out and have dinner at On the Border.

Postscript

This was a really great trip. We saw and did more than on just about any other driving trip we have taken. We drove, first of all, over 5500 miles. That, in itself, was a record (just besting our trip to Glacier NP two years ago). Secondly, we equalled our record of two countries in one trip- not so oddly, the same two countries (Canada and the United States)- but we have never before been to two countries on a purely driving trip. So that was a record, too. Finally, we set a record for the number of states we entered in a single trip (of any kind). In case you are curious, there were 22 of them: Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, (I don't count the District of Columbia), Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansas. Another way of putting it is that we traversed every state east of the Mississippi except for Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Florida.

We also did and saw so many things. We visited my sister in North Carolina and my friend in Massachusetts. We visited Montreal and Quebec City, we spent four days camping in Acadia National Park. And we visited Buffalo and Niagara Falls. All in all, this was a trip for the record books.

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	Pittsburgh, PA, to Nashville, TN (September 20)
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