Texas, Arkansas, March 28-30

Historic hotel, Hot Springs, AR

Quapaw Bathhouse on Bathhouse Row

The gymnasium in a bathhouse that is now museum

A sign in one of the shops, Eureka Springs, AR...yowzers!

Healing waters in Eureka Springs, too....

the past tense of "get er done"...

Spent our first night on the road at Walmart in Tyler, Texas, a dry town. Wireless at MacDonalds. Destination for day 2 was Hot Springs, Arkansas, the boyhood home of Bill Clinton. We are happy to see hills after the flatness of Texas, although northern TX was quite pretty. Hot Springs is a historic town due to its mineral waters. People used to go there in the early 1900's to "take the waters", deemed to be therapeutic. There are many Bathhouses along Bathhouse row. Baseball players also came, they were heavy drinkers, and they believed that following a binge, the water would "boil out" the alcohol...today we KNOW that works with hot tubs and saunas!!! :-) Lovely town in the Ozark Mountains, nice shops and restaurants. We toured and walked around the town, there are still 2 bathhouses open, but we opted to find a home for the night and cook out as it was so warm. Found a site at the Hot Springs National Park, on the other side of the mountain. The town is actually in the park, very unusual. Great evening there, quiet, lots of birds and trees and nice neighbors. Also great hiking trails, we took a short hike before setting out for Eureka Springs on Friday morning. Several people recommended this town, even though it is out of our way, we have time. We took the scenic route, very winding, or as the sign said "crooked and narrow road ahead"! After a few hours of that we took the main highway! The trees are all budded out and there are some beautiful white and purple flowering trees. We arrived Eureka Springs, in northern Arkansas, about 5:00, parked downtown at the courthouse, narrow streets. Walked around the town, checking out menus for dinner, peeking in shops. Found the Garden Bistro, with an outdoor table and had a great meal, pasta with mushroom sauce for Ger (a restaurant and he orders vegetarian...we've come a long way!), burrito for me. The amount of food is overwhelming...the chef comes out to check on us. We ask her if she has doggy bags, oh yes, I'm a country girl, I like large portions! Lunch tomorrow! Both dinners came with salad, and steamed asparagus and snow peas...burp! Great RV park, Wanderlust. The next morning I took the trolley downtown to have a proper look in the shops, while G did some writing.