During my trip, i went all over the mid-eastern US. I started at San Antonio Texas, and ended up at Branson Missouri, and stopped through Pine Grove Tennessee.
We drove up through Arkansas first, then we drifted on the upper-half of the Missouri-Arkansas border. Im not sure which mixture the Missouri highway department uses, but it seems to work well with Toyo tires. The hills were very beautiful, the hill-tops and valleys were coated in soft, perky green trees, and the blue sky sprinkled with mildly-sized clouds seemed to complement the scene. The roads were very curvy and steep, but soft banked and made for an easy drive @ around 25-40mph. The hills were steep, and had noticeable forces when coasting down them at 53mph. Moving further into the civilized life of Arkansas is where we actually crossed the state line into Missouri. We stayed at the 'A-Loft W Hotels', which were very nice. The staff were very kind and helpful. We took a detour to explore more of the hillside, so getting to Branson from Arkansas took about 3 hours, all while streaming Pandora. Arriving at Branson, we stopped at the Hudson Civil Air Force, where we met a few guys checked out some jets. We got to Silver Dollar City around 330PM. We went straight for Wildfire, then we went to Powder Keg, got some funnel cakes, then went to the GIANT Swing, then took pictures on Fire-In-The-Hole. If you havent been on an S&S Giant Swing, its something you need to do before you die, but more about that stuff later. After departing from Silver Dollar City, we decided to call it a day at 7PM, and went straight for the hotel. The next day(wednesday)we went to Table Rock Lake, where we fooled around on a half tank of gas, then headed up on Lake Taneycomo(its really more like a river, but whatever..),also stopping for gas twice on the way up. We ended stopping just barley on the edge of Rockaway beach. Buy this time its 245 in the afternoon, and ready to start heading back down to the hotel. Fast-forward to the next day, and we decide to stop by Tennessee to ride an Arrow ive had my eye on for a while. That costs us a whole nother day, but riding one of the few custom Arrow loopers left in the world was much worth it. The best arrow in my book is now a tie between Drachen Fire and Tennessee Tornado. So its Friday by the time we start heading home, and it was a great week. Overall, we spent about 3500 dollars, not including our time in San Antonio. It was great fun, and great views, i hope to go to Idaho next year, maybe even to Fun-Spot to ride that Arrow Shuttle Looper.