Thank you for the advice on traveling through Arkansas .. My wife and
I sure will take note when we pass by in our Imperial.. Thanks Bill...
On Jan 14, 2004, at 8:26 PM, Bill Conway wrote:
> I regret that you and your wonderful 1967 Imperial Coupe had a bad
> experience in Arkadelphia, Arkansas on your way back to Washington,
> DC. You
> evidently got off at the first exit and found one of those college town
> motels where the guests only stay an hour or so, therefore sheets don't
> matter. After all, it is a college town with not one but two
> universities
> and thousands of young lust filled students. The innkeeper is
> probability a
> refugee named from the east coast who went as far as his family could
> send
> him and he got lost in the wilderness of the Arkansas. After all, you
> were
> only some 23 miles from Hot Springs and some really decadent
> civilization.
>
> I well know the Andy's you mentioned and you were very correct on
> that. Not
> even the locals eat there. If you had only traveled another ten miles
> to
> Caddo Gap, you would have found civilization with lots of good motels
> and a
> fine restaurant, Bowens, which serves some mighty fine Southern styled
> victuals, along with lots of high class fast food emporiums such a
> McDonalds, Wendy's, KFC, etc. and no one there would have known what an
> Imperial was or could even spell it.
>
> As with most travelers, you didn't stop at the childhood home of
> President
> Bill Clinton, Hope, Arkansas nor at the home of our Congressman Mike
> Ross,
> Prescott, Arkansas but pressed on in what was undoubtedly a most
> elegant
> yellow '67 Imperial up the interstate to exit 73 on I - 30, and were
> attracted by the bright lights of the Wal-Mart Super Center (a major
> tourist
> attraction in its self). If I could, I'd apologize for the bad time
> you
> had but let me tell you of the time I stopped in this place in Canada
> where
> the bed sloped to the north, was as cold as h----, and my wife
> wouldn't sit
> on anything - but that for another time.
>
> You and your magnificent '67 now rate as an Arkansas Travelers, so Go
> Pig,
> Sooowee, Razorbacks. How about them Hogs. And yuh all come back, yuh
> hear!
>
> Bill Conway, 67 4 dr
> in McGehee, Arkansas.
>
>
>
>
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