2 days, roughly 22 hours of driving and about 1200 miles down. It's been a long ride, but the time has passed well. Today we left Memphis in the shadow of the Pyramid and headed west into Arkansas. My last journey through Arkansas was rough. Literally. This drive was relatively bump-free and scenic. It's amazing how much more of the country you see when you're not the only one in the car!
The Tour de BBQ rolled on into two states today. For lunch we stopped at Rick's Rib House in Fort Smith, Arkansas. While I didn't get the ribs, which looked great, I did have a great pulled pork and chopped brisket sandwich with sweet potato fries. I've never had chopped brisket before and it was excellent.
Our next destination was Oklahoma City. We rolled into town about 4PM and decided to check out their interesting downtown area called Bricktown with one of Mike's friends. It was a cool area complete with a AAA baseball stadium and was withing walking distance to the OKC Thunder's arena. After a short walking tour, we settled in to Earl's Rib Palace. The Ribs at Earl's were excellent and had a wonderful dry rub followed up with a tasty tomato sauce. I also tried the brisket which was wonderful. Clearly brisket is the meat of choice for BBQ in the Oklahoma/Texas area and they really do it well.
Tomorrow, we're driving on to Albuquerque (a short 4 hour drive) and tooling around town a bit. I've heard good things about the city, so it should be fun. I also dug my camera out of the bottom of my bag, so hopefully I'll get some good pictures from here on out.
Mike's quote of the day is, "Amarillo is one giant strip-mall" down I40...and in the dark it seems pretty accurate. We'll see how it looks in the morning. For now, it'll work just fine as a place to rest and recharge for the night.
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