Hot Springs: Our First RV Trip!
Jun. 27th, 2017 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hillarygayleThought I would share some photos of our trip to Hot Springs! Bryan spent his days at the Arkansas School for Math, Science & the Arts (ASMSA) while Ganon & I hung out at the RV, drove around Hot Springs hunting for things to improve the RV with, and played around on the free wifi (!) at KOA.
The Hot Springs KOA is an extremely nice place. It's built into the side of a hill and the campsites are terraced. There are several large pull-through sites, which is exactly what I wanted. They sent a person on a golf cart to pilot me into the spot & make sure we could reach the sewer/water/electricity hookups. The campground was super close to the downtown area; it only took 8 minutes to drive Bryan over to the school. Really it was QUITE awesome. I loved the whole experience & I feel like getting a KOA membership was a great idea.
Where there was once a heavy, small-screened CRT television, there is now an empty cabinet with a nice flat screen mounted to it. All thanks to my incredibly creative parents and my dad who just sort of happens to carry a table saw in the back of his truck. Not a joke. The empty cabinet now contains wiring for the Apple TV and any video game systems we want to bring along. My mom said we're supposed to go on vacation to "get away from that stuff," but I disagree. You go to get away from work & stress!
More pictures of the campground & our trip in here!
I can't help but think the cute little cabins would be most awesome for Mimi & Augie to join us on a trip next time!
Ganon & I went down this trail on the way back from the pool, as it really looked like it would go back toward our campsite. In fact it did...but we couldn't access our site due to a huge ditch between the trail & the campsite at the point where it came closest. Nooooo! It was still a pretty little trail though!
Our campsite! Don't you love that adorable little Airstream? We would've gone for something like that, except that we don't have vehicles that can tow something like this. Instead, it works better for us to use the motor coach itself to tow our very small cars. That way we only burn massive amounts of fuel when we're actively using the RV, and our everyday vehicles are still great on gas mileage.
Cute metal animal sculptures all over the campground!
Another trail. Next time we'll walk this one too!
More cabins!
Very pretty fishing pond with a fountain for oxygenation of the water. Cool! I failed to get a good photo of the "giant turkey chicken" as Ganon called it...it was really some breed of domestic goose I couldn't name. But he's not wrong; it did look like a giant turkey chicken.
Ganon on the road. Please notice Mr. Bark-a-lot positioned in the cup holder. "He likes to watch the road" according to Ganon.
Possibly my favorite piece of free schwag Bryan's ever gotten at a conference. HECK YEAH! LET'S SCIENCE, Y'ALL!
The Hot Springs KOA is an extremely nice place. It's built into the side of a hill and the campsites are terraced. There are several large pull-through sites, which is exactly what I wanted. They sent a person on a golf cart to pilot me into the spot & make sure we could reach the sewer/water/electricity hookups. The campground was super close to the downtown area; it only took 8 minutes to drive Bryan over to the school. Really it was QUITE awesome. I loved the whole experience & I feel like getting a KOA membership was a great idea.
Where there was once a heavy, small-screened CRT television, there is now an empty cabinet with a nice flat screen mounted to it. All thanks to my incredibly creative parents and my dad who just sort of happens to carry a table saw in the back of his truck. Not a joke. The empty cabinet now contains wiring for the Apple TV and any video game systems we want to bring along. My mom said we're supposed to go on vacation to "get away from that stuff," but I disagree. You go to get away from work & stress!
More pictures of the campground & our trip in here!
I can't help but think the cute little cabins would be most awesome for Mimi & Augie to join us on a trip next time!
Ganon & I went down this trail on the way back from the pool, as it really looked like it would go back toward our campsite. In fact it did...but we couldn't access our site due to a huge ditch between the trail & the campsite at the point where it came closest. Nooooo! It was still a pretty little trail though!
Our campsite! Don't you love that adorable little Airstream? We would've gone for something like that, except that we don't have vehicles that can tow something like this. Instead, it works better for us to use the motor coach itself to tow our very small cars. That way we only burn massive amounts of fuel when we're actively using the RV, and our everyday vehicles are still great on gas mileage.
Cute metal animal sculptures all over the campground!
Another trail. Next time we'll walk this one too!
More cabins!
Very pretty fishing pond with a fountain for oxygenation of the water. Cool! I failed to get a good photo of the "giant turkey chicken" as Ganon called it...it was really some breed of domestic goose I couldn't name. But he's not wrong; it did look like a giant turkey chicken.
Ganon on the road. Please notice Mr. Bark-a-lot positioned in the cup holder. "He likes to watch the road" according to Ganon.
Possibly my favorite piece of free schwag Bryan's ever gotten at a conference. HECK YEAH! LET'S SCIENCE, Y'ALL!
