Travelodge Bentonville

Faces of Middle America

by Ekahau

"Jill -- welcome to VT."

I love capturing the feeling of a place with its people, getting an understand from the faces the culture sense of the area. The photos taken on this trip were from around the Bentonville area - but most of them were taken in an early morning "Photo stake out" at the local wal*mart store entrance as people were coming and going, doing what Bentionvillers love to do most shop at Wal*mart.

"Mom is an accountant at Walmat move here from Ohio"

Jill in the Photo above was born in Bentonville Middle school student mom and dad both work at walmart -- Jill stated here families heritage best - we are all from America she advised with a kind of look of wonder. Are you from a newspaper? Yes I said the VT times., read all about it - Go to google type in "Ekahau Bentonville" and you can see your photo and story. so hello Jill welcome to VT. I hope 8th grade is a great year for you

Jennifers with the Krispy Kream hat on -- family move to Bentonville from Ohio and they are a mixture of "French English and well everything else"

"George"

Family from Oaxaca Mexico but Geroge was born in the Rio grande valley in Texas.

"Cherokee nation"

Proud member of the Cherokee nation had family member that was a buffalo soldier and walked the Trail of Tears. By the way he advises, the trail of tears when the Native Americans were forced to move to Oklahoma runs right through this part of Arkansas. I looked it up on google it does .

"Nation of Islam"

I am a member of the Nation of Islam she advised but was not frankly(and who can blame her) not all that intrested in chatting with a stranger.

"Christine’s eyes"

Now this was a wonderful family in Bentonville for medical treatment at the very nice new medical treatment facility built in Northwest Arkansas. Very proud of their doctor Orlando Aguilar-Guzman, MD who they felt was he “best in the World” The rest of the story is very sad and broke this VTers heart but as I stood talking to this nice family while watching Christine’s eyes. It came to me once again why I like to travel my story on my home page came flooding back.

I think you can see it all in really can as she holds her stuffed animal close to her.

"Party Town"

advised that Bentionville is really a party town with all the new young people flocking to the jobs from all over the world. this is a wilder place than you may think

"Just Married"

on a new Adventure in her life as she moves into Bentionville with her new husband.