Sunny and warming up. Lo 45 Hi 70
Finally, Bluebonnets!
Today we set off on our first Big Trip of 2025—going to Worcester, Massachusetts to see the kids and then to Magee Marsh, Ohio to see the warblers. Hope it’s an adventure! Or not—no, not an adventure. I’d prefer it to be slightly on the boring side but filled with all sorts of delightful discoveries. Without any adventures—
We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can’t think what anybody sees in them …
The start of the NOT adventure brought us to Edgewood Campground, a COE park near Hot Springs. Edgewood Campground was really very lovely. Right along the edge of a lake (De Gray Lake) and farther up than the state park we’d stayed at before. But the roads were poorly marked and very, very potholey. I didn’t have the brains to print out a map, so we were somewhat clueless about how to get to our site. It turned out, later, that we weren’t the only ones—the people who came in later had to back their trailer up from the crossroads to get it into the space. They took it slowly and painfully, but eventually got it set.
Our site
Just across the park road from us there is a large campsite right by the edge of the water. And several more farther up the road. That nearest one appears to be for handicapped access, but it’s empty and I with I’d reserved it. There’s no restriction on non-handicapped use, it’s simply discouraged for those who don’t need it. But given the day of the week and the time of the year, there was very little chance an actual handicapped person would have needed it.
Ed is really down on this place and I can’t blame him. Not only are the roads horrid, but the Starlink is severely obstructed. I can get enough connection to use the computer—with interruptions—but not to stream video. We’re using the AT&T hot spot on my phone right now.
Merlin heard a bird but recorded it as two different birds—a Blue-headed Vireo and a Yellow-throated Vireo. I only saw one of them, almost certainly the Yellow-throated one. But I couldn’t be sure. I also saw Chipping Sparrows (or course), Blue Jays, Canada Geese, Chickadees, and probably a lot of others I couldn’t identify. A pair of osprey in the tree by the lake, but they didn’t stay around long.
Molly and I took a long walk up the hill and down and around the campground. It was the typical Arkansas second-growth forest, but not real brushy underneath. It was muddy, though, so we didn’t walk much off the road.
There were some sites under water—glad I didn’t reserve one of those! We never saw anyone to check us in or verify our reservation; no matter. There were only a few other campers around, all up the hill from us. They were a little noisy but not objectionably so. One loose dog but he stayed at his site.
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