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Saxon, Hot Springs Visit

boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
edited September 2002 in General Discussion
I'll be in Hot Springs the 24th and 25th. My wife will be with me. The only evening I'll have free will be the 24th. If you and your wife want to do dinner, let me know.

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  • boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
    edited November -1
    Yes, next Tuesday evening. What part of Little Rock are you in? I'd kinda like to meet at a restaurant on the west side of Little Rock, perhaps one going out of town towards Hot Springs. Any flavor will do.

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  • sundownersundowner Member Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Where are you staying in Hot Springs? I was just there a few weeks ago. Great town, service sucks overall, but I reckon it is mostly seasonal employees. We stayed at The Majestic. It was nice, but kind of funky. They also had a "No Guns Allowed" sticker displayed prominently on the door. Everywhere else was booked, or else we'd have gone elsewhere -- so I might have disobeyed their rules. I wish we would have stayed at The Arlington. It seemed much nicer, and I didn't notice the anti-gun stickers on the door -- even though the two are owned by the same company.
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  • boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
    edited November -1
    The company I do work for pays the going rate of a Holiday Inn, so I reserved there. If I can find another for the same price that's better, I can change the reservation. I'll look into the Arlington and see what I can find out.

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  • sundownersundowner Member Posts: 1,198 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Ahh, you are going there for work. We were going for hot springs and massages and the National Park. The Arlington and The Majestic are in the National Park. Going rate on a standard room at the Arlington is going to be about $115/night. The Majestic, you should be able to score for less (they are nice rooms, but they are old and funky).

    If you want to stay on the lake, there is a Clarion that is reportedly pretty decent where you can rent jet skis and such.

    Another place on the lake that has been highly reccomended by friends is:
    Long Island Lake Resort
    320 Long Island Drive
    Hot Springs, AR 71913
    Toll-Free: (800) 467-1598

    There is a place in the old part of Hot Springs that gives me the willies. There is this big, gothic building that sits on the hill just above the community hot spring, next to the offices of the park service. It is supposed to be a rehab facility, but looking at it, it screams "mental health facility" and you can almost smell the electro-shock being administered . . . It is a strange town. With a few bucks and a single celebrity yoga or fitness guru, the entire place would be changed, I think.
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  • boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
    edited November -1
    Benton sounds good, if it's fine with you. It may give my wife and I a chance to see a bit of the countryside while I'm there. Let me know any necessary details. Or you can e-mail me at Grant_Reynolds@msn.com. Thanks!

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  • boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
    edited November -1
    SP. please try to let me know Benton address before noon tomorrow (Monday). Thanks!

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  • boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
    edited November -1
    6:30 Tuesday sounds great! We will be in either a '98 White Dodge Caravan, or an '88 White Ford Taurus. I know, the Taurus sounds old, but it's in nice shape.

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  • boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
    edited November -1
    SP,

    Wanted you to know we were there, but ran into problems. I was able to get away from the job in Hot Springs at 5:45, which I figured would run us a bit late. Did my best to get there, to the point that my wife was complining about my driving. You may have noticed the road construction along the interstate access roads, both side of the highway. That slowed us up some more. Actually slowed us down quite a bit. Thinking Benton must not be much more than a bump in the road (with three torn up exit ramps) I started to look for Colton's, "downtown" Benton was interesting to say the least. Driving down a road until it becomes a oneway going the wrong direction seemed to happen several times. Never ask directions from a convenience store clerk wearing a turbin, or one who should be.

    I honestly don't know what time I gave up, but it must have been about 15 minutes after my wife started complaining about having a hunger induced headache and driving up hills into a sunset with a bug stained windshield. Finally ended up at Brown's Country Restaurant on the north side of the highway. My wife liked the gift shop there, anyway.

    So, I tried. Sorry it didn't work out. Hope you and your lady had a nice dinner. My wife was very happy with the dinner she ended up getting. Maybe some time in the future I'll have an assignment in Little Rock proper and will have a bit more time to find my way around.



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  • boeboeboeboe Member Posts: 3,331
    edited November -1
    What do I do? I think a lot of people wonder that, including my wife.

    Actually, I'm what the people I do work for call an independent consultant, a title they give so they won't have to pay benefits. The SAE (society for automotive engineers, the guys on the oil cans) started a system called NADCAP (National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program). Several large defense/aerospace contractors, such as GE, Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Sikorski Helecopter, Raytheon, Cessna Aircraft, etc, have contracted with NADCAP to send out quality assurance process auditors to audit the manufacturing and inspection process of their suppliers. My area of specialization is NDT Nondestructive Testing). So basically I travel around the country performing process audits on those small companies that supply the larger companies with parts and services. What that does is save the large companies the expense of sending out their own auditors, and reduces the number of audits on the suppliers. That's it in a nutshell.

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