Spring has returned and so has the tourist traffic in my neighborhood. Since I live three blocks from malfunction junction with no other escape route, it is time to get out of the rat race for a while. What better place to begin than north Arkansas. I always said that I would save Arkansas for when I get old .. well guess what! It would be a shame to deprive oneself any longer of the beauty of the Ozarks in northern Arkansas and southern Missouri so I decided to catch up with the WINs and enjoy a litte kayaking and comraderie in more peaceful surroundings. It was a very wise decision! The weather in early May here is often quite nice but we caught a windy day which kept the kayak off the little lake even though I had spot 19 right on the water! What better place to stop heading north than Petit Jean State Park. The intention was to travel further but a snap decision on the side of the road changed those plans. That is the beauty of traveling in a small vehicle. Kay from New York was caravaning with me.
We hiked to the Cedar Falls overlook. Kay ventured a little further downhill. Had she not lost her shoe in a crevice at the overlook we might have done more hiking.
We looked for the heiroglyphics in the rock house but didn't find them this time.
We ventured to the turtle rocks, aptly named for their resemblance to turtles.
It was nice to have someone along that did want to see Rockefeller's farm and Santa Gertrudis cattle. From Petit Jean it was time to travel further north to Mountain View. Kay from New York had little clue what the Ozark Mountains looked like as we drove in a heavy fog and mist most of the way.
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