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Thursday, December 19, 2013

Day 3: AR and OK


9:00am Drove from Little Rock to Ozark National Forest
12:30pm Stopped at a little store for sandwiches
1:00pm Searched for waterfalls, hiked around King's Bluff
3:00pm Drove to Springdale, AR
5:00pm Early dinner of veggie nachos
6:00pm Drove to Tulsa, OK
7:45pm Arrived in Tulsa, OK



Thoughts:
• There was snow on the ground but it was really quite warm, close to 60 degrees!
• There is not a lot to see in Arkansas, but the Black Angus cows are pretty.
• The waterfalls featured on Roadtripper.com were NOT easy to find, and we never actually even found the ones we were looking for! We happened to pass Pedestal Rocks Scenic Point and went on a 2 mile hike to find a random waterfall. 
• Arkansas has very strange names: Bucksnort (Ok this was in TN, sorry AR), Toad Suck Park, Pickle's Gap Village, Booger Hollow, Booger County.
• There are hardly any places to stop along the road throughout the Ozark National Park to look at the view. One of the only places we came across that was a scenic stopping point didn't even have any kind of view!! Silly Arkansas. You were nice to drive through, but you are a very peculiar place.
• Arkansas has tons of Mexican and Chinese restaurants, cuz that's the American way!
• Tulsa seems like a huge, bright, happenin city compared to anything we saw in Arkansas.
• Tulsa is super windy.

Car playlist:
John Mayer (He has become our morning ritual music)
Dixie Chicks
Ed Sheeran
Bonnie Rait
Audiobook - Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver



Black angus cows

Mom was all about this gnarly tree

Rolling mountains

Bout the only place with food we saw in the entire Ozark National Forest!!

Nice little wood burning stove in the middle of the store

Lots of oldschool tools and food

Entrance to the hiking trail to King's Bluff

We did the trail to the right around King's Bluff to see a waterfall

Mama Ku bein a trooper on our wet hike!

Our hike

Deer tracks! We swear we saw bear tracks too, but I think they were just from a big dog :-P

We thought we missed the waterfall and we decided to have a comical attitude about it instead of a negative one. Good thing too cuz we eventually found it!

Hide ya wife, hide ya kids

Pretty overlook

Waterfall. Not huge or spectacular, but high!

Ummm part of the rail was missing?? Made my feetsies feel a little bloodless looking down!

Mama Ku tried to get one of the waterfall coming out my mouf

Posin

Waterfall

Larger view

Other side of the overlook

Hey Mama Ku!

Pretty

Another waterfall!

We loved this moss. Felt like a carpet under our feet.

Hikin back to the car

Came across this beautiful smiling horse and he got right up on the fence for us to take this shot :)

Arkansas

Pretty sky


Gonna make our way across Oklahoma next to get to Amarillo, TX!

2 comments:

  1. I love, love, love these photos! It makes me feel like I am on this road trip with you! Photo blog for the win! Beautiful nature!

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