Greetings to everyone!
Our time in Southern Indiana was uneventful and we received
clean bills of health from our doctors and don’t go back to any of them for a
year. The colors of the trees were
beautiful which pictures don’t really show.
We did try to go to Harvest Homecoming in New Albany on Sunday during
our stay but there was a forecast of high winds causing the festival to be
canceled for the day. This decision was
made for the safety of the public but caused the various organizations to lose
projected revenue. Oh well, you can’t
fight Mother Nature!
After our stay at Charlestown State Park, we moved back to
Diamond Caverns for a few days. We
celebrated Pat’s birthday and our anniversary by going out to eat at Applebee’s
in Glasgow, KY. Our original plan was to
leave on Sunday, October 21. However, we
had planned to have the truck serviced in Bowling Green but forgot to do that
until the weekend. Of course, the Chevy
dealer was closed and we had to wait until Monday. That is one of the nice things about this
lifestyle—we can make changes as needed since we don’t have to be someplace by
a specific date (except when it pertains to doctors). So Pat headed out early on Monday morning to
be the first in line for the service department. He succeeded and got back to the RV Park by
8:30. While he was gone, I got the
trailer ready for our move—put things away, put dish satellite down, fastened
TV (we strap it in place so it doesn’t move as we roll down the road), and
unhooked the water. Then all we had to
do when he got back was to pull the slides in and hook up the truck. We were on the road by about 9:30 headed to
our overnight stop in Tennessee.
We stopped at Memphis East Campground which was not a very
good place. It was OK for an overnight
stop but that is about all. We were
under a tree and couldn’t connect to satellite.
The manual over-the-air antenna worked until we tried to put it
down. The arms of it got caught in the
tree branches so I had to climb up on the roof to pull the branches away from
the antenna while Pat cranked it down.
We were lucky it didn’t break. We
were glad to leave that park!
Next destination was Tar Camp Park on the Arkansas River
south of Little Rock. This is a Corp of
Engineer park with campsites that back up to the river. Probably one of the nicest parks we have ever
stayed at with a really low rate of $9.50 a night (senior rate is half of the
full nightly price). We have electric
and water but not full hook-up so we do have to conserve our waste water. These pictures tell the story:
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| Our Site at Tar Camp Park overlooking the Arkansas River |
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| Part of Nature Walk at Tar Camp Park |
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| Sunrise over the Arkansas River |
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| Nice gravel patio with covered table! |
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| Barge going down the Arkansas River |
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| Barge Tug |
The dogs are not all that fond of this park because the
grass has burrs that stick to their feet.
We have to check feet, including ours, every time we come in and pull
off the burrs. Duke especially does not
like that experience and he usually says ouch in dog language. The first few days were quite warm with temps
in the 80’s but a cold front came through last night and the temps fell to a high
today in the 50’s with rain. Our
neighbors told us about a restaurant in town called the Mammoth Orange that serves really good
hamburgers. We decided to try it and
looking at it from the outside there was no way we would have stopped if not
for the recommendation. I am glad we had
the recommendation—it apparently is an old standby in the town of Redfield!
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| The Mammoth Orange!! |
Thursday, we did the tourist thing and drove into Little
Rock to visit the Clinton Library. We
enjoyed it very much and found it to be the best presidential library that we
have visited. I was glad to be able to
refresh my memory on the accomplishments of President Clinton during his eight
years in office.
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| William J Clinton Library |
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| Pedestrian Bridge |
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| Clinton's Limo |
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| Replica of cabinet room |
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| Replica of Oval Office |
We also visited the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military
History. This is a small museum
consisting of military memorabilia housed in the historic Arsenal Building
where MacArthur was born. Outside the
museum is a Korean War Memorial.
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| Jeep used in World War II |
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| Display at MacArthur Museum |
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| Korean War Memorial |
After our tourist stops, we decided to find Texas Roadhouse
to have a nice lunch to celebrate my birthday.
We found it but it was not open until the dinner hour—bummer! We had several other stops to make and
figured we could find another restaurant somewhere. On our way to Home Depot and Sam’s Club, we
found and Applebee’s and had a nice leisurely lunch.
This about brings us up-to-date. We have two more days here and then we move
on to Texas. We will make one overnight
stop on Sunday and then finally arrive back at Lake Conroe in Willis, Texas on
Monday. Then our work begins as we
unload the RV and move back into our cottage!
Looking forward to staying in one place for a while!!
EASY LIVING!!
