Woke up in Clear Springs Park outside of Texarkana (which I thought was slang for an area, but is an actual town in that area). The park was not on the Rand McNally but we woke up to this beautiful lake. I also saw a town called Arkadelphia which for some reason, I found funny

Next stop was Hot Springs National Park. Fun fact. It’s heated geothermally and therefore doesn’t stink. You can even drink the water,(and we did) but it’s 131 (avg) degrees. They even have to chill it for the pools. Another fun fact, none of the original  bath houses have any kind of outdoor facility. 700,000 gallons  go through the several different springs/day. The hot springs used to join into the creek but mixed with some sewage from the town it got stinky so they buried it under the road. It’s now a closed circuit with little contamination. Most of the indoor pictures are from the visitor center which does not operate as a bath house anymore but was pretty fancy at one time. Only a few of the bath houses still operate as bath houses. Ringo got to have lunch with us in the old bathhouse converted to a brewery.

We were going to try to make it to Natchez trace State Park but we’re stuck on 40, sitting still for the past 1.5 hours. Kinda wish I’d gone into the spa. At least my hours of sitting still would have been relaxing.