Day forty four, Route 7, Arkansas river valley.

Arkansas has a great selection of motorcycle rides, maybe 7 or 8 real good ones, but we had to choose a couple to get us from Hot Springs , up through the Ouachita National Park and the Ozarks on our way to Oklahoma. The pig trail is a popular ride in Arkansas but was a bit far west off our planned route and we were advised the road surface was the pits. We went for Route seven which everyone we spoke to said was a sweet ride.

Before we left Hot Springs we popped up into Hot Springs National Park Mountain drive in the middle of town and did the Tower thing. Those first couple pics are the mountain road. Route 7 from Hot Springs to Ola was a sweet ride with lotsa Twisties as you can see from the map. We ducked off route 7 and headed across toward Danville to ride the Mt Magazine scenic byway over to Paris, then back to Russellville via Dardanelle. This route is called the “Take your breath away” ride in one of the local motorcycle guide books. Judging by the views from the overlook at the summit of Mt Magazine, I guess that’s where the ride was named from. Mt Magazine was also a cracker ride on a deserted road as you can also see from the REVER map.

Down the Mountain and in to the wee town of Paris, that’s the courthouse and the Eiffel Tower, as you would expect in Paris.

Paris to Dardanelles on Route 22, gets us to Russellville for the night, sadly a dry town with no alcohol sales……..my bad, won’t happen again I can assure you!

Now Russellville, is of significance to the trip as it is the half way mark in terms of mileage. We have travelled 11,000 Km’s to date since departing New York and we have 11,000 Km’s to go before we arrive in L.A. to end the trip on 18 September. There you go.

Continuing north on Route 7 again tomorrow.