Four quick states and a "grizzly" park

Our little corner of Grizzly's RV Park

It was another beautiful day on the road and with the change from Daylight Savings Time and a cross into the Central Time Zone we arrived at our next destination well ahead of my schedule. We passed through Indiana, Illinois, Missouri and the northern corner of Arkansas today.

It was below freezing when we left Terre Haute this morning, but a pleasant 55 degrees when we pulled into Grizzly’s RV Park in Blytheville, Arkansas today.



Joan checking out the shower room

The driving day was uneventful and again we were blessed with little or no winds to complicate the driving.

We did pass a couple of what I considered funny signs.

The first was an advertising billboard for a Super 8 Motel in Illinois. The sign said little about the motel but did say it was “Award Winning.” Now, no disrespect to the Super 8 Motel folks, actually I have stayed in one of two of them in my life, but I can’t imagine what kind of award a Super 8 Motel could possibly win.

Our current location

We also saw a sign for a town called – Braggadocio – which seemed a curious name for a town considering the use of the word. According to Wikipedia (which is not always reliable)” the community was founded in 1847 and according to Robert L. Ramsay, was named for the vainglorious knight and horse thief Sir Braggadoccio, in Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queen.”

Tonight I am going to search for a local radio station that has “Tradio,” which was a program Joan and I listened to many years ago when we drove through Arkansas. It was funny because people called in with the strangest things to sell, including a “five-gallon bucket of hog slop.”

We have a short trip tomorrow to our final destination in Murfreesboro, Arkansas and I’d love me some “Tradio” to listen to on our journey.

Joan on our walk at the street sign

During our travels we have stayed in some interesting RV parks and today’s selection, as always done sight unseen and based only on Internet research is one of the more interesting ones. Most of the spaces are permanent (or semi-permanent) residents and there are only three drive-through spots for passing travelers like us.

It’s a little rough, but the beauty of this kind of travel is that once we are inside our trailer it doesn’t really matter what it looks like outside. The lady who greeted us was nice and frankly the television reception is better than the higher priced KOA we stayed in last night and the free Internet seems to be working just fine. So life is good.

We had to dewinterize the trailer, which means we have to drain the anti-freeze from all the water lines and then restart the water heater, which is always an adventure because I never remember from time-to-time which way the on-off valve is supposed to turn.

This is the sign for the motel in front of the park

But it is nice to have our own water supply for tonight.  We got to watch some football and Joan made ham steak and potatoes for dinner. She’s hinting strongly that I may have to take her out for dinner tomorrow. That is probably payback for the "hardtack" pancakes comment from last night's blog.

Mileage out: 29772

Time out: 8:40 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time)

Mileage in: 30107 (335 miles)

Time in: 1:45 p.m. (Central Standard Time)