Day 47
OK City was already trying to form storms when we left this morning. We took I40 and stayed on it ALL THE WAY. Actually, you can get on it in Wilmington NC and ride all the way to Barstow CA! Again, we passed the tornado area shown on the news this week. Further east on I40 we saw several other places where the tornadoes touched down, some about 80 miles away from OKC...
The weather was nice and the landscape almost glowed green. Eastern Oklahoma is more hilly and greener than most people think. We tend to think of Oklahoma as prairie and it's not. Must have been all the cowboy movies. Arkansas has more lakes than most would think, and small mountains. And it is the birthplace WALMART! And Bill Clinton.
The interstate was in bad shape for miles, it would get better and worse. Much construction going on, some is a complete reconstruction, right down to the dirt. They tear it up and start with a new roadbed. When they do this, they close one side of the highway for miles, as it usually means replacing bridges too. It's time, you can only patch so much...and our highways are showing their age.
On one stretch, we had to switch onto the westbound lanes, so there was two-way traffic. We had TOM TOM on, not that we needed direction, but to keep us aware of how many miles we were from our destination. Suddenly the TOM TOM comes alive with 'MAKE A U-TURN!' Jim wondered what was going on with it. Then TOM TOM orders 'SHARP RIGHT!'. I figured out what was wrong....I told Jim, "TOM TOM is freaking out because it knows that we are driving along I40 on the WRONG side of the highway!" We got a good laugh out of that. I was waiting for TOM TOM to scream, 'We're all gonnna die!!'
There didn't seem to be a lot of RV places in the book I use, so I called the KOA here in North Little Rock ahead of time to reserve a spot. However, we did see quite a few on the highway signs. We know what to expect at a KOA however. After a little relaxing time and when the sun got lower we took a walk. I'd read in the KOA book that there was a walking and bicycling path along the river. Jim and I started out to find it. Right down the street was a sign *Big Dam Bridge*. Of course, that started us putting 'Big Dam' in front of everything we saw....a big dam rock, a big dam pond, a big dam pothole. Eventually we found the BIG DAM BRIDGE.
We walked across the Arkansas river on the foot and bicycle bridge that is the BIG DAM BRIDGE. It was crowded with walkers and bikers. There are miles of walking paths along the river. Nice, very, very nice!
Big Dam Ramp up to the Big Dam Bridge
Big Dam walking/biking path
BIG Dam geese...and there were plenty!
All together our little hike was over 4 1/2 miles long. Oh...and I so should NOT have made fun of 'wounded knee' back a couple of weeks ago. And I so should not have bragged that MY knees never bother me. And I so should NOT have told my sister in law that I always baby my knees in aerobics. I so should have not said those things, because whenever I open my mouth like that it bites me you know where! Yes, my right knee is hurting!
Came back to the RV, gave one of the dogs a bath...it's smelling a little 'kennellish' in here after three dogs and so many weeks in a 30 foot box. Oh, and thanks to KOA's practically all having cable TV, we got to watch Jim Cantore working himself into quite the dither over the storms in Kansas and Texas.
Tomorrow...East and South, how's that for being exact?
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