So…given the forecast of storms last night my wife and I decided to hit the road northwest to Fayeteville, Arkansas with the hope of catching the fall colors at peak just before the storms rolled thru last night.
In all candor this video I’ve put on here doesn’t do justice to what we saw on our tour yesterday from Siloam Springs thru the northwest outskirts of Fayeteville to our final destination of Lake Sequoyah just east of the epic White River.
The colors were a stunning combination of peak red, orange, and yellow. We couldn’t have been luckier the way we held off all the way to November 10th to make this trek.
This was our first time to make this trip since the pandemic and the little Amish bakery where we usually buy something was closed….which was sad. But our favorite Italian restaurant in Siloam Spring…Mrs. Z’s Italian Kitchen was still open. It was great and thriving as usual. Nothing goes better with a foilage drive than a chicken parm or chicken marsala.
The college town of Fayetteville is probably where my wife and I are going to co-live at some point. Our family is building a home on a mountain overlooking Lake Sequoyah and is just getting started. It may take two years. No big hurry.
But that will time out perfectly as the Sooners at that point we would hope are playing in the same SEC West pod with the Arkansas Razorbacks, Missouri Tigers, and pathetic non-SEC worthy Texas Longhorns.
My wife asked, ” Won’t you miss having an NBA team twenty minutes away?”
I replied, ” Don’t think so…given we haven’t had NBA caliber basketball in Oklahoma City since Kevin left to go play with Klay and Steph. If what we’re seeing right now from Presti is any indication of the Thunder’s ‘sustainable’ future…I’ll be getting on the Porter Moser’s hoops train and not looking back with much regret.”
I then added, “My main concern will be if Alabama goes after Lincoln Riley when Saban retires.”
I still find it completely awesome that Oklahoma City could ever have an NBA team which made it to the NBA Finals in 2012, but you can’t live in the past. It’s always moving forward.
Let’s be blunt…Sam Presti without KD is like Belichick without Tom Brady. Player made the coach/GM. Just saying.
For an older guy like me…Fayetteville be will be perfect. Of course…I’ll still bleed Crimson, but what will happen is that Arkansas sports will become my next favorite program except when it’s an OU- Arkansas matchup.
There’s just something I find very alluring about living just outside of a college town like Fayetteville with world class fishing of every sort around you….plus the great food and inherit beauty of the rolling hills of Northwest Arkansas.
Arkansas is called the Natural State and it pretty much is. I’ll have to see if I can find my old White River trout guide who used to be Bill Clinton’s barber. We’ll have alot to talk about after the four years of the grifter pos Trump’s dictatorial abuse of our constitution.
There’s another lit Italian restaurant in Eureka Springs… I’ll review it next time we’re back.
The winter fishing at Lake Sequoyah is pretty good. So next time back in a month or so I’ll have a Mike’s Travel Bolg entry on wintertime fishing under the bridge at Lake Sequoyah with emphasis on catching black crappie… plus the eggplant parmesan review from Eureka Springs.
And…there’s a holiday X-Mas light display on campus I’ll have to put on my travel blog before Christmas Day.
Sam Presti left me no choice. I have to diversify the blog since no one apparently knows if the Thunder are trying to win, trying to lose, or thinking of moving the team at some point.
It is what is as far as the Thunder…but it’s always moving forward for me. Mike never looks back.