Day trip to Mountain View AR

We didn’t rush this morning but headed out on an area tour about 10am, after a bacon & egg breakfast at the trailer. We must remember how nice it is to have our own pre-cooked bacon in the cooler. No problem heating it up in the trailer, and much better than the commercial pre-cooked stuff. 

We headed up to the Bull Shoals, White River dam Visitors Center. Nice place for views and a browse of their gift shop. 

 

View of the nearby dam from the Visitors Center. 

Then on through Mountain Home and on down to Mountain View where we had camped last year. We had a really good lunch at a restaurant on the town square (steakburger for me, bbq beef on a bun for Cath), then checked out a music store next door.

Mountain View town square. Open-air music here sometimes.

I asked the clerk what he’d recommend for a no-talent type to learn to play a little. He recommended the Autoharp – a multi-string laptop affair where you just press a button for the different chords. The mandolin appealed more to me. Very compact and a short narrow neck, should be easier on the joints than the guitar was for Cath. Just $99 for a basic mandolin, plus some “learn to play” stuff. Didn't get one though.

It was a longer drive than we had expected, and we were happy to get back to the cg about 4pm.  28C and sunny. A nice spot to sit out and enjoy the river view.