Dickson Part 2

It stopped raining at about 11:00 PM, so I looked around the perimeter of the truck stop for a place to sleep. I found a nice spot in a big grassy field beside the truck stop. The field was wet and muddy, but I managed to keep my stuff pretty mud-free. --> Saturday morning was sunny and breezy, so my tent was dry when I woke up. That's always nice because there is usually a lot of condensation on the inside and outside of the rainfly, which takes a while to dry when utilizing the combination of sponge and morning air. --> When I went back to the truck stop late in the morning, the weather turned ugly again; it got cold and rainy. Finally, in mid-afternoon, the rain stopped, so I went to the on-ramp for a couple hours. Wearing shorts, I got too cold to stay outside, so I walked back to the truck stop and changed into my train-stained jeans. Then I went back to the on-ramp for another
couple hours. No ride and I was cold, so again I went back to the truck stop, but not for long...

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Dickson TN

Friday after the cop deal, I stopped at a Kroger a few miles up the road. I got some clam chowder, peanut butter, and Chef Boy-Ar-Dee, as well as a couple other things I couldn't have prepared before my stop at REI, where I bought a pot for cooking. For the first time, I bought smallish packets of rice and instant mashed potatoes. Each packet is cheap and constitutes a filling meal; however, four servings of mashed potatoes makes for boring eats. It would be nice to have some meat with that stuff, but I can neither afford nor store meat. --> I reached I-40 a few miles later and waited by the westbound on-ramp. After waiting a couple hours, I had a ride 20 or 25 miles, to the Dickson exit, where I immediately walked to the Pilot truck stop. Shortly it began raining, then it kept raining. There was nowhere dry where I could hang out and let truckers see me, so I spent several hours
sitting in the attached Wendy's, hoping someone would ask me where I was headed. No one did...

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