August 2023
We've been preparing our house to rent and travel for a year.
This involves months of minor but time consuming repairs and yardwork but mostly purging our belongings, vehicles, bicycles, you name it, putting the rest in storage, etc.
So by August, by some miracle, we're ahead of schedule.
So we hand the keys off to our property managers (who are amazing btw) and get the heck out of town, cause it's 105 degrees!
First stop Bentonville AR
You're probably asking where's that and why?
Bentonville is in Northwest Arkansas, a beautiful place all by itself, and is the home of Walmart.
Yes Walmart.
The Walton family have an amazing museum called Crystal Bridges.
https://crystalbridges.org/
Let's let the photos do the talking for now.
Let's start with this...
They relocated a Frank Lloyd Wright house from New Jersey that was being flooded , in jeopardy, and couldn't remain at it's original location.
Yep, dismantled it, labeled everything, moved it cross country, reassembled, and restored it.
They don't allow interior photos so visit their website for all the details:
https://crystalbridges.org/architecture/frank-lloyd-wright-bachman-wilson-house/
The architecture is incredible and the complex straddles a creek. More info here:
https://crystalbridges.org/architecture/moshe-safdie/
Norman Rockwell?
Yeah we got that.
The cafeteria...
Giant spider and monster serpent sculptures...
along a network of hike and bike trails...
Why not?
Huge galleries
Disco globes in a mirrored room?
Of course
Canoe sculpture
Buckminster's Fly Eye Dome
https://crystalbridges.org/architecture/flys-eye-dome/
That just scratches the surface of what is on display, yes it's in NW Arkansas, and you can thank Walmart.
It's an amazing place (and the town is great) so go visit!
https://www.visitbentonville.com/
https://www.arkansas.com/bentonville
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentonville,_Arkansas
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