Day 3 was a rough day. I'd driven hard from Bardstown, KY after falling down a ravine while trying to get a picture from the civil war village. I'd started the day tired but pu,ped for what I expected to be the hardest travel day of the trip.
My morning started in Eureka Springs, Arkansas - a small town with more hotels along what seemed to be it's main strip than should've been able to survive in such a small area. A sign for Pivot Rock State Park, but alas a closed rock and vicious attack pigs kept me from finding out what a rock laying down on the job looks like.
By the way, if you happen to know why Eureka Springs has so many hotels, I'd love to know.
Anyway, I headed down the road to my destination: Thorncrown Chapel, a beautiful church with a real elven feel to its architecture recommended to me when I asked you guys for places around the country to see - thanks Tina!
(More of you might pay attention now when I ask seemingly arbitrary questions now, won't you?)
The rest of the day was hard driving on some wondrously curvy, cliff-side roads that reminded me of where I grew up in Oregon. I got new keychains for my best friend who asks for them from each state I visit where she hasn't been, found an old candy I just had to try, had some horrible roadside heat lamp food and nearly ran out of gas in -20 degrees below weather when the place I intended to stop actually closed. Fortunately, I found a spot with 3 miles left on my car's fuel estimate.
