After returning in early February as Winter Texans, we experienced 1 tornado, 2 large snows, 2 ice storms, and 2 historic floods, all at or near our home base. With our US Army Corps of Engineers Upper White River Basin lakes at historic levels and several business items to take care of in central Arkansas, we decided to escape to the Little Rock area for a short RV trip. We packed up DunnGone and headed toward Little Rock for an extended ‘week’ of wedding shower, memorial service in Lake Hamilton, and Kaden’s band concert in Benton. We decided to take the motor home and stay at Maumelle Park as our ‘base of operations’ for these activities. Kay drove the Expedition and traveled down Arkansas Hwy. 5 and Donald took the RV down via US Hwy. 65. After an arduous 3-1/2 hour trip in the rain, we pulled into the Corps’ Maumelle Park. Except for cable and sewer hook-ups, it exceeds any commercial campground we’ve ever seen. It overlooks the Arkansas River in West Little Rock, but is absent urban noises and distractions. We parked with the "big boys" in the "B" section. Setting up was a breeze, including the satellite with our homemade PVC base, though Little Rock has HD stations available over the air and easily received by our antenna. The park was fairly full, especially along the river side of Sections A and B. We stayed in B25 with a view of the river out our front window. The RV sites are very large, each one almost has its own ‘yard’. There were a lot of ‘fulltimers’ at the park – mostly class A’s. Donald set up the satellite and got it working but we used the antennae because we got HD local channels from Little Rock. Kay wanted a fire sometime during our stay, so we rummaged firepits of vacant sites for firewood, collecting enough for a couple of nights. We walked the immediate campground to get a lay of the land. Thursday night there were at least two parties near us. One was apparently a reunion of several women from the LR area who all came out to the RV site of one of the women. There was much visiting and some drinking too. Another group seemed to be a group of Lesbos with several travel trailers and tents who had come to celebrate one person’s birthday. Kay attempted to reheat some chicken parmesan and spaghetti, but the microwave would not work despite several attempts. She heated it on the stove top, we ate, and settled in for the evening.