Well, its time to head out to our next stop. As usual this year, its raining and miserable driving. We're driving through some beautiful country but it all looks like this. No worry about tornadoes though.
We arrive safely, mainly due to the skill of the driver, and find the weather much improved the next day. Dragging the car behind us in the rain means that its so dirty that it needs a cleansing before we can even see out the windows never mind going for a drive.
Its a lovely campground in a river valley, just starting to show its spring colours.
Both sides of the stream are high stone cliffs covered with trees. We can lay in bed and listen to the burbling stream.
The camping area is on a level area across the stream from the entrance. The bridge we drove over looks much more rickety from this angle.
Just down the stream aways is a picturesque bridge which crosses the stream that we're camped along. Being the curious type, I asked the campground manager if they've ever had a flood here. YIKES! In 2008, the rains started in March and twice that year, the slow meandering stream roared down this narrow valley and this bridge was under water. That means, where we are currently camped was under over 30 feet of water. OMG!
But, he said, that when they knew water was rising and that solid concrete bridge I showed you was under water, the suspension bridge could be used to evacuate. This is the deck of that picturesque bridge. Would you drive a 24,000 lb RV over this? Heck, I was scared to walk over it.
The advantage of that type of flood was that it cleaned the cliff front behind the outhouse. It sits right behind our RV so its nice to know that mother nature keeps the area clean. Just kidding. Even in Arkansas they wouldn't put up with that crap. :-)
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