Tour de Arkansas

[ljasonl]

Some Subaru owners from the Dallas area were thinking about coming up to drive some roads, and I got to looking at a map to think about a possible route. I came up with an all day route, I don't know when or if they're gonna come but I'd like to do this even if they don't. So anyone from here want to spend a day driving in the mountains. It will be so much more fun to get a group than to do it alone. The route goes down highway 7 from Dardanelle to Hot Springs which is either a state or national scenic route, for Hot Springs to Queen Wilhelmina on I forget the road but it's another back road, Then on a different twisty backroad over to highway 309 (or is it 109?) in Havana, over Mount Magazine, through Paris and Ozark (another scenic byway), into 23 (the pig trail), turn on another twisty looking back road over to highway 7 again except further north than before (more scenic bymay), then head South back to Dardanelle, then probably finish by heading up Mount Nebo at around sunset. It's a little over 400 miles with a several mountain overlooks and other things we could take short breaks at so it's not constant driving. Plus I could use the opportunity to get a lot of footage for that movie thing. Since we'll be going near a good deal of the forums "viewing area" you could just join in when we get near you, or come to Dardanelle to meet at the start, whatever you want. So... whatcha think?

[Mr. Merk]

u can count the merks in, we love twisties :ohyeah:


right joe?

[HintOfBlue]

id love to take Amy on a trip like that ^_^ but im not sure id be able to keep up & then to slow down on curvy roads i dont know. also we would have to stop so i could get gas, i have horrible gas mileage :(

[turboXR]

u can count the merks in, we love twisties

You're dang right. That's what they're made for. Count me in, what day? time? etc. etc.

[ljasonl]

Originally posted by purplepony95@Jun 3 2004, 09:42 AM
im not sure id be able to ceep up. i ten to slow down on curvy roads i dont know.
We won't be racing. Just a nice cruise, have to keep a wide margin of error on public roads.

[turboXR]

Do you have a day set? And a place in Dardenelle?

[HintOfBlue]

well im sure she could handle the curves, but shell need a lot of gas to keep going :shiftingfun:

[ljasonl]

Originally posted by turboxr@Jun 3 2004, 10:19 AM
Do you have a day set? And a place in Dardenelle?
nope

[ljasonl]

Okay, what do you think about Saturday the 19th or 26th of this month?

[Mr. Merk]

Originally posted by ljasonl@Jun 3 2004, 02:44 PM
Okay, what do you think about Saturday the 19th or 26th of this month?
i'm gonna be in minnesota the 26th, we need to schedule this more in advance so people can get off work etc, my .02

[ljasonl]

I was gonna say July 3 but I don't know how many people would be able to make it then. Would anyone want to do it then? How bout July 10?

[ljasonl]

July 3 is looking popular among the few people on ARI who wanted to go, can you guys do then?

[turboXR]

Probably, I really wanna go. Really hope I can.

[ljasonl]

Saturday, July 3 is gonna be the day

[Mr. Merk]

Originally posted by ljasonl@Jun 8 2004, 12:32 AM
Saturday, July 3 is gonna be the day
crap, that is gonna be a big sale day at sears, cant take off, sorry

you need to bring your camera up sometime when we have an OTL meet, we've got a twistie road for ya (goes past turboxr's house) and its tradition to have a couple nice burnouts :ohyeah:

[ljasonl]

Next weekend...