Howard Johnson Hot Springs

... for public use. Over 850,000 gallons flow daily and the estimated water flow emitting into the creek was natural rainfall aout 4,000 years ago. All in all, these Hot Springs sound pretty relaxing. The bathhouses were ornately decorated with sea colored tiles and big porches. Southern stylee.<br> <br> We camped out in Gulpha Gorge Campground in the Hot Springs National Park. Sumner cooked us up a tasty Christmas Tree, Flower, and twisty swirls pasta dinner with shrimp, onions, homegrown ...

Visiting hot springs might be one of Bek's favourite things to do in the whole world, so when a town is named Hot Springs, it sparks our interest. We did an overnighter and drove from Wichita, Kansas to Hot Springs, Arkansas (State # 22, slowly getting there).<br><br> Hot Springs is a town surrounded by state parks that is built around (you guessed it) Hot Springs. This area has 46 natural hot springs and a row of bath houses ...

... the way it was back in the time. We continued to walk the street and look at the various hot springs and seeing the occasional cold spring. The temperatures of the springs varied from 62 degrees F to 142 degrees F depending on the location of the spring. There also happened to be a huge Geocache that was an earth-cache that had 6 pictures to be taken and 10 questions to be answered. Once we completed the street portion of the tour we went on the ...

Day 3 Memphis, TN to Hot Springs, AR<br><br>Today turned out to be a really good day. I can't really say what gave it away that it would be a good day but it was as I was starting to feel by about 7:30 this morning. I just had a feeling. We were up way too early in the morning and I got a running start. We headed down to the ticket center at Graceland and they started selling tickets at 8:30. We were on the 9am bus to Graceland where we were given our headset to ...

... get in a hot bath. Andy loved it!!<br><br>Arkansas rocks--- crystal mines are scattered in the hills beckoning one to come and dig through their tailings for treasure. We decided ,due to the mostly nasty weather and not really being all that into getting muddy, to go to the store. A virtual field of crystals, glass and rocks - Interesting and fun. Rocks always have me thinking about my Aunt Mama Dot. She ...

... my parents didn't even know I was in Arkansas).<br><br>The plan went off without a hitch (except for going the wrong way on a bypass once), and my family was very surprised. Luke and Jenna ate dinner with us and then kept going on their way. We stayed at the lake house until Monday afternoon, swimming and watching movies and eating burgers, then I finally headed home.<br>

We got into Hot Springs, Arkansas around noon yesterday. From the plane all you see are hills and green. Being from Miami.. that's a lot of green.<br><br>My two great aunts, Mary and Ramonita, were already waiting for us when we landed in the private airport. On the way to Mary's house all you see are tree's and randomly placed houses. We drove through "downtown" and Ramonita started complaining about the ridiculous traffic.. which was like ten cars on the road. I couldn't help but laugh ...

Lake Ouachita, Hot Springs, AR; Thursday (9/11), Friday, Saturday, Sunday Lake Ouachita is a 40,000 acre lake just west of Hot Springs Arkansas. Surrounded by State parks and public land, the area is heavily wooded and the lake sneaks in an out of hundreds of coves and bays around the lake. It has a shoreline of about 970 miles which contributes to the feeling of size and the ability to find a place away from the crowd. We don't have to worry about the crowd ...

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... I bought a shirt and a huge thing of beer. The parade's special guest was my fellow Seminole, Paulie Shore, and even though I don't think I've ever since one of his movies, it was exciting to see him. Other highlights of the Parade were the Irish belly dancers, the order of the Elvi (a bunch of random people dressed as Elvis. Not really impersonators because aside from the white suits, capes and sunglasses, they looked like normal ...