A Bridge to adventure

War Eagle - Near Eureka Springs, Arkansas

Last fall we went to Northern Arkansas. We stayed a day or two in Eureka Springs and rode the Pig Trail back home. After a day of exploring downtown, we just rode out to have a nice leisurely ride before turning in for the evening. We rode out near Beaver Lake and by chance took a road that led to this. What a beautiful place. War Eagle is just a little place in the middle of no where, just a couple of old buildings. There were no people there but us and another car.

The old wooden bridge was fun to ride across, but kind of precarious since you didn't have much room to put your feet down should you need to stop. You had to keep the bike on the middle of the three boards, kind of like a tightrope act. Fate has is that the SUV in front of us was piled up with kids and they were driving very slowly across the bridge, to everyone a chance to look out over rickety old bridge. As they approached the end, they came to almost a dead stop.

We kept yelling, "Go! Go!" We were balancing on those three boards and trying to keep the 800 lb. bike (with two passengers) upright and still going in the forward position. I don't think the car in front ever thought about how stopping on the bridge was going to effect the motorcycles behind him. Luckily, Chris is an expert rider!

Some of the best rides are the places you discover by chance. The places no one told you about. The ones where you just decided for no reason at all to turn left instead of right. Seems there is always something waiting to be discovered when you are on a bike. Maybe it is the same in life.

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