DALE BUMPERS WHITE RIVER NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE, OR REALLY, THE ARKANSAS FLOOD.
Day 177 – We were up by 7:10 this morning, 40 degrees and sunny. There were lots of birds out & the kitties were all excited. Rob went out to take pictures, but the birds were quite skittish, and most were having no part of it. Then when the cats were back to relaxing on the heated pads, they were not skittish, and he got some pictures of them.
Dark-Eyed Junco, Merrisach Lake Park, Tichnor, AR
ARKANSAS, SPRING IS STARTING TO ARRIVE.
Day 176 – Beginning of Week 26. We got up at 8 a.m. this morning, 49 degrees and still raining off & on. We departed at 10:30 a.m., heading southeast to Merrisach Lake near Tichnor, AR – a campground we stayed at in 2017. But first we stopped at the health food store in Russellville and got some supplies.
191 miles
HOLLA BEND NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE.
Day 175 – It started raining during the night and continued raining on & off for most of the day, We were up at 7:35 & 8:10 a.m., 44 degrees, light rain. A group of black vultures flew in and held court right in front of the RV. The cats were aghast.
Black Vultures, Old Post Road Park, Russelville, AR
Day 63 – We took a morning bike ride because rain was threatening and we wanted to make sure we fit it in. We rode thru the loops of the campground and over to one of the dams built nearby. Our first priority of the day, though, was to find a place to get a large sheet of Plexiglass out here in the middle of almost nowhere. Rob located all the hardware stores/home stores in a 50 mile radius of the campground and started making phone calls. We found a store in Stuttgart, AR, about an hour away. We fed the girls and headed out, traveling through farmlands (rice is a major crop here) on small roads by tiny towns. We discovered that Stuttgart, AR is a decent-sized city and rice is KING.
Apparently Stuttgart, AR is famous for rice production and duck hunting
Day 62 – Did you ever try to find a large piece of Plexiglass to replace a broken window on Easter Sunday in a small Louisiana town when you’ve just found out your credit card has been compromised and the account is now closed due to credit card fraud?