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We took Rodney Road south towards the Natchez Trace and rolled into town at sunset, unloaded the bikes and tooled around the bluffs until dark. We hit Fat Mama's for tamales and margaritas and called it a night

After backtracking out Shaifer Road and the bridge, we hit Highway 51 for the short drive to Lorman Mississippi, home of Mr D's Famous Fried Chicken. It's the best fried chicken in the world. From Lorman, we hit Rodney Road which is a mixture of bad pavement and gravel to get to the...

Next stop was Port Gibson. Grant declared the town too beautiful to burn so many of the homes and churches here are antebellum. Outside of town, there is a National Park property called Shaifer House. This is the location of the first battle of the Battle of Port Gibson in 1863 when...

I started a food and travel blog to document the small towns, backroads and good places to eat in and around the State of Mississippi a couple of years ago. I have been documenting the travels on my local Land Cruiser site, but I have had many others asking about some of these spots so when I...

I was able to do Baja for the first time this year when Can Am let me try out their new Maverick. I got to see some of the stuff you did on your last trip. I can't wait to get back. Loved your story.

I was just following along. I could figure it out if I had to go back though. Head to Oark and just start poking around the FS roads.

Awesome report once again. I love the Van Chronicles

You are worth your keep old man......

We struck out Sunday morning looking to stretch a little more out of the weekend. We crossed Brushy Creek and headed south and looked about unit about noon. We crossed back into Mississippi around 4 pm after traveling about 900 miles to enjoy over 100 miles of Arkansas trails. The...

The following morning we struck out to the southwest to head to a super secret campsite south of Mena. We wanted to spend as much time off road as we could so we looked on the map and found a Forest Service road that ran from neat Ola to near Mena. FS67......it follows a long ridge. We made...

We made it back to the beautiful bluff camp just before sunset. The cold front was roaring in at this point and temps were in the 40's and the wind was gusting to 20 mph. Photo out of my tent window at sunrise Video of the campsite the next morning. https://youtu.be/wgPs9J4kQy0

Afternoon highlight was this old farm place. The owner leaves it open for visitors with a sign that says no camping and Please don't steal anything. Our faithful guide Dave...... This fence encompassed the immediate homesite and ran for hundreds of yards in each direction. Truly...

Some of these crossings would be really nice with some water in them. The holes would make for some surprising bow waves. I look forward to retracing my steps in the spring when they are full

The main goal of the day was to eat a burger at the Oark Store. It's great to go up and wander the mountains with no real agenda other than to eat. Just before the store we walked across the river on a super cool suspension bridge. Ozark Store is super cool and the burgers are...

The road leveled off and wound through some of the nicest remaining autumn leaves that are left in Arkansas. Absolutely beautiful. This beauty gave us a close fly-by just east of Oark I'm a sucker for bridges..... I could spend a week taking photos of old buildings and barns in...

The first night was pretty warm with a low in the mid 60's but a MUCH needed rain swept in mid-morning and made the trails a bit slippery and most importantly, DUST FREE. Most of the crossings were dry, but some still held some water. Dave lead us out of Union School up a really...

Arkansas in the fall is always a great long weekend destination. There are two major National Forests with hundreds, if not thousands of backroads through some of fall's best colors. 3 of us made the trek over from Mississippi to a friend's property high on a cliff overlooking Lake Dardanelle...

This is spot on. I shared it on my site. Thanks for the link

I did that in about 2005 with a CDN101 and a 100 Series Land Cruiser. I spent about $400 on adapters........it was cool and all but not $400 cool

Sipsey River Bridge Alabama