We took a 3 day road trip through Arkansas, Oklahoma, and touched in on Missouri and Texas. We left Sunday after church and came back late Tuesday night.
Now I took a lot of pictures from a moving vehicle either as the driver or a passenger, and yes. I know that all of the pictures of the mountains are just trees, (I am looking at you, Rebecca), and the pictures are a 2/10, while viewing it in person is a 10. Highly, highly recommend seeing all of this in person. Also this was a month ago today, so I don't remember a lot of specifics except that Jared talked and made noises a lot, and it rained.
Right as we got into Missouri, we stopped on the outskirts of Branson at Table Rock State park and had lunch.
One of my favorite moments in Mena, AR was we arrived at Buffalo River Canyon, and Jared goes OH! We can climb the tower! I said you climb the tower and I'll go to the lookout. He lets go of my hand, I turn around, and he was pouting on the grass. One thing that I love about traveling with Jared, is he is a lot like me. I like to ride around and just look. While already on a back country road, he turned down another country road, and we ended up on a switchback. Also maybe stopped in an unapproved area to take pictures halfway down a sinking mountainside with pretty flowers. Again, driving down the road, I can't remember the name of it, but it said "Lake something Resort". So we roll up in there, and it is was abandoned. There were former restaurants, an arcade, apartments, single houses, a store, a post office, a church, and a large recreational area. No people. Lots and lots of concrete. We rolled up on a really old cemetery. I remember being in Eureka Springs and getting turned around for 90 minutes. We got home late and didn't have time to eat anywhere, so we ate sandwiches from the cooler :) When we got back from like 13 hours of driving, the car had a bad spot on the tire, possibly from driving through river bottoms. No worries. On the day we had to come home, we got up early, headed to the tire place, and for real spent hours there. We got there when they opened, but there was only one tech until 11, and that's about the time they started on it. No worries, though. I talked to every one that was sitting next to us until they moved somewhere else :) We hit the road, and headed towards Oklahoma. We rode the ridge below, and weaved in and out of Oklahoma and Arkansas. At the top of the mountainous ridge, we decided to stop for a picnic. Y'all. There was a train. And I got to be the conductor.
When we were leaving, we saw a resort with a lookout and a Lover's Leap trail.
We just kept riding the ridge. I think we topped out around 2,600 feet. We stopped at every lookout :)
And of course...
I took over 2,000 pictures and about 100 videos, but they're all pretty much the same. Jared and I sang a little. We are nothing, if not entertaining.
I leave you with Jared, walking across the floor.
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