Breakfast at the Shelby Forest General Store. Another guest sits at our table to chat us up. He's a local.
Due to Southern Hospitality, when we go to pay our bill, we find it's all taken care of. The person at the counter tells us "You'll find Southern Hospitality abounds everywhere". Even our unrefrigerated cheddar cheese (yes, we got brave and decided to try it), chips, and Bob's porcupine quill bobber ("It's a Southern Thing") were included in our unknown benefactor's generosity.
We try to enter our next destination, Mountain View, Arkansas, into our GPS. The GPS won't set the time of arrival. It turns out we entered the abbreviation for Alaska instead of Arkansas. It's a good thing we realized it before we headed North instead of West.
What a surprise to see rice paddies on US 64. The farmers formed berms to create ditches for irrigation. It's pretty dry out here.
Bob says: "Instead of being pissed off because I'm behind a poky RV, I am the poky RV."
HAIKU: Sharp turn in the road
Flip flops flying across the room
Bald Knob the next town.
FUNNY PLACE NAMES: Jimmy Driftwood Road
Tinkle Creek Road
PeeDee, AR
Bee Branch, AR
Poteete, AR
Mountain View, AR, pop 2876 is in the foothills of the Ozark Mountains.
Hospital the size of our Convenient Care Center in Ithaca has it's own heliport.
In the evening, music in the square. People from NB come to pick and sing bluegrass and gospel. It's a giant jam session.
We eat The Big Pig Salad which includes broccoli, BBQ pork, lettuce, tomato, BBQ sauce and Ranch Dressing, accompanied by fried green tomatoes. Even Bob likes them.
HOW WE ENTERTAIN OURSELVES ON THE ROAD: Road Kill Cups - try to aim the car at the cup and run over it.
Seventeen motorcycles ride into town to hear the music. What a scene!
A six-foot tall Mormon woman sits behind us and starts telling Bob how she is estranged from her father. Her daughter sings beautifully. We wonder if they have left the Church due to discomfort with bigamy in their circle.
The nickname for Mountain View is Stone Country. There are giant boulders in people's yards. All the public buildings seem to be made from the same stone. It looks like Jerusalem Stone.
Later that evening we go down the road to the Gospel Opry. A group of people do this twice a week. They play guitar, mandolin, banjo and fiddle and sing gospel songs. White people!
FUNNY SIGNS: Barns, Farms and Dirt Work
Best Folk Music in the Arkansas
Hillbilly Plumbers: Y'all Just Give Us a Call
Bob's Good Junk
Peg's Little Shop with Lots of Stuff
Crooked and Steep Next 1 1/2 Mile
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