1174 October 25, 2024 Hope, Arkansas

Happy Birthday, Kyle!!!

Another early start this morning. 

We filled the RV with diesel fuel at the station adjacent to the Walmart…$2.99 per gallon…yahoo!

We left Eastland and watched the sun come up as we traveled east on 20.

We took 30E up and around Fort Worth and Dallas.  The road was very rough.  There were multiple sections of roadwork.  There was lots of Friday morning rush hour traffic.  It took two hours to get past the two cities.

We finally found a rest area and we stopped for a break.

It was my turn to drive.  I did the last portion of Texas and drove us right into Arkansas.

We stopped at the Welcome Center and looked for a place to spend the night.  We drove to Hope, Arkansas and stayed at the Fair City RV Park.  This is a large city owned park with lots of facilities.  There are baseball fields and a livestock coliseum and basketball and tennis courts and a pool and playgrounds and lots of open space. 

We parked in the shade of a big old oak tree.

I walked the park this afternoon having missed an opportunity to get out there earlier today.

We drove the Jeep to see the birthplace of Bill Clinton.  This is Hope’s claim to fame.

We had a really good dinner at Big Jake’s BBQ.

We took a ride into the downtown area.

It was nice to enough to be outside this evening. 

There is a mama cat with 4 sweet tiny kittens living in the shed nearby.  It was fun to watch the kittens romping around in the grass and fallen leaves. 

My husband is out there as I write this blog, offering the cats yogurt and sardines.