Hampton Inn Russellville

So I know I haven't written in a long time, and now it's time that I leave Arkansas. I just wanted to give a summary and bring this trip to an end.
Arkansas was a very different experience for me. I finally started meeting people and hanging out with people about 2 to 3 months working here. I also met Sara, my neighbor in October. We hung ...

Welllll helllooooo! So I've been getting quite a bit of grief about not keeping this journal up to date. But in all reality, I haven't been doing too terribly much. I work about 25 minutes away from where I live, so I go to work, come home, play with my puppy and go to bed to start it over again. I am still having a good time at my job, it is st...

Sunday October 11th

When we arrived the rain stopped long enough for us to hike down a couple of the trails. With more rain and dropping temperatures in the forecast, we jumped at the chance to hike to Rock House Cave and Cedar Creek. The trails are rocky and wooded, with sections along the creek and up into the hills. The Rock House Ca...

Friday October 9, 2009

Rain. Rain. Rain.

We checked in at the park entrance and the host said that the lake was rising and he expected it to add another 4 feet of depth shortly. It stopped raining for a little while so we took a cold damp bike ride and surveyed the area around the campground. The boat ramp, fishing pier, roadwa...

It has been years and years that I have wanted to be at this most amazing ranch.

Andy has joined me in the curiosity of how this organization does its work. We arrived in the afternoon and went straight to the Visitor's Center to check in. We met John and he set us up with an RV site with full hookups for $15/night. John then changed h...

Yay, kept ahead of the cold front from Canada that brought rain to the north of I-40 and big, old, dark clouds overhead. I avoided the threat of gusty 40 mph winds. And the route to the east of OKC is more like New England with hillier, forested terrain and real rivers and lakes, so the north winds were not as bad as yesterday's gusts. This is f...

It's a short trip down Highway 79 to I40 which I follow through Memphis and across the mighty Mississippi into Arkansas. As I cross the border into Arkansas, the sky is looking very dark ahead of me so I pull off at the Arkansas Welcome Center just over the border to put the waterproof liners in my riding suit. It starts to rain as I'm putting e...

The Day One plan was to drive to Hot Springs, AR but they were booked - a Beauty Pageant was in town! We had to move along to Russellville, AR arriving around midnight. We missed a portion of the Ouachita National Park but should see some today. We made a stop in the dark park and I was amazed at how loud the cicadas were...I have never heard su...

Fayetteville was our staging point for the Ozark Mountains. Way back when, when the government was handing out (Indian) land in lotteries and land grabs and other democratic distributions of chance, the Ozark Mountains were sort of the booby prize. They weren't already covered in grass but trees, they were fairly remote and up mountains (actuall...

Day 331 Monday 25/09/05 Memphis - Little Rock - Hot Springs Hurricane Rita has passed but has made Tennessee quite wet - so we head West into Arkansas proper. Our first stop is a tourist information centre where they sell us on how much more this lovely state has to offer. So what is Little Rock famous for????? Billy Clinton of course. We drive ...