Friends of Dorothy Rally and Hot Springs, AR

There is a Airstream rally called the Friends of Dorothy Rally.  In the past couple of years, we have watched the discussion and pictures of the rallies and decided that it was something that we wanted to attend at some point.  The location, near Hot Springs, AR, isn't exactly a weekend trip for us, so we know it would be a long-term plan to get there.  It fit nicely with our central states road trip both location and timing, so we decided to make it a stop.

Bottom line...one of the best rallies I've been at.  I wish we would have taken more time to see Hot Springs, though.  We took one rainy afternoon and went into town.  The rest of the time was spent doing rally activities and enjoying the absolutely awesome campgrounds and pool.  I doubt that I would have shelled out the money to stay at this place on my own, but with the rally we got a pretty good discount.

The rally itself was incredible as well.  Lots of very social people, excellent food, excellent drinks.  The late night party on Saturday was one for the records, especially for Andrea.  Let's just say: what happens at the FoD rally stays at the FoD rally.  It will be a rally that we reminisce for a long time.

This is the lone picture that we have relating to the National Park in Hot Springs.  The park / area isn't so much a place to take pictures, especially with the storm moving through.  But it's a place to see the way people used to live and enjoy life.  They would take a vacation to this town with natural hot springs and spend time in saunas, walking through the gardens, socializing, shopping.

So then there was the rally

The site was nice.  Our neighbor captured a cool picture of the storms passing by north of the campground.

 The pavilion is ready for people and food

Throughout the time at the rally leading up to the grand finale which is always Saturday night, we kept hearing things about how "the sign wasn't there" and "she forgot the sign".  Turns out it was there and just talked-up so that when it was turned on it was a surprise.  The folks that owned this Airstream really did it well.  I took no pictures of the inside.  From the outside, it appears to just be a well kept 70's Sovereign.  But inside is very theme decorated and clearly ready for a party.  I hope to find this trailer at another rally soon.  Nothing like 30 adults at the very end of a row in a campground having to be told to keep it down...twice.

This has nothing to do with the rally, but Mason just happened to be really thrilled after breakfast for some reason and it was the morning of the rally before heading home.