Arkansas--The Natural State--Day 8

Rally's over and it is off to new adventures. Starting yesterday morning the rally attendees started packing up and heading out to different parts of the country. We were no different. Around 9:30 a group of five coaches headed out of the RV Park enroute to Greers Ferry, Arkansas. Our friends, Don & Vicki Leith, have a home on Greers Ferry Lake. When they built the house they made sure they put in accommodations for their RVing friends.

As we left the park and headed north to Interstate 30 Don was in the lead with us directly behind. Don made the red lights and immediately got on the interstate. The other four coaches got caught at the lights. By the time we got up on the interstate Don was long gone and no where to be found. The plan was for him to lead us up using the back roads. By the time the rest of us reached Interstate 40 we were not sure if we should go east or west. Two of us pealed off going east and the other two went west. I immediately decided the best bet was to turn around and go west to Conway and up Highway 65, the way we normally get to their house. We were told this would take about 45 minutes longer to get there. Rod & Jean Bahnson, the only couple in the group who had never been here decided to follow me. We made our way up Highway 65 to the turn off at Bee Branch and then traveled the last 18 miles on narrow, two lane roads in the Arkansas hills. When we arrived at the house it turned out we were still the first ones here. It appeared their "short cut" through the back roads did not really take any less time. As we were unhooking our towed cars the other three coaches pulled into the neighborhood.

Don & Vicki have a beautiful home on the lake. They also own the vacant lot next door so there is plenty of room for the RV crowd. With us this time, in addition to the Bahnson's, are Bill & Kathi Corrum and Lloyd & Jerry Wood. The house has a RV pad, complete with full hookups, on each side of the house plus full hookups in the large RV garage. To accommodate all of us Don parked their rig out on the grass and ran a long extension cord out so he could keep the refrigerator operating. The Bahnson's and the Wood's are on the two RV pads. We are backed all the way into the RV garage and the Corrum's are parked directly in front of us. (Several of the neighbors have driven by very slowly checking out all this activity.) If you look very closely at the picture to the left you can see the front of our coach in the garage. Last evening we cooked steaks out on the Leith's deck and had a wonderful dinner together. Today has been a time to relax. There has been some talk about getting their Seadoo's out for some fun on the lake but that has not happened as yet.