Ft. Chaffee and Siloam Springs, Arkansas

Before we left Ft. Chaffee on March 9, we visited the barbershop where Elvis had his hair cut. It was not open on the weekend so we walked over from the campground Monday morning. The museum is housed in one of the older buildings.
We found out that Elvis was only at Ft. Chaffee for 3 days.

We also found out that the chimneys on the last post were left as a result of an unexplained fire about a year ago.

We left Ft. Chaffee around 11:00 and drove north on I540 to Springdale, Arkansas. From there we headed west on US 412 to Siloam Springs. We enjoyed our stay at Siloam and did some geocaching with Bob's parents. We found this old church in the country for one of our caches. In the cemetery behind the church we found graves for a soldier from the Revolutionary War...

and from the Civil War.
While in Arkansas we looked for a Razorback keychain to add to the SEC travel bug we needed to place. We finally found one as we were leaving Arkansas and going into Tennessee!
We left Siloam Springs on March 15. We left about an hour before Bob and Dot. The rv needed gas so we went west a half block to Oklahoma, filled the rv, then retraced our tracks to Springdale, then south to I-40. Bob and Dot caught up to us in Fayetteville and led the way to a rest stop on I-40. We all got out to stretch our legs, then continued on our way with a plan to stop east of Little Rock for lunch. Bob and Dot were headed to Knoxville and we didn't know where we would end up! After lunch we went our separate ways. They stopped east of Nashville for the night and we stopped at Natchez Trace State Park in Tennessee.

We only stayed at the state park for one night. The park was nice and on a lake. There weren't many campers in the park.
The dock was near our campsite.

From Natchez Trace State Park we drove south to Shiloh National Battlefield.
We toured the battlefield and saw the monuments erected by states for their soldiers who fought at Shiloh during the Civil War. These are just a few of the monuments.

After touring Shiloh, we headed east toward Natchez Trace National Parkway. We'll tell you more in our next post.