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West Memphis, AR (2)


5/20 - 6/8/2008	Our location - West Memphis, AR Tom Sawyer's Mississippi River RV Park
We returned to Tom Sawyer's Mississippi River RV Park because we had a good visit in November 2006. The park had been flooded during the heavy 2008 rains but was drying out when we arrived. We wanted to be in the new section tailored for fifth-wheels.
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	A new neon sign. First you drive up the levee.
	And then you drive down the levee.
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	Tom Sawyer's Mississippi River RV Park office.
	As they are rebuilding things in the park, they are trying to protect it from the flooding of the Mississippi. Here they are putting the bath house one story off of the ground. Here the electrical panels are mounted on the second story.
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	Mark is standing at the entrance to the new section of the park. The site is the new section are positioned so the rear end of trailers face the Mississippi. Seats along the bank for barge watching. The old section was better suited for motorhomes with the fronts facing the river.
	Very roomy sites. We got site 100, the best.
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	Our view out the side of the trailer. Our view out the back of *Tige*.
	The Mississippi was really running. Note the water level today versus the water level of the Mississippi river of the picture below that was taken in November 2006. The sand on the far bank is covered in water today.
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	This is why we like being here. There is just something to watching the barges go past.

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	Linda and Larry Moore stopped at Tom's Sawyers on their way to Michigan from Retama Village. This is their new, to them, Teton trailer.
	Linda and Larry getting ready to leave. They have a pretty good sized train going down the road too.

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	A large barge complex heading downstream. The tug end of the barge complex.
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