Last week we took a short trip to eastern Arkansas and, after that, over to northeast Kentucky.
Our first campground was at Village Creek State Park. The park is located on Crowley’s Ridge, a geologic anomaly of rolling hills in eastern Arkansas’s Mississippi Alluvial Plain.
With five trails totaling 7 miles, we had hoped to spend one day in the park doing some hiking.
Unfortunately, there was some kind of gnats hatching out. After taking one walk the first evening where we couldn’t get away from them, we decided to alter our plans and check out some of the other parks in the area.
The first day, we went to Parkin State Archeological Park and Jacksonport State Park. The next day, we drove over to Memphis and spent a few hours at Mud Island. I’ll be posting more on these as I get the photo gallery set up for each one.
The last evening that we were there and the next morning before we left, we didn’t have much problem with insects at all.
Our next destination was Paducah, Kentucky, so that Karen could go to the annual Paducah Quilt Show. Karen has several posts on her blog from the quilt show:
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I’m SO jealous Mike! Sounds wonderful. Sometimes those are the most fun trips, when you have to alter your course and wing it. Great adventure.
Yeah, we did like seeing those places we stopped at. Parkin was actually just a few miles away, so that was already in our plans. Unfortunately, though, the gnats were hatching out there, too, so our walk around what had been the ancient village was hurried. They weren’t biting gnats, fortunately. They just swarmed and followed you and few landed on your skin and in your hair. My tolerance for them was higher than Karen’s, but not much.
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