Down A Gravel Road

Down A Gravel Road
Finding Curry Road

Welcome to the Adventures of Living On Curry Road

Rye, Arkansas is located eleven miles north of Warren, AR, fifteen miles west of Monticello, AR and approximately thirty miles south of Pine Bluff, AR. Rye has been the home of the Curry family for over five generations. This family has farmed this land producing cattle, chickens, timber. The area is beautiful and the family culture is equally impressive with its generations of family that continue to live by the standards that made America a great country.

Rye, AR and the Curry family are a story of strong American values and the building of personal character, the love of God and a lot of very hard dedicated work. Donald Curry and Kay Curry are the current owners of most of the original farm land originally developed by the generations of Curry family. Kay Curry is the daughter of Jimmy and Hazel Baker and married Donald over fifty years ago. Both have continued the legacy of the farm life on Curry Road. Donald and Kay have raised a family of two daughters and one son. Mark Curry currently operates a cattle operation as well as four chicken houses on his part of the property. Lisa Tooke, wife of Dennis Tooke of Lake Charles, La and Donna Curry, of Little Rock, AR plan to retire back to the farm land when thier retirement time comes.

Jane and I were asked to help in a restoration of the 104 year old house shown above. We are so blessed to be allowed to have input as well as provide a labor of love to help restore this house to its original beauty for Donald and Kay Curry

As Jane and I came into the property with our RV, we came down the gravel road leading to Curry Road. We came down this gravel road and had to stop and take a picture. We are including that picture with this overview so you too can see the beauty of this area.

It reminded us of the book “The Painted House” by John Grisham and we hope you will get the same response.

Jane, Carl and Charlie Pierce







Monday, December 12, 2011

The Cooking Ladies Noted Cook Book Authors, Traveling Journalists And Great Friends

Our very dear friends Phyliss (Hinz) and Lamont (McKay) better known as The Cooking Ladies (www.thecookingladies.com) (Donald on the left)  visited with Jane and me this past Thursday.
We had a chance to introduce them to Donald and Kay while the ladies were on their way to another season of RV traveling reporting on luxury resort locations, attractions and recipe collections from across this country and Canada.

Phyllis (above left)  and Lamont (above right) are two happy Canadian ladies that Jane and I met several years ago while RVing in Florida.  Both have been restaurant owners and noted chefs all their lives.  Several years ago, they decided to partner up, sell their restaurants and trade all of their possessions for a luxury motor home and travel the USA and Canada and experience the life of recreational vehicle traveling while continuing to pursue their love of culinary interest.   They are authors of several cook books that have been best sellers in Canada and are very well recognized in the USA.  Currently they are contributing to RV Lifestyle, one of the largest Canadian publication for the Canadian RV industry as well as working on several TV projects and programs.

You really need to go to their website, www.thecookingladies.com. and to their face book pages and check them out.  (They are piloting a new recipe comment page and your participation could help them with their eventual TV opportunities)  The videos of their appearances at many national RV trade shows  are are guaranteed to make you laugh and just feel good.

They shared stories of their recent trip to Cuba (but have opted not to include that on their videos as yet).  Canadians can go to Cuba and many do but Phyllis and Lamont, as we have grown to expect, took a couple of "off the beaten path" visits with some local Cuban nationals.  Some how they became involved with a very private and personal voodoo ceremony and learned far more than they ever wanted to know about the voodoo culture.  Seems they have a strong feeling of protection now?   That story was indeed funny but they also became involved with a caring and giving effort to the Cuban people as usual demonstrating the cooking ladies great love for people and compassion for all.

A special thanks to the ladies for coming and visiting with us and we know they will have great posts
and funny stories on their continuing face book pages and website.



All too soon, the ladies were "on the road again" after leaving us with a happy smile on our face and a need to see them again soon.

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