Day 4 Sunday
Sadly Day 4 was rather uneventful. The day cleared us through Arkansas, a quick lunch in Arephlidea and a trip to Texarkana. Fun to say but really kinda uneventful in riding stories. Just more highway.
Points of note are the girls at the gas station telling Rachel her riding helmet was “realll purty” and passing over the Mississippi river bridge. But sadly not much else.
We didn’t come close to making it to Pine Bluff so a visit to the lake was out and being 100’s of miles off our schedule thoughts of off highway riding where not possible. We did however decide that Austin wasn’t going to happen and in hindsight that worked out since they got a few inches of rain that day and riding in a downpour is less than enjoyable on the bike. Rachel’s dad was kind enough to give us the heads up and we Austin was finalized as not happenin.
Once we agreed on heading just west instead south we attempted to ride some backroads in texas & ArKansas but fiddling with the gps proved useless since it was taking us to missisippi instead of texas. \
Also I missed a turn and we drove about 40 minutes out of the way.
We mapped out a road that brought us further west towards New Mexico and went with it. Finally settled on the Hampton Inn in Paris, Tx. Tried to get some local fair for dinner but settled on pizza from dominos and off to bed we went. This room had a tub which actually worked (unlike the one from the night before). Prices a bit high (I think said and done higher than grand canyon) but the soak was nice and best of all we avoided the rain.
Since this was Sunday Night Breaking bad season finally was on the TV and at least we were able to finish up the series we’d been following this year. (Rachel slept through it)
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