{"id":153,"date":"2013-04-23T23:58:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T23:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2013\/?p=153"},"modified":"2015-01-01T15:29:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T15:29:54","slug":"day-7-hot-springs-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lennysride.com\/2013\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Day 7 – Hot Springs, Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"Hot$ <\/a>Out of Texas, through Oklahoma & settled in at the KOA in Hot Springs, Arkansas.\u00a0 I was outside at my ice chest desk but the bugs here are SERIOUSLY HUNGRY and I was on the menu.\u00a0 Sitting here in the tent I\u2019ve probably got 20 caterpillars on the outside.\u00a0 I was knocking them off as they dropped on but I\u2019ll just do it in the morning.\u00a0 Wow, a bird just came and ate one of them off the top of the tent, maybe I won\u2019t have that much work to do in the morning after all\u2026\u00a0 I\u2019m really glad I have such a nice tent trailer and that there is room for my chair in here.<\/p>\n

Very nice night last night in Van Horn, cool but not too cold.\u00a0 I was on the road by 0830 and stopped 80 miles down the road for breakfast at McDonald\u2019s in Ardmore, OK.\u00a0 On the way out I had an interesting conversation with a nice old man that really liked my cane.\u00a0 He said, \u201cWith a good sized walkin stick like that, you could whup a whole room full of smart asses.\u201d\u00a0 He was very nice and would have loved to stand there and talk, but I told him I needed to get down the road – he tipped his had and walked away.\u00a0 Next time I’m going to sit down and have a nice long chat.<\/p>\n

The ride out of Texas and most of the way through Oklahoma was pretty flat & straight but by the time I got into Arkansas everything got better.\u00a0 Very nice riding on US 70 so far.\u00a0 It\u2019s supposed to rain tomorrow and I don\u2019t know exactly what I\u2019m going to do but I\u2019ll most likely be doing it from inside a hotel room \u2013 hopefully before I get too wet.\u00a0 I have rain gear but would rather not break it out & I really don\u2019t want to be tent camping in the rain.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my funny story for the day.\u00a0 At the Harley dealer in Los Cruises, New Mexico I bought a little short brimmed baseball cap that I was going to try to wear when riding.\u00a0 The sun shines down through the top of my sun glasses and I wanted to see if I could remedy that situation.\u00a0 The cap worked wonderfully but I had trouble keeping it on, especially above 60 mph and if there was a crosswind.\u00a0 I could feel it slipping off and grabbed it every time but once.\u00a0 Luckily, I was on a back road and there was little to no traffic so I went back and got it.\u00a0 I made myself a safety strap with a paper clip and some fishing line so I wouldn\u2019t lose it again; and it\u2019s a good thing I did.\u00a0 When it came off I was on a busy road (almost freeway) and there would have been no going back.\u00a0 I think the people behind me must have had a good laugh.\u00a0 It’s flapping in the wind back there and I\u2019m reaching back trying to reel it in with one hand and can\u2019t get it done.\u00a0 So, I put the cruise control on and used both hands.\u00a0 The line was long enough that I just stuffed the whole thing inside my vest until I could stop and put it back on.\u00a0 I guess I could have let it flap back there \u2013 that would have been interesting for the folks behind me too.\u00a0 I’ve got a couple pictures but I’m having trouble getting them out of my phone \u2013 tomorrow…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"