Chapter 1: Introduction To Roadtrips December 20, 2009

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As I wrote – I’ll make it all up! So here it comes, the first chapter:

This is the “Arkansas crew” from the roadtrip at the beginning of November. Though it was just a trip for one weekend I definitely have to write about it, because it was very nice. Basically our intention was to see colorful “Indian Summer” with trees colored in red, yellow and brown. Instead, what we found were trees with no more leaves and without any color (except gray-brown). Nevertheless, this was one of the best roadtrips I’ve ever made (just because driving along the highways in the plain midwest + perfect country/rock music mix from the 60s to present  + cool relaxed people = real roadtrip feeling)!

We arrived in Fort Smith Friday afternoon, a town close to the border to Oklahoma, and spent the evening having dinner at a Burger House with cool Rock music and tasty burgers (even more tasty than in OKC ). Then we left and bought some beers and ciders to relax in the hotel.
The next day we first visited “Fort Caffee” where German soldiers had been prisoned during the second World War. We also had a real delicious IHOP breakfast on that day, with first breakfast sausages, bacon and eggs (the original British way) followed by blueberry/strawberry/anyberry pancakes (the American way) – glorious!
By the way: We were driving a Lincoln Town Car with 6 seats (3 + 3). This is the car of which most of the stretch limousines are made of and it’s a “typische Ami Karre – weicher geht’s nicht!”

After this we began our “real” roadtrip off any interstate highway but along such small mountains:

As I mentioned before, all the leaves had been gone. However the nature in the mountains was pretty nice, a lot of trees and forests (quite a good contrast to Oklahoma):

Beside those mountains with the trees we also had green meadows in between:

Even some colored leaves were left on the trees around there:

On this day we could watch the sunset – 3 times! (By driving up a hill)

At night we arrived in Eureka Springs, which actually is a jewel of a town. It’s “different” to rest of the towns you’re used to have here in the midwest: The people are kind of mind-forward (we went to a bar were some drag queens met later on!), the city is European style (as far as an American town can be “European”) and there was also a city fest with a lot of Harley Davidson bikers and their “girls” – so we could find people on the streets (up to here this was very unusual in all the other cities we had been before in Oklahoma or Arkansas)

Finally we had great lunch the next morning is yet another “colorful” restaurant down in the basement of a building and then left to drive back to Norman, because this took a few hours. Hence, here’re some last three impressions from Eureka Springs (except third picture taken on the way home):

I can only recommend you to visit this city if you’re around there!!

So this was “only” an introduction to an American road trip, the fantastic big one should follow two weeks later in California…