Tues. 6/23… (Little Rock ,
AR ) Our
last day here in Little Rock . We had no plans today so we started some
laundry in the rig. The campground
laundry room is just across the way so we did towels and sheets there to save
time. Meanwhile Rick is still trying to get a prescription sent from home and
filled on the base so he has been working on that. Those chores completed we
headed out again, this time to Target and to Sam’s Club. Rick hasn’t made
contact with any relations here yet so on the way we decided on dinner plans. Lydia had planned dinner tonight but yesterday I
was looking through some Little Rock
brochures and found restaurants in the downtown area. I thought Damgoode Pies sounded
interesting. They posted the best pizza
in Little Rock
9 years running. So we headed there and
easily found parking since we went early on a Tuesday evening. The food and the microbrewery beer were both
excellent! We will go back here
again! We stopped at a little place boasting
fried pies so we had to check it out since our experience with these little
pies (much like the little individual hostess half moon pies) in Ohio Amish
country was very positive. We each
bought one and have brought them home to eat later since we were still stuffed
from dinner. More on that to come…..
Once we got back we were in the rig making the bed and Rick and Janie
came over to say that he got hold of his Aunt Billie and were going to visit
her. Problem was Janie had just put a
load in the campground laundry so Lydia volunteered and took on that
job and they took off. We finished up
the evening watching tv and getting the rig ready for our trip tomorrow.
Wed. 6/24… (Texarkana , TX )
The drive today was 145 miles. We are now at Texarkana RV Music RV Park, in Texarkana , TX . We stayed at Sterling Crest RV Park while in
this area back in 2012 but would NOT go back to that park so we chose this one
instead. It is a few miles out of town but that is not a bad thing. The place is quiet and the people are real
nice. We found out from the manager, Reed, that the place gets it's name from a bluegrass festival they host each year. The place is definitely set up for it! We rested a bit and cooled down as
well then took off to go to the grocery store in town. We needed some corn to go with the dinner Lydia was
fixing. We returned and Lydia
got the dinner ready. She made stuffed
salmon with corn on the cob and Janie brought over the salad. We had ice cream drumsticks for dessert. Oh, yeah, I ate my apple fried pie. It was pretty good but didn’t come close to
those we had from Amish country! We walked Bailey a bit before dark and then
retired to watch tv and work on the blog.
One note – when I am not in an area to get a wireless signal the posts
don’t come as timely as I would like. I have activated my hotspot on my phone
so will use that and see how it works.
Thurs. 6/25… (Tyler ,
TX ) We left the park about 9:30am and although we
only had about 120 miles or so to drive today I noticed that we were heading
down rural roads but it turned out they were not too bad. Rick and Janie led out. I mention this because on the way we
witnessed a woman run a red light and if Rick hadn’t swerved away they would
have gotten tagged by the lady. She was even in the intersection when I went
through. The good part (besides no accident) was that a trooper was just past
us and saw it in his rear view mirror.
He whipped a u-turn and quickly lit her up. Aaahhh, it feels good to see justice once in
a while. We are now at Jellystone Park
at Whispering Pines, Tyler TX. We have
been here before when we visited Bob and Judy in 2012 and we liked this
park. Plus, its only about 1.5 miles
from their place. We got checked in and
parked and set up and Lydia
cleaned up a bit and then we drove into downtown Tyler .
We wanted to find a place for linner plus stop at Office Depot for
rubber bands and at Verizon to get some assistance. The rubber bands were to hold an inside
cabinet door that R&J tore off when they put out their slide. The hard
braking opened the door and they didn’t notice it till it was too late. Rick needed help at Verizon for his tablet
and Lydia
had a question about her email accounts.
On the way home she called her sister Judy and they came over to see the
rig and to visit for a while. They made
plans for the next couple of days. Oh, they have a lake here and Bailey wasted
no time in jumping in.
Fri. 6/26… (Tyler ,
TX ) Plans today included meeting
up with Bob and Judy for breakfast at Petty’s, a local place in Lindale, just
down the road from their house. Bob was
working on getting his smoker going. He would pass on breakfast. He was smoking
a pork butt for our dinner tonight. So
Judy went there in her car and we followed in Rick’s. The meal was excellent as we remembered from
when we were there back in 2012. Afterward,
Judy went home and we went on to Walmart to pick up some things for us and some
hickory chips which we dropped off at Bob’s.
Then we went home to rest and enjoy the pool here. This place is like a KOA park and is set up
with tons of things for the kids to do, including a nice pool. BUT, they also have an adults only pool which
we enjoyed for a few hours. After we
took Bailey down to the lake for a quick cooling off, we changed and headed
over to have dinner. Rick & Janie
brought wine to compliment the pork butt, rice, beans, and salad and apple pie
for dessert. It was a delicious meal and
we enjoyed the company as well. We
brought Bailey who made herself at home and liked Bob’s cooking too! We headed back home and Lydia started
preparing potatoes for potato salad. We are having them over tomorrow for
dinner at our place.
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