The cats were pretty happy to spend almost a week in one place. Actually, they would have been happy to stay in Georgia forever. But the time came to leave, so we loaded up the car and the cats and headed west.
Our first stop was Millington, Tennessee, northeast of Memphis. We had dinner with Sam's cousin Sam, who was in the Marines and flies his own plane (not this one, however).
Tennessee Sam offered us free accommodations at his air club, the highlights of which turned out to be: 1) free, 2) bathroom, 3) air conditioned. The negatives are perhaps obvious, and include the fact that it's a very old building, probably built in the 1950's, and a classroom used by Navy, Marine and air personnel for 60 years. But the best part was the new motion detector fluorescent lights that woke us up every time we rolled over on the mattress. Which fortunately only happened 6 or 8 times. We survived and were thankful for his generosity.
The next day we traversed the back roads to Bull Shoals and Flippin, Arkansas, home of Bull Shoals Lake, which is huge. So is the dam. In 1951, when it was built, it was the 5th largest dam in the world.
Our good friends from Tucson, Don and Linda, recently bought a wonderful house in Flippin, where Don grew up.
In his youth, Don spent several years as a river and fishing guide on the White River. So they took us out for dinner at a great old resort right on the water. This was the view from our table. Great fresh fish, too.
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Today, Linda and I had fun exploring their new yard where things grow without even being watered! So different from southern Arizona.
And they have a great view of Bull Shoals Lake, amazing even on a rainy day. So enjoyable that we decided to stay an extra day!
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