Toad Suck to The Duke City

Hello loyal readers,

I made the run yesterday from AR to NM,  it was about 13 hours.   I found a new bug in Google Maps and saw three dead armadillos.  There was a guy in handcuffs in Texas being walked away from his car.  And about three cars in the ditch in Texas as there were some heavy storms at the Texas Oklahoma border.   The storms didn't last long,  but they were bad enough I tucked behind a semi with its blinkers on and slowed down.

Trivia question: what is unique about the armadillo?   Answer below.

The run was p[retry uneventful.   I started about 6:40 getting out of Clayton,  which is a bit beyond Little Rock.   Got to The Duke City about 6, but Mountain time.   Google maps had been showing my eta as being 7:30 or so,  not realizing until I crossed the border that it was in a different time zone.   I appreciate that an Eta is kind of a relative thing,  but maybe show the local zone with an asterix or something.

One other feature that I would like is for the app to show the current speed limit on the road.   In some states they are not posted very often and I don't want a ticket.   The hardware GPS systems typically show this.   Also since Maps is calculations eta it must know the speed limits all along the route. 

I got here to a cold beer and a crying mother -  but that is in the next post.

Trivia answer: the armadillo is the only animal that can contract leprosy and thus can be handy in the lab when doing research.   Probably not the best for the armadillo.