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TRAVEL
Nebraska
Ozarks Arkansas
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Cahokia Indian Mounds, Collinsville, Illinois views over lakes. I have two lines of hoping for healing. The springs did
ancestors buried in those mountains, not help most of them.
one family in the small town of
Lavaca, just east of Fort Smith, and the In Illinois, we explored Cahokia
other in Eureka Springs, up near the Mounds, where 1,000 years ago,
Missouri border. Eureka Springs is a there was a town of nearly 20,000
fascinating little town, with buildings indigenous people living, working,
in Plaquemine, we stayed in a parish much like those in New Orleans, and trading with cultures in many
RV park on Bayou La Rose. A bayou except they are situated on steep other parts of North and Central
is like a canal but, rather than fishing hillsides with lots of stairways rather America.
boats, it mostly has fishing birds: than sidewalks. The narrow streets Our next stop was Nebraska, where
kingfishers, herons, and huge flocks wind sharply back and forth, twisting I’d expected to find miles and miles
of cormorants constantly swooping up and down the slopes. There are of nothing but corn and wheat, but
down for the catch of the day. springs tucked in the rocks, some just it’s another amazing state. The Platte
seeping into tiny creeks, others into River drifts along, west to east, from
North from Louisiana, we traveled
to Arkansas. Drifting down its east pools in hotels
side is the Mississippi River, and built in the
it was fun watching the tugboats 1800s. During
slowly make their way up and down the Civil War
the river. We proceeded north, away the springs
from the rice fields along the river became popular
and up to the deeply wooded Ozarks. for healing
Those mountains are not as high as what ailed you.
the North Carolina mountains but One branch
have the same woods and delightful of my family Toadstool Geological Park, Nebraska
moved here
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