Still Back in Time, and Stopping at LaMar’s Donuts Before Coming Home

Posted on by Julia

July 29, 2026

On July 23, weleft Jeanne’s (from A Jeanne in the Kitchen) to head home. We made a detour to stop at a LaMar’s Donuts. I have missed getting LaMar’s Donuts as a special treat since we left the Denver Metro area.

If you like donuts and have never had a LaMar’s Donut, I am sad for you. No other donut even comes close. Ah, the perfect pillowy bite of the original glazed donut, such a masterpiece of delight! The new styles of donuts, while interesting and even tasty, are all about the toppings and not the basic donut.

So many people stopped in for a pickup while we ate our donuts in the restaurant. I happened to catch a time between pickups.

Then, we were on our way. I didn’t want to go through Kansas City again, so we headed towards Wichita, Kansas. We stopped to get something to eat in Wichita and decided to stay the night.

On July 24, we headed to Poplar Bluff, Missouri. This route would allow us to avoid Memphis, Tennessee. We also got to see some of the Ozarks Mountain Ridge. We drove through the Mark Twain National Forrest on our way to Poplar Buff.

We stopped at Poplar Bluff and got supper. We checked into the Comfort Inn there. The rooms smelled awful on the first floor. We tried two rooms on the first floor. The room on the third floor only had a faint sent of the odor and Bruce couldn’t pick it up, so we decided to stay. All this yuckiness to avoid paying an extra $20 for a better hotel. To be fair, we’ve never had a problem with a Comfort Inn before.

On July 25, we made the last leg of our trip. Just outside of Kenneth, Missouri, Bruce asked me to take a picture of the gas mileage. This mileage was since fill up.

That’s 55 miles per gallon!

We drove through Jackson, Tennessee then to Corinth, Mississippi. At Corinth, we switched over to US 72. US 72 almost drops us at our doorstep. We live 11 miles away from US 72. It was great to be home.

We arrived safely and found a jungle. Bruce had turned off the water before we left. After the car was unloaded, Bruce crawled under the house and turned on the water. It was raining, so I wanted to get the pepper brigade outside to soak up the rain. Of course, the rain stopped just after I got the peppers outside. I had to water all of them. I happen to get wet, moving all those peppers outside.

We unpacked the suitcases and sorted the laundry into piles. We nested the suitcases similar to nesting dolls. Once the suitcases were nested, we put the suitcases away.

We took a tour around Blackberry Homestead. We knew there would be cleanup, just not how much.

22 thoughts on “Still Back in Time, and Stopping at LaMar’s Donuts Before Coming Home”

  2. Glad you are home safe and sound! The donuts sound delicious! And 55! Sounds great – especially driving our big truck these days. We try to avoid big cities like Memphis, Nashville, Chicago – even if it’s more miles.

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  3. When I was growing up my mom would always ask to see a room before checking into a budget motel, so she could make sure it did not smell funny and make sure the bed was OK. Usually not a problem with a chain hotel!

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  6. My favorite donut is a cake donut, no frosting. My mother made them when we were growing up, and just did a slight sprinkle of sugar and cinnamon. If I do eat a glazed yeast donut, I want it plain. You were almost within hollering distance on 72! Glad you made it home okay.

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    1. They were delicious! I don’t eat donuts normally. I never thought about the names of the cities I grew up with that much. I always found the name Hot Coffee, Mississippi to be hilarious. The name of Hattiesburg, Mississippi was so romantic to me. The founder named the city after his wife.

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  8. My vote for best glazed donuts: Route 8 donuts, along – you got it – Route 8 in southern Virginia. Get there early, though – when sold out they go home. The first time I encountered them I trotted across the road from the gas station across the road, where my friend was filling the hungry beast (big red truck hauling a very long horse trailer. The second time I didn’t get there until 11AM – and they were sold out and closed. Very disappointed!

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I am a retired software solutions architect. I have been married to my husband, Bruce, for over forty years. We went full-time RVing for 3.5 years and saw much of the United States. After deciding to stop RVing, we bought a ranch house halfway up a hill on five acres. After Bruce and I talked about names for our five acres, we settled on Blackberry Homestead as a homage to the wild blackberries on the hill. We are working on creating our homestead. I love cooking and enjoy sharing recipes. I am also an artist, and I’ll share my current projects. Gardening and reading are my favorite hobbies.