Singin' with Willie

We are finally on the road again. We travelled all of two hours the first day to Searcy and had a fun visit with my daughter and her family. After a trip to Fox for Leon's family reunion we will head east. We plan to stop in Florence, AL; Lake Sidney Lanier in Georgia; Rock Hill, SC; Charleston, SC; Savannah, Ga; Tybee Island, Ga; and Jekyll Island, GA. After that -- who knows?? We are open to suggestions. You can ride along in the right lane while we mosey down the backroads on our other blog.

Leon has switched to singing "Hear that lonesome whistle" as the trains rolled through town all night long. I heard nothing! The Elks has a nice place for us to park in Searcy with electricity and they even have a swimming pool. We might have to return in the summer.

Little Rock Food Truck Festival

Bicycle shopping led us to Little Rock so we stopped downtown at the Food Truck Festival on Main Street.

The first order of business was to check the progress of the Arkansas - Texas A&M game!

Greg Dee and Leon seem to be happy to have found a vegetarian option!

Philly cheese without the cheese .. think what that could have been with cheese!

There were perhaps 10 food trucks there offering everything from fried snickers to Thai food.

Greg Dee stopped eating long enough to give a KARK weather report. I gave him a four and a one!

I might have bought a hot dog from this lady but we already had used our food tickets and I did not want to go stand in line to buy more.

It is hard to tell but above the Grills on Wheels lettering are 2 tv's. Nice! Overall, I was disappointed with the festival because there was little more than food trucks. It would have been nice to have lots of arts and crafts booths and other forms of entertainment which could have made for a really nice festival. Perhaps things picked up later in the day.

Had Kay been in the office this day she could have joined us, but it was a Saturday!

After a trip to Sherwood the mission was accomplished.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

We were quite surprised on our morning walk at Garvan Gardens. They begin decorating for Christmas in mid September. Here comes the fish!

I guess when you decorate the woods you need a large ladder. This is not one that I would want to climb.

Even with the Christmas lights twinkling we had some fall azaleas blooming.

The candy canes are up and many of the little houses. Still there is much to be done.

Arkansas mosquitoes can be quite a reckoning force.

Lovely little summer plants were still blooming and soon I bet the place will be overflowing with mums.

Progress on the bonzai house seems slow but I think it will be worth the wait. Garvan Gardens is just a first class operation and a marvelous place for a morning stroll.