The fam and I wanted to see some Autumn leaves this year (you know, the brightly colored things we don't have in Texas).

I studied the websites (like [----]) to decide where to go and basically found out that this year everyone was dry and so the leaves basically sucked pretty much everywhere. But then I found out Arkansas got some rain in the last two weeks and they were pretty at the end of October. I wanted something different and peaceful..not your average hotel/motel thing. So, I happened to stumble upon the website of the River Spirit Retreat (via [----]...but that's another story).

When I talked to the owner, she kept saying, 'you know it is remote'. I told her that is what I was looking for...a cute 'not-so-rustic' cabin in a relatively remote location that we could use as a base of operations. By the time she said 'you know it is remote' about the 4th time, I was thinking maybe this place was in Deliverance Country. Then, she told me we needed to bring our... more