Hot Springs Arkansas
We arrived in Hot Springs on Wednesday, August 13th from Keatchi, LA.  We are camped at Brady Mountain State Park.  This is a park where you only have electricity at your site so you have to use your own water and holding tank until you get ready to leave.  We always seek a site with trees for shade and this one is so shady we can't get any satellite reception.  We are in the woods but by the lake.

Creme Puff on Lake Ouachita

John Summey, one of my Arizona State buddies, tells me my paragraphs are too long so I'm going to try and shorten them.

On Thursday we went to the National Park which is very large but includes a part of downtown Hot Springs. We toured the baths and soaked for about an hour and a half.  Very relaxing just like a hot tub.  The waters are heated in the earth and come out in springs and they are captured by a row of bath houses.  The temperature of the water coming out of the earth is about 140 degrees but the bath houses waters are a little over 100 degrees.

Lib enjoying a Hot Springs hot bath!
Today we played golf at a course that was once a horse track in the early 1900s.  Essex Park was built a few miles out of town and patrons would come by rail. The word is the local downtown businessmen didn't like it being so far out so they built a track close to town.  By coincidence Essex Park burned to the ground the day before the new park was to open.  Sounds like House of Cards, eh?

Essex Park is not a golfer's course but it was fun and has a lot of history...and water!

We are off to swim in the lake with Maggie this afternoon.  Maggie seems to be enjoying camping but she sleeps a lot.  I probably will too if I can make it to my 90s.

Really enjoying reading the new Paul Finebaum book (high literature for Alabamians).  Thank you French and Carolyn for the birthday present!

We leave here on Sunday for Ft. Smith to visit my former student, Cliff Scott and his new bride.  Then we are off to Tulsa to see Dennis and Jan and hopefully find some of my other old fraternity brothers!