Archives

Wife and I just got a room over in victorian Eureka Springs. hehehehe, :)

Should be a good drive over into the Ozarks. I cant get to wild on the two lanes with the wife. So hopefully there will be some good hypermiling going on.

Wensday we will head out of Okmulgee north to Tulsa. Then east into NW Arkansas. Head up into the Ozarks into Eureka. Leave the next day and head south twords Ft. Smith. Don't know if we will take old 71 south or 540 thru the Boston Mts. Get down into the Arkansas River valley then head back west on interstate 40. Should be a 500 or so mile round trip. Should be able to do the trip on one tank of fuel.

Should be a good time.

psy

Sounds like it should be a good escape.

Eureka's a great little town and it's only 20 minutes away from my lake house up in Eagle Rock, MO.

Some of the roads are great for hypermiling, but some are not at all as they're 55-60mph zones only 2 lanes wide, hilly, curving, etc. It may be doable on one tank of gas, but to some degree it'll depend upon how much driving around you do in Eureka and how much you can stay off of the interstates.

I won't be able to be in that area that time of the week or I'd offer to meet you and show you around, but I'm sure you'll manage to have a great time without me. Be sure to tell Beau at Satori Arts hello from me.

Eureka's a great little town and it's only 20 minutes away from my lake house up in Eagle Rock, MO.

Some of the roads are great for hypermiling, but some are not at all as they're 55-60mph zones only 2 lanes wide, hilly, curving, etc. It may be doable on one tank of gas, but to some degree it'll depend upon how much driving around you do in Eureka and how much you can stay off of the interstates.

I won't be able to be in that area that time of the week or I'd offer to meet you and show you around, but I'm sure you'll manage to have a great time without me. Be sure to tell Beau at Satori Arts hello from me.


I'm a Arkie boy. :) To bad you couldn't be there for say lunch on thursday. Ive spent afew very good days there in my life time.

I may not beable to flog it as I have in the past on the wonderful two lanes diving from ridge to valley and such. But you can bet there will be some Fas'ing going on that would make Excels death turn look like child's play. :)

I took the wife on a google fly to show her where we will be going. I have got her to Arkansas in the past. But never to the hide-a-way.

I still don't know if we will take old 71 south out of NW Arkansas or 540. Both would be great hypermiling roads. Well drivers roads. :) No matter what it will be a great loop. I chucked some money on a debt card she dosent know about yet. I will give it to her when we hit downtown and she will beable to go nuts shoping. The upscale down home junk shops will blow her away in a vicy. village... :) Me I will stager along with a mug of 6 point. :)

psy

What part of Arkansas are you from? I went to HS in Mtn. Home, college in F'ville, med school in Little Rock. My wife was born and raised in the Harrison area but finished HS in Ft. Smith (north side). She went to College at Hendrix in Conway and we met in med school. Both of our families still live in Arkansas as well.

Anyway, lunch Thursday can't happen, I'm having surgery that morning and despite my wishes otherwise my wife won't consider beer as an acceptible analgesic! Happy hypermiling....it's pretty dang chilly here still, but should warm up to the 60s by Wed./Thur.

What part of Arkansas are you from? I went to HS in Mtn. Home, college in F'ville, med school in Little Rock. My wife was born and raised in the Harrison area but finished HS in Ft. Smith (north side). She went to College at Hendrix in Conway and we met in med school. Both of our families still live in Arkansas as well.

Anyway, lunch Thursday can't happen, I'm having surgery that morning and despite my wishes otherwise my wife won't consider beer as an acceptible analgesic! Happy hypermiling....it's pretty dang chilly here still, but should warm up to the 60s by Wed./Thur.

I refer to my self as a Ft. Smith boy. My Arkie roots are from the northeast part of the state. Batesville, Cave City, Grange. Ive lived in LR, Mena, Ft. Smith. I'm a hillbilly Arkie and have no respect for the Delta Queens. Yes for those watching,,, Arkansas is a very divided state. I have no respect for the Delta as we call it to be nice.

If my parents had stayed in Arkansas I would have went to U of A on a football ride or at the very least a music ride playing viola. But they moved and it crushed me. Not there problem.... SoCal music/sports was real lame back in the mid 70's when we went west. It sucked. One of life's cruel blows. I loved being scouted at U of A when going to football camps there from grade school on. ( go hogs!!! ) Thank GOD Frank will be gone soon. :)

Its a part of the world very near and dear to my heart. I will be layed to rest Arkansas. I can share with you some of the very nicest folks Ive ever met in my life are Okies. Something about Okies. They are great folks! But my love is Arkansas. My wife gets sick over it. It mess's her mind up. She doesn't understand how they work so hard, and play so hard. To a outsider,,, they will never understand.

Im soooo amp'ed over this little trip I cant stand it. The wife just came back from the store thinking I would be gone to Ft. Smith. Was surprised when she found me here. Something happens to me when I cross into Arkansas... Im home,,, I change. I want to pop a top, stick a weed in my lips, bow up,, walk funny and say. " thank god I'm home ,,, GO HOG's " It is God's country.

I look so forward to hypermiling 62, 23, and county roads that wouldn't make since to many. Trying to decide, 71 south or 540 for the trip back. Hell may have to go to Alma on both roads. Drive one down the other up and flop.

Means alot to me. Home for 48 hrs. with the wife,,, a Civic and the Ozarks. :)

psy

Well here we are.

Had a good drive over. The Civic didn't want to get in the game this morning at all. I had to resort to some P&G to remind it who's boss. It worked! The first leg of the trip is basically my daily grind. So we ground it into a Ihop on the east side of Tulsa for some grub and coffee.

Pulling into Ihop had the SG like this.
Current 45.2 mpg
Today 45.2
Tank 44.8
Miles 40
MPH Ave 43
MPH Max 63

Had some good grub and beat it on twords Eureka Springs. Stopped on the east side of Rodgers Ar. at a Yamaha Dealer to check out a few bikes. Then headed on to Pea Ridge Battle Field. Took the Battle Field drive thru tour. Then on the Eureka Springs.

The driving east of Rodgers gets real fun real fast. Sport FASing dream. :)

Hears a SG shot just before Springdale Ar.
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/558/medium/IMG_5937.JPG

Pulled into our Motel with these stat's off the SG.
Current 37.2
Today 49.2
Tank 49.0
Miles 215.8
MPH Ave 42
MPH Max 68,,,, Told you there was some sport FASing in these parts. :bananajump: :bananajump:
RPM Max 3072

The very best I saw on the SG was 74 mpg after this long fas. I went alot farther than this video would allow.
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/showphoto.php/photo/2985/cat/558

After this fas was a true sport fas. Down the side of a hill with really tight corners that dip into bowls with lots of banking. Real diggers they are. May try and go back thru there and get the wife to hold on to the cam. Way to much for me to drive and film. May be too much for her to handle and not hold on. :D

Stay tuned for a update this evening. :)

psy

Hi Psy:

___Great to hear you arrived safe and sound … and the FE your Civic allowed wasn’t half bad either ;)

___Tell your wife to keep you from the various hotel’s computers for the next few days as you both enjoy some well deserved personal time together without a care in the world … Meaning no thoughts of work, honey do’s, future headaches and especially any of us here for the next few days :)

___Good Luck and enjoy your vacation!

___Wayne

Got yeah excel. :) lololololol

Yesteday was a lot of simple clean fun. Very relaxing!

We did drive around town a little. Then into downtown. Parked downtown on the street and walked a lot of it. We purchased a matching set of pinky rings. Very nice tiny small three band rings. Eureka is a intresting old town. Very narrow streets. Within 3 weeks this place will be packed with people from all over the world. So it was nice to be here just before the season gets in full swing.

http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/558/medium/IMG_5962.JPG
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/558/medium/IMG_5961.JPG
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/558/medium/IMG_5987.JPG

For the evening we decided to take in one of the Jamboree shows. There are two in town. Mini version's of what you would see in say,,, Branson, Mo. There wasn't a large turn out this time of year. So it was a very intemint setting. The entertainment was simple. Well executed and not a missed note or line. We were very impressed with this simple brand of entertainment. The Banjo player was top notch. Right up there with Roy Clark and others.

http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/558/medium/IMG_5994.JPG
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/558/medium/IMG_6013.JPG
http://www.cleanmpg.com/photos/data/558/medium/IMG_6009.JPG

SG from yesterdays puttering arounds.
Current 30
Today 45
Tank 47.9
Miles 229.9
MPH Ave 30
MPH Max 50

Today we will run out to the site of the Passion Play. Run out to a large cat refuge. Then head south back twords Fort Smith thru the Boston Mountains, as there known around here. Then head back west on Inst. 40 for home. The wife needs to go into work Friday.

psy