This is Arkansas. It is a good picture of country enjoyment.

Nutsy, you are as good as there already! 

Charles, don't be jealous of my godson.  By-the-way, did you do a visual inspection of that bridge?

Don, that was a great investment.  What did it cost to ship it home from Germany though?  And  what was  a Mox Nix, wig-wag turn signal?  I guess I never had the pleasure of playing in a Volkswagen.  My sister-in-law, also named Barbara, bought one when she graduated from college and toured Europe.  Her daddy had one bought for her and waiting for her to pick up when she got there. She toured for several months, I think, shipped it home and drove it for years.

Don, that was a fancy, hand-operated? turn signal.  I guess it saved getting your arm wet?

Harold Gene, it is up around Letona.  Actually you go through Letona and turn on some Church Rd, travel around the country road for a good distance and then you are at this place.  Sorry description, I know, but it has been years since I went up there. 

Anita, was that before or after that big long convertible that we blogged about earlier?  Perhaps you have heard of Bluff Hole which was, I believe, at Letona.  You dived off the cliffs, swam and had a great time at the swimming hole.  Right?

Harold Gene, Slippery Rock was on the same creek.  My awful experience was this.  I taught school and some of my high school students were telling about what fun they'd had floating canoes down from Slippery Rock to Bluff Hole.  I knew my boys would enjoy that.  So I took them up with their innertubes to float down the creek.  I dropped them off and told them I'd pick them up at 5:00 at Bluff Hole.

Sometime during the day one of the boys's uncles who knew the area said that it would take all night to float down that creek.  They had no blankets, clothes and it was getting dark.  They were not at Bluff Hole at 5:00.  One crying, upset mother, Me, was absolutely frantic.  What could I do?  I bawled and squawled and thought I'd been the worst mom in the whole world.

Later on, before I was completely done in the phone rang and it was the boys.  They'd had the foresight to walk out, find a farmhouse and get warmed and nourished.  This was before cell phones, of course.  We hustled up there and picked them up and I gave a lot of thankful prayers.

Anita, it was a pretty scary afternoon. 

Don, I need to get on googlemaps now and see just how far that creek was from one point to the other.  We can be much more careful in our planning now.  Can you even imagine a mother doing that now.  In fact a mother wouldn't even drive that far without a cell phone and wouldn't drop kids off without a cell phone each!  We've become a bunch of wimps, haven't we?

Carol, join the rest of us wimps as I just commented above.  BTW, that girl who is on the ads on featured blogs looks a lot like you.  It is not you, is it?

James, the Bug probably is safe. It's when the big semi trucks with heavy loads approach that you get worried....bad worried.