A little summary of this years recent holiday as I know there are some (like me) that enjoy these ‘travel’ posts.
So, 4 years ago we planned and booked a dream MTB trip – 3 weeks exploring the hotspots of Tennessee and North Carolina – only Covid ended that dream. 2024 and we thought it safe to try again – only for storm Helene to sweep through (with it’s terrible destruction) days before we flew out. Couldn’t change the flights easily/cheaply at short notice so this is what we ended up pulling together at the last minute – be warned – its not all biking but also some tourist tat as well.
Lets Go Then…
After arriving and overnighting in Nashville, we headed out on our first big driving day. Now, you can be sure if there is a fast and direct route, we will ignore it and go take the alternative through small town America and so we managed to pass through 5 states on todays drive – Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and our destination Arkansas – that’s a lot of Trump banners.
Bikes built and looking forward to seeing what all the Bentonville fuss is about tomorrow.
Bentonville
The hype is real! Amazing investment in bike trails and infrastructure giving us safe cycling access right from our AirBnB to a number of trail systems dotted around the town.
Gee, what a day – bumped into this real life superhero the next day who was also checking out what Bentonville has to offer.
Also run over my first snake of the trip – little fella seemed unharmed
Third day saw us ride out to our third trail system – Hand Cut Hollow – narrow, well made singletrack
But couldn’t resist another loop at Slaughter Pen on our way back through town
To be continued…