Oklahoma Convoy to Spring BMT16
 

What is a BMT, you ask? Read all about it by following this link to the official Spring BMT16 thread in the Ark-La-Tex section.

For those who wish to caravan from the Tulsa area on Friday, April 1, let's meet for lunch at Sam & Ella's Chicken Palace (419 N Muskogee Ave, Tahlequah) at 10:30 a.m. (leave by 12:30 p.m.). Meet/departure times, location, and route are open to discussion.

Goals: :LOL: reach our destination after check-in but before sunset (so between 3pm and 7:30-ish) and not get stuck in Friday rush hour traffic in Springdale/Fayetteville/Rogers/Bentonville. :argh:

List of attendees caravanning from Tulsa (or Tahlequah):
ThaBigEasy (Ernie, 2005 New Formula Red)
DirtyBird+1 (Mike & Tom, 2000 Silverstone)
Don Miguel+1 (Mike & Monica, 2006 Laguna Blue)
dirtys2000 (Tony, 2000 Berlina Black)
humbles2k (Enrique, 2003 Spa Yellow)
JulieU (Julie, 2003 Silverstone)

Names above in bold are confirmed. Names not in bold are unconfirmed.

Option A (Turnpike Route) <-- click to see map
We could meet at the Fiesta Mart (Sinclair - has no ethanol premium fuel) at 81st & Hwy 169, take the Creek Turnpike east to the Muskogee Turnpike east to I-40 east. This is the quick (under 3 hours), boring, semi-bumpy (I-40) route.

Option B (non-Turnpike Route) <-- click to see map
Or we could meet for lunch at this neat pizza/sandwich place in Tahlequah (Sam & Ella's Chicken Palace) and then head east on Hwy 62 (one of my favorite Oklahoma roads) to Westville. Once we get to Fayetteville, depending on how much daylight we have left, we can either jump on I-49 south to I-40 east or continue east on Hwy 16 and hit up "the Big Three" (Hwy 23 a.k.a. "Pig Trail" south, Hwy 215 east, and Hwy 103 south) and then pick up I-40 east in Clarksville. The linked Google map shows the latter.

Option C (non-Turnpike Route alternative) <-- click to see map
This is much like Option B in that we meet for lunch in Tahlequah, but instead of interstate or the Big Three, we continue east on Hwy 16 to Hwy 21 south which also puts us in Clarksville. If we want to avoid the interstate altogether, we could continue east on Hwy 16 even farther and turn south on Hwy 7 instead. Hwy 7 runs right through Russellville.

Open to discussion and other options...

You can put me down as confirmed :tipwink:

You know the roads Julie, I'll give my vote to you, for me the higher the curve count the better.

Julie, will be there - either of the non turnpike routes. 12:30 and 1:00?

I'm in! Any rite is fine with me, but I like curvy roads

If we want to make it in time for ^ this, we need to plan on being there before 5pm.

So I'm thinking an early lunch at Sam & Ella's (they open at 10am according to Google) and then leave Tahlequah by 12:30. That should put us in Russellville before 5pm regardless of which route we take.

Count me in to caravan. Pizza brunch works for me. Car pool to Sam and Ella or meet there. Thanks for early departure to make social!

Are we meeting in Tahlequah or meeting before?

I was thinking that the south Tulsa people and whoever else wants to could meet at the Fiesta Mart at 81st & Hwy 169 and take the Creek Turnpike east to Hwy 51. I just really want to avoid that bumpy bridge of Hwy 412 that goes over the Verdigris River.

I vote for meeting @ Fiesta Mart. 100% gas! How about meeting @ 9:00am?

Julie:

We are thinking of joining your caravan as you pass through Fayetteville, if you decide to do routes Option B or Option C. It looks like it would take you about an hour and 10 minutes to get to the area of Fayetteville we live in. Do you still plan on leaving Tahlequah at 12:30? That would put you in our area at about 1:40 PM. We would listen up on channel 4 and just fall in behind your group. If you could let me know via this thread if that's your plan, I'd really appreciate it.

Scott & Maureen

9am at Fiesta Mart sounds good to me! If the turnpike is a problem for anyone, we can take Hwy 51 through Coweta instead of the Creek.

Cool! Yes, we will leave Tahlequah hopefully by or around 12:30. I'll email you my phone number too (or you can find it in any BMT packet), or you can look me up on Waze and I'll send you our ETA that way. We can even plan to stop and meet somewhere in Fayetteville in case we run a little early or late.

I can do 9 am. I'm lazy and that's early for me but so worth it.