To get AR & LA. We stayed in El Dorado, AR in La Quinta Inn the night before the ride. I work up early to drive ~10 miles to Strong, AR to start the ride. This was the 1st ride of the multi-state tour Sonja and I did when driving to and from the Battlefields 1200k ride in Sterling, VA. This route was already in RUSA library but nobody had ridden it. They had a note about some roads not being paved, but all were paved. This was a great route. Especially nice was the final few miles back into town from mile 59. There were some horses & cattle in a pasture, some nice farms, and a quiet, rolling road. Before that I was on ~6 miles of a hwy that had a few cars. The little burg of Felsenthal was different. It was totally a hunting, fishing outdoors sort of place with old trailers and a city name that sounded like it was in Germany. To the north of Felsenthal, I took a pic of woods that had the undergrowth burned out. That was sort of strange. Before that, the citty of Huttig and the road over to Felsenthal was a cute road.