Since leaving Joplin yesterday around noontime we have been traveling Rte. 71 through Arkansas. This mornings portion of that route particularly from Ft. Smith to Texarkana was a typical Arkansas two lane mountain road with many tight curves and grades through the Quachita Mountains and Quachita National Forest.
At Mena, AR we had memories of a trip many years ago that we took with Jo's mom and dad. That trip was the four of us and using their pop-up tent camper we had traveled from Springfield, MO through Texas to Carlsbad Caverns and then on to the Big Bend National Park along the Rio Grande river. Then we cut across southern Texas to Texarkana and up Rte. 71 toward home. We stopped for the night near Mena, AR at the Queen Wilhelmena State Park which is on top of one of the tallest mountain in Arkansas. The campground had a petting zoo and our alarm clock the next morning was the braying of a couple of donkeys.
Tonight we are in Shreveport, LA and tomorrow will get us to Galveston Bay, TX and then we will sit still for a few days and enjoy the area.
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