Parked On The Banks Of The Missisippi in Arkansas

We are in West Memphis, Arkansas at Tom Sawyer's RV park on the Mississippi river in route to Bastrop. Very humid here. We are watching the barges on the Mississippi. We went from winter in Elkhart, IN on Wednesday to sunny and warm in Effingham, IL on Thursday to here in Arkansas on Friday. There is so much variation in topography, climate and culture within a day's drive.

Forest River factory, Elkhart, IN

In route from Wisconsin to the Forest River factory in Indiana, we had to drive through Chicago. Even Sunday traffic was bad; and it was expensive. We paid about $40 in tolls to drive the interstates around Chicago. We spent three days at the Forest River factory getting some of the same repairs redone that took one month getting done in Tuscon a few months ago. We got a tour of the Forest River factory and saw coaches in every stage of assembly. Its cold in Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. The last few days reminds us of the East Coast near Philadelphia; from the cold weather, types of trees, road conditions, types of vehicles and construction. We left Indiana this morning in route to Southern California via Bastrop, TX.

Wisconsin Dells

We are enjoying peak Fall foliage, the first since leaving the East coast in 2005.