Continuing what is now a yearly tradition, we looked for a way to get outdoors and away from DFW around the Fourth of July holiday.  While this has generally involved herding various cats (read: children, adult and otherwise) towards Arkansas and the Buffalo River, we increasingly find that scheduling is complicated.  Given schedules, we gave up on trying to include family members.  We had both blocked the week off from work but with teenager work schedule, we decided to break up travel into two quick trips instead of spending the whole week out of town. This would allow for a few days in between to check on a teenager at home, keeping one of our party from fearing the worst depredations of unsupervised high-schoolers.