Sunday morning I woke up to rain coming down…and I do mean it was coming down! It started raining Saturday and it rained all day. Here it is Sunday morning and it is still raining. We have needed some rain in this part of the country for some time and now we are getting it. Coffee is ready and Sherri and I are putting the finishing touches on our travel plans. We had a couple of cups and then started getting ready to hitch up and pull out of here.
I went outside to dump and clean some of the hoses that have been in the mud for the last couple of days. I had to take down out dead Satellite dish…that no signal catching waste of time! When you are in the boonies and trees are all around you…a signal is the last thing that you will get.
About 12:00 noon we fixed us some lunch and when we finished eating we completed our check list for moving. About 1:00 we were ready to get out on the highway and head towards Hope Arkansas. We could not wait to get to the birthplace of Bill Clinton…our idol. Yes sure nuff we passed by his birthplace and forgot to take any pictures. Sorry maybe the next time I come through here I will get some photos. I know where this town got it’s name. Someone got here and after being here a while hoped they could get out. I “Hope” none of my faithful readers are from Hope…I sure don’t mean to be ugly about this town but really it does not have much to offer.
Well before I dig a hole I cannot get out of I will move right along. We are only staying here one night so we were not to picky on where we stayed. Believe me when we got to the “Village Inn and RV Park” our plan had worked we picked a real looser RV Park. At one point in time…that point is yet to be located…this may have been the best RV park in the world. Since that point, however, it has been on a down hill slide into what we call Hell. Words cannot describe the state this Inn has fallen into. When we first arrived here we thought it was abandoned but soon noticed that some of the doors to the Inn were open and there were people actually staying there. Some rooms the curtains were blowing out the windows and and you could tell that some of the glass was broken out. The RV Park itself was not all that bad but it was not too far from falling into the same abbess the Inn was in. The sewer connections here are just out in the grass. You have to locate them by walking around and poking your toe in the ground. It was just a hole in the ground and we had to assume that this was the sewer? When Sherri saw the water connection she would not let me hook her hose to it. The connection was down in the ground and rain water had filled the hole. “Your not putting our good hose in there”, she said. As luck would have it I had enough water on board to last us one night.
Hope has one thing going for it….The largest Watermelons in the world! Now that is something to put you on the map…besides a President
We got set up and then went out to eat Mexican food at Dos Loco Gringos. They had decent food and we enjoyed it. We left there and went across the street to the Wally World to fill the truck up with diesel at $2.43. The diesel on the highway was $2.69. We finished there and then headed off to find Fair Park…which had an RV Park. We found the signs that lead us to the park an once we arrived we soon realized that the Village Inn and RV Park looked pretty good. Wow we had several more RV Parks to scope out but decided to stop while we were ahead.
Sherri will be working tomorrow until about 12:30 and then we are headed out to DeGray Lake. We will be staying there for a couple of days. I will have a full report on our location and the excitement that will follow. Wow am I over exaggerating. DeGray is a beautiful lake and Sherri and I are looking forward to seeing it together…
Somewhere in Time
7 comments:
I know what you mean about rv parks in Hope. Gina & I were going to stay there last year as we were passing through but decided that we would just move on. After wasting an hour looking at two parks we said enough. Good thing it's only for a day. Safe Travels today we'll be leaving on Wednesday heading your way.
Rollie & Gina
We stayed at that dump on our way from Texas to Md. last March. Probably the worst place we ever stayed. I had to move the rig twice to find a site where all the utilities worked. Glad it was just a one- niter.
Hope Arkansas was one of th overnight stops on our way home from the southwest this past March. Because we only use RV Parks as a last resort we didn't have to go through those Park dilemnas. We boondocked in a nice paved parking lot adjacent to a baseball diamond. Nice green grass, no people, no noise, no problem. A lady at a nearby RV park had told us we would be fine staying in the ball park for the night.....& we were. It was the only night we got some spin off rain from a bad weather front going through Kansas. RV Parks??...Bah Humbug!!!!
We too have managed to spend a night or two in those "bad" rv parks. I forget where it was at, but I refused to take the furballs out after dark...made DH do it....the place was scary enough in the daylight
Many years ago we lived in Prescott, AR which is 18 miles up HWY 67 from Hope. We went to the Catholic church in Hope as that was the nearest one in those days (1948-1952). Bill Clinton would have been a toddler in those days! Quite an experience for Irish Catholics from Chicago! :)
If you took a little time to tour the Corp of Engineers camp sites to find a good one you should have a great visit at DeGray. It should more than make up for Hope.
The Degray State Park Lodge (north side of the lake) was voted one of the finest Family resorts in the nation. Check out the restaurant if yo do not feel like cooking.
Lake DeGray fan
DeRoche ridge at the state park at Degrey is the best of the state park; and is better than the core stuff on the south side of the lake.
There is also a private park just off IH 30 there in Cato Valley if you get caught in a bind. It's pretty nice. We stayed in a lot of the parks there with one daughter graduated from Henderson and another there now. Bobby in Clarksville Tx
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