Riding Arkansas

I stopped in Commerce and spent the evening with David and Betina Zavanut and left on Saturday with them to drive up to Oklahoma where there were going to camp and search for crystals. I continued on to Glenwood and spend the night in a hotel for a change from the Vixen. Sunday I met up with Joe in Helena and unloaded the bike and we headed south and camped at the confluence of the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers. We thought the weather was heading away from us, but instead it came on with lightning, thunder, wind and rain which confined us to our tents early in the evening. Two miles south of us the wind took down quite a few limbs and trees and five miles north of us they had golf ball sized hail. So we got off lucky.

We rode around southeastern Arkansas visiting museums and such and had lunch with Ann Rowe in Keo, Arkansas camping along a river or lake wherever possible.














After visiting Mena and Queen Wilhelmina in the western part of the state, we arrived Wednesday evening at Mount Magazine resort and decided to spoil ourselves. We enjoyed an evening with a couple from Oklahoma city celebrating their 20th wedding anniversary.

A Vixen here, a Vixen...

It was an easy drive from Flagstaff to Bourne, Texas for the Annual Vixen Owner's Association, the 25th anniversary of my 1986 model. It was a three day event with breakfast and dinner catered, technical sessions, and a dance evening. The most interesting for me was the technical stuff and seeing what everyone else has done to their Vixen, followed closely by meeting all of the fun people from the states, Canada and one from Amsterdam.


That is Pete on the right, the guy that I bought my Vixen from.

I also went over to Kerrville and visited with Ron and Chris Bradley, friends from La Ventana.















After leaving for Arkansas on Friday, I spent the evening and next morning with David, Cynthia's brother, and Betina Zavanut on their intriguing homestead/studio/farm in Commerce, Texas. In interesting and enjoyable couple!

Tomorrow, I hook up with my brother Joe from Nashville in Helena, MS.

Pickin in the Pines

The festival was as good as usual, I think this was my fourth time there out of the six years that it has been held. The highlights were camping, cooking and goofing off with Jeff and Bob, and the close up performances of Sam Bush as well as a group of young women harmonizing. We didn't go to or pay for the main stage, but just hung out in the jam sessions in the campground and went to the workshops. Susan came by on Saturday with more beer and ice and joined us for a workshop. Creighton, Kim and the Prescott gang had their usual contingent of pickers and singers.

I left Sunday morning for San Antonio and made it here to Clovis, New Mexico and checked into a motel for a needed shower and shave.

Vixen away!

This is the new to me Vixen motor home that I bought in Napa last month and then went to Burning Man with it. I am leaving tomorrow for the Pickin in the Pines Blue Grass Festival in Flagstaff and then heading east on Sunday. Go to www.vixenrv.org to see the story behind this unusual motor home. the bike is an '06 Harley Sportster and that is my house in the background.