Little Rock, Arkansas

We enjoyed our time in North Little Rock, Arkansas.  Stayed in a downtown RV Park right on the Arkansas River.  We kayaked on the river a couple of times as the boat ramp was right outside of the park grounds.  Since there is a dam up river, the water was great with little current.  There was also 17 miles of bike trails we enjoyed, that took us across the river to Little Rock and then back across the river back to North Little Rock.  At first the noise from the freeways was a little much, but within a couple of days we were use to it and enjoying the location.

RV Park from the River

Razorback Submarine - took from the kayaks.  

We enjoyed going to the MacArthur Museum.  The building was built in 1840 and was the birthplace of General MacArthur.  

We also went to watch the sunset from the "big dam bridge".  It is the longest US pedestrian and bike bridge (4,226 feet) spanning the Arkansas River atop the Murray Dam, and is also a lock.

The view at night was also great as they kept changing the colors of the bridges at night.

On Tuesday it was raining so we went to the Clinton Presidential museum and the highlight of the  visit was the Chihuly exhibit throughout the museum.

Wednesday it was still raining so we drove to Benton for Lexie's spa day.  She is so patient on bath days and is such a pleasure to work with.  I love self wash pet locations!!!

And of course, here is how great she looked after her bath.  We took this at the West Mountain loop in the Hot Springs National Park along with her side kick Miss Kyna.  

We spent all day Thursday in the Hot Springs National Park.  

Location to fill water jugs with spring water.  

We toured the National Park Visitor Center which was a great museum of the Fordyce Bathhouse.  

Bath House Row - many of these are still open to the public for spas, soaks, massages, etc.

Hot Springs pool coming out of the ground
at 143 degrees.

We also toured the Arlington Hotel.

We then went up in the Hot Springs Mountain Tower which had great views.  

Promenade building which was the old Army Navy Hospital, where
they did rehab utilizing the hot springs.  Now it is used as
the Federal Career Training Facility.  

And lastly before heading back to North Little Rock we stopped and enjoyed world famous barbecue from McClards Bar B Q.  

On Friday we moved onto Texarkana, Texas.  We only spent three nights,  enjoying driving around the historic downtown district, visiting a Texas winery called Red Road Winery (finally found good wines again as our motorhome stock of Washington wines was dwindling down) and enjoyed driving around the Wright Patman Lake.

Site at Shady Pines RV Park in Texarkana

View from site - great little pond filled with fish.

As always, we saw a lot in the state of Arkansas but there are still places we would like to come back and visit such as; Ozarks, Buffalo River Natl Park and Crystal Bridges Art Museum.  

On Monday, Nov. 10 we are heading to our first Thousand Trails campground on this trip,  to Lake Tawakoni near Point, TX.