On our way to Texas for the winter

In Elkhart, TX.  Click the "

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Finally have WiFi so can upload photos.  My Verizon account seems to eat up the data fast so haven't written on here for a while.

 Going south near St. Joseph, MO saw trees just starting to turn colors.

We stayed just north of Missouri/Arkansas line at a Passport America RV Park and Phyllis' cousin Don Runyan and his wife Bessie drove the 15 miles or so from Gravett, AR and we went out to eat.  This is Bessie with Phyllis.

And here is Lynn with Don

Though the gas price has come down quite a bit in last few weeks, the diesel just can't seem to follow it.

This was somewhere in Arkansas

We stayed 2 nights in back yard at Everett & Bonnie Uphoff in Heber Springs, AR.

Ate at their Wednesday night church supper.
Phyllis & Bonnie

Everett and Lynn

Stopped in Batesville, Arkansas at a huge fabric store where Bonnie & Phyllis bought quite a lot of fabric which we are taking down to Kenwood RV for their Sew & Share program.

 After the fabric shop we went to the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas and they had a lot of buildings with craftsmen working in each place.

Think this was the leather shop.  There were probably more than a dozen shops working.  I am only showing a few here.  Many more pictures on my Picasa Album.

This gal was coloring copper by heat.  She was working with butterflies at the time.  Amazing how she could get different colors out by holding the torch close or further away; dipping the copper in cold water at the right time, etc.

This lady was making items by melting glass.

After we got back to Uphoff's the ladies sorted out the fabric and we loaded it in our truck.  One piece not shown here was a large roll of batting (30" across by 7 feet long).

Next morning, just after we had breakfast rolls with Bonnie & Everett, their daughter came by and we had a nice visit with her.
We had visited their other daughter who lives in town the evening before, but I guess I didn't get my camera out.  Hard to imagine.

On Friday we left Heber Springs and drove to Little Rock, AR where we spent several hours at the Clinton Presidential Library

Very interesting library with timeline of the 8 years he was in office as well as many exhibits of accomplishments.  At right is the desk in the Oval Office that he used.  It had been made from wood from a shipwreck, one of only 3 made that way.

We stayed one night in a Passport America RV Park near Texarkana, TX on Friday night and then headed southwest.  Arrived at Russ & Krista Heuer's a little after 3 pm.  At left is Clay Heuer and Haley Heuer.

They had been working at cleaning up an area and had a lot of wood to burn.  They invited a lot of friends in for Saturday afternoon weenie-roast and pumpkin carving.  They had a good turnout.

Russ helping his boy Clay with his pumpkin

Haley keeping warm their new dog Doug.

The winner of the pumpkin carving contest.

Lots of fun was had.  Nice day, though the cool north wind bothered until near dark.

    Roasting weenies.

Russ, entertaining everyone by driving in huge circles around their place with their big 4-wheeler.

After dark the warm fire was welcome.










This morning Russ and Krista fixed a big breakfast.  Today the sun is out and another nice day.  After a game of Mexican Dominoes, Shy is off to softball practice and the rest are off to shopping while I am catching up on the blog in our trailer sitting in their back yard.

Will head south on Monday morning.

I have put up all our photos on this trip from Clarinda to La Feria on my Picasa Albums  Click Here
to see them.
More later, Lynn