Wendy and I were hotelled up closer to the Arkansas border than I thought. I knew it would be yet another fantastic day for bicycling south. The US flag hanging nearby the hotel was still pointing southerly this morning even though the internet weather genie predicted otherwise. The sky was a deep blue with no clouds.
We came apon this 1924 vintage "Entering Arkansas" arch(Entering Missouri on flip side) on the road less traveled that we took into Arkansas.
Our original plan was to possibly find another hotel 50+ miles closer to Memphis today. We really wanted to tent outdoors one last time before we reached Memphis. We found a KOA Memphis Journey campground that would accept tents in Marion, AR just north of West Memphis. The only snag was it would take 95mi of pedaling to and alot of help from the wind to reach it. Our navigation devices seemed intent on auto routing us down any washboard gravel roads they could add to the route so we ditched the digital devices for once and used common sense dead reconning with simpler maps to get us back on a fast course.
