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The Ouachita (pronounced Wash-it-aww) and Ozarks are national forests and very, very large. Lots of good places within them though.

My suggestion would be to go to the Buffalo River and hike Hemmed-in-hollow and Goat Trail on the same day or to hike Indian Creek. Hemmed-in-Hollow is a waterfall and Goat trail takes you onto the side of a quite tall bluff. Indian creek is a creek you can hike/wade to see some excellent waterfalls. At the end there's a cave you used to be able to climb through to get to what's called the Eye of the Needle but it's been closed for several years to protect the bats. Just getting to that point is a lot of fun though. Great photographs too. Renting a canoe and floating the Buffalo river is fun. Not a lot of white-water just a few rapids and a fun day on the river. If you're in this area at night stop by to see the Elk. They were reintroduced several years ago and come out to graze in a farm nearby. There will probably be a dozen cars parked on the side of the road watching them.

Drive down to Petit Jean state park. The Boy Scout trail there is ~10 miles long and there's plenty of other short ones you can loop together. Cedar Falls is only a short hike and a great view.

Hot Springs is nice but not top of the list. The trails there are pleasent but the downtown is pretty touristy. Still, it's a National Park and I always like to cross those off my list.

After that go southwest to Eagle Rock Loop. It's been mentioned before for a reason. It's great.

Other ideas are the Richland Creek wilderness area, the Hurrican Creek wilderness area, Forked Mountain, and Sylamore creek. The books below have a pretty extensive list of trails. The three long trails are the Ozark Highlands Trail (165 miles), the Ouachita Trail (222 miles), and the Buffalo River Trail (~40 miles).

https://www.amazon.com/Ouachita-Trail-Guide-Tim-Ernst/dp/1882906438/ref=sr_1_19?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505103125&sr=1-19&keywords=Tim+Ernst

https://www.amazon.com/Arkansas-Hiking-Trails-Selected-Natural/dp/1882906128/ref=sr_1_1/136-4949382-1411237?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505103098&sr=1-1&keywords=Tim+Ernst

https://www.amazon.com/Arkansas-waterfalls-guidebook-Tim-Ernst/dp/1882906489/ref=sr_1_3/136-4949382-1411237?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505103098&sr=1-3&keywords=Tim+Ernst
https://www.amazon.com/Ozark-Highlands-Trail-Guide-Ernst/dp/188290639X/ref=sr_1_4/136-4949382-1411237?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505103098&sr=1-4&keywords=Tim+Ernst

https://www.amazon.com/Buffalo-River-Hiking-Trails-Ernst/dp/1882906403/ref=sr_1_5/136-4949382-1411237?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505103098&sr=1-5&keywords=Tim+Ernst

This is so thoughtful! I think if you search for farmers' markets in Conway and Little Rock you should find a ton of resources. You can actually buy local online at Arkansas Local Food Network. You might want to check out Little Rock Urban Farming too.

As far as locally sourced meats go, the only place I can personally vouch for is Hillcrest Artisan Meats. Their FB page is really informative too. I've also heard great things about Falling Sky Farm. EatWild could be really useful to you as well.

Ok, on to the bit I know something about: Hiking!
Some of the best times of my 7 year relationship were spent waterfall hiking in the winter with my boyfriend. No snakes and, if you're lucky, frozen solid waterfalls. Arkansas Waterfall Guidebook and Arkansas Hiking Trails are my favorite books on the subject. The best trails/waterfalls (IMO) are near Jasper, so if you guys have a free weekend it would be really fun to rent a cabin and hike around. Jasper has lots of cool local shops and restaurants too.

If you are interested in the outdoors in Arkansas, then you'll want to look in to the works of Tim Ernst, a wildlife photographer and local authority on all things outdoors. His Arkansas Hiking Trails is a must have for a start, and he has many other books on different facets of being outdoors in the state. You will be living in the beautiful Ozark Mountains, and within about an hour to an hour-and-a-half driving you will have access to almost all outdoor activities that Arkansas has to offer, from trout fishing to rock climbing to canoeing/kayaking, to mountain biking. I could go on, but you get the picture.

Welcome! and enjoy!

I once had a professor who allowed me to do class research (journalism) on Arkansas paranormal folklore, and one of my topics was newspaper coverage of the Fouke Monster. Those old articles and the locals' accounts were by far some of the funnier things I've ever read. If y'all are into Bigfoot-esque stories and backwoods colloquialism, I highly recommend reading Smokey and the Fouke Monster, as well as watching the B-movie "The Legend of Boggy Creek."

Also, one of my favorite Unsolved Mysteries episodes featured the Gurdon Light and the story of Will Mclain. (Shameless plug: /r/UnsolvedMysteries)

Along with the Fouke Monster, another famous Arkansas story is that of the White River Monster, "Whitey," which is actually protected by law.

I know you don't want to buy her anything, but this book is a great list of trails in central Arkansas with detailed information and photos. I'm at work right now or I'd just tell you what's close to Conway.

http://www.amazon.com/Trails-Central-Arkansas-Guide-Water/dp/1935166891/

Tim Ernst wrote the best guides for this.
https://www.amazon.com/Buffalo-River-Hiking-Trails-Ernst/dp/1882906403/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1520289641&sr=8-1&keywords=buffalo+river+hiking+trails

You can buy hemp oil from Amazon or a natural foods grocery store and make your own. Hemp oil has a strong taste, but I’ve used it in cakes and it was fine. You can use it in any dish where you’d use vegetable oil.

This site has a lot of trails in and around Little Rock:
http://trailsofarkansas.blogspot.com/

Some recommendations:
Pinnacle Mountain
Two Rivers
River Trail
Burns Park

This book (can get Kindle Version pretty cheap) has even more trail maps and descriptions:
http://www.amazon.com/Trails-Central-Arkansas-Guide-Water-ebook/dp/B00LAWXAXG/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=

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> You have no choose if they remove Net Neutrality.

Tommy opens a lemonaid stand on his street. He offers a great product for a great price and is rewarded with lots of happy customers. However, Tommy gets greedy and decides to triple his prices and water down the lemonaid to make more money. One of the customers complains and her daugher Sally opens a stand of her own just a few houses down. Sally charges half of what you do and doesn't water down her lemonaid. Now Sally has all of Tommy's customers - even his mom.

> Arkansas is already under Comcast monopoly.

False, but again, this is mostly irrelevant as net neutrality will not magically give consumers more ISP choices.

> Economic history shows that business will reach monopolies without the government regulation.

Negative. History shows that 99.999% of monopolies occur when government creates them.

> Look up Antitrust Laws.

Already have. Read this. TL;DR anti-trust laws historically punish entrepreneurs for driving down prices. They are anti-consumer.

> Also you're not paying cheaper for sites you don't use, and saying "oh well I don't use these kinds of sites so it isn't detrimental to me" is shitty because that's why cable television is so shitty now.

Totally wrong. The government regulates broadcast TV! I would cite that as a huge reason netflix, amazon prime, etc are doing so well. Your position is to extend this regulation to the internet too! Granted, I concede that the Obama Administration did a good job of not using title II powers but that's only one administration.

>Also site a source about MetroPCS incident.

Here ya go.

Bullshit


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