A new to us route

Today's drive was from Alma, AR, near Fort Smith, to Shreveport, LA.

I thought we would be heading down US-71 all the way as we have traveled in the past.  Ms Navi took us around Fort Smith into Oklahoma and then south down US-259 to I-20 then back East to Shreveport.  She is programmed to take us on the quickest route and I believe that is what she did.  As I remember rte 71 is full of small towns with 35mph speed limits so probably take more time than the rte 259 which was mostly through rural and forested country with speed limit of 65 mph most of the way.  Except for some road construction before getting out of Fort Smith the rest of the trip was fairly good roadways and a nice drive.

We drove through light showers most of the way with wipers on intermittent but our GWF was on duty when we arrived at our campground and we were able to set up in the dry.

Tomorrow we head to Belton Lake near Temple, TX for a 10 day stay.