September 11

Well, of course, I'm behind in my postings again. Right this minute, we are settled in the campground in Coffeyville, KS, ready to start work for Amazon.com. Tomorrow, we go to a 2 hour social in the afternoon at the warehouse. I'm not sure I'm ready to go to work, as I've heard it is hard manual labor, but, we will either make it or not...we'll certainly try real hard, because the pay is good.

After we left Memphis, we took two days to get to Fayetteville, AR to visit longtime Boomer friends, Jim and Betty Roughton. After 23 years of fulltime RV'ing, they have bought a house there. They downsized their large motorhome to a cabover camper and take short trips here and there.

Just a note for those of you who like Japanese food and sushi. We found a great restaurant in Russellville right around the corner from the Wal Mart, excellent food!

We spent a wonderful Labor Day weekend with them, they took us to an art show in the downtown area on Friday night and Saturday morning we went to the Farmer's Market. The University of Arkansas, which is right there, was having their opening night football game for the season and they figured everyone would be on hand to watch the game so decided to take us to Eureka Springs and visit the shops. Well...it was a holiday weekend and other people had the same thing in mind and that place was crowded! Despite that, we managed to find a parking place and had a nice time walking the streets even though it was downhill to the shops and uphill back to the car, but, the weather was perfect for walking, . About the weather, we've been having really hot and humid days since we've been south and when we got to their house it was more of the same. However, a nice big thunderstorm came along that night and blew all the humidity away and the next few days were cool and beautiful.

When we got back to the car, they drove us through the areas around the town and there were dozens of Victorian houses that are B&B's, if we'd been walking I would have been able to take more pictures, but, as it was, I got a picture of only one of them. They also took us to a chapel in the woods, I think it was called Thornecrown or something like that. A guy in town decided to build a chapel so everyone could come and enjoy being among the trees. The chapel is built to make you think you are sitting among the trees, it is really pretty. They also hold services there for anyone who wants to come.