Okay loyal blog followers, you all remember that yesterday we left you in Little Rock knowing that today we were going to tour other parts of Arkansas. We started by going to Hot Springs Nat'l Park which is unique in that the park is in the city proper and has almost no scenic drives.However we managed to find the one drive before doing anything else. A view of Hot Springs from above:
The entire area reminded us of Saratoga Springs - shops and older preserved buildings in the foothills of the mountains. But walking down the main drag you have a line of luxury baths,
one of which functions as the park visitor center and allows a tour of the facility - it must have been nice to have the bucks to take advantage of 'the baths' and other amenities.
We then started on the scenic drive through the hills of Arkansas. It was very pretty and very quiet. When we got to the western end of the tour, rather then heading north, we checked the the time and mileage and we went WEST. This minor 2 hour detour enabled Harriet to set foot in OKLAHOMA - state 48 - yay. We cross the Arkansas River heading into Oklahoma.
Anyway after 300 miles of driving we wound up in Russellville, AR which is about 85 miles from Little Rock (another normal day in tour Malinak).
The entire area reminded us of Saratoga Springs - shops and older preserved buildings in the foothills of the mountains. But walking down the main drag you have a line of luxury baths,
one of which functions as the park visitor center and allows a tour of the facility - it must have been nice to have the bucks to take advantage of 'the baths' and other amenities.
We then started on the scenic drive through the hills of Arkansas. It was very pretty and very quiet. When we got to the western end of the tour, rather then heading north, we checked the the time and mileage and we went WEST. This minor 2 hour detour enabled Harriet to set foot in OKLAHOMA - state 48 - yay. We cross the Arkansas River heading into Oklahoma.
Anyway after 300 miles of driving we wound up in Russellville, AR which is about 85 miles from Little Rock (another normal day in tour Malinak).
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