April 16-18, 2016
The Ozark Mountains have the unfortunate association in many people's minds of the portrayal of hill people in the classic 1972 movie "Deliverance". The movie is actually filmed in rural Georgia's Appalachian mountains, not the Ozarks. The most famous scene, Dueling banjos (actually a banjo and a guitar...) is seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tqxzWdKKu8
Nevertheless, we spent a couple of days driving through the Ozarks which, after the dramatic desert mountains in the west, seemed like gentle rolling hills.
Some of the signs in the tiny villages we saw during our drive along scenic Highway 7:
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| Booger Hollow...really? |
One night we camped at a very remote little US Forest Service campground called Long Pool Recreational Area, where, like so many of the US parks, some of the facilities date back to the Roosevelt administration's 1930s CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) post-Depression job creation projects. It was lovely!
This campground was reminiscent of the pretty Laurie Provincial Park in Nova Scotia. Are we starting to feel it is time to go home???
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