re: Taking the kids camping in Arkansas and have a few questions.

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Bring thermacell and toilet paper. You can survive a couple days without everything else.

95 degrees in the woods isn't as bad as 95 in the concrete city. I wouldn't worry about the heat.

I'd imagine a fishing license is legally required, but I would check before I bought one.

Bring stuff for starting a fire, in case it's raining. Don't burn down a National Forest though, even though it is in Arkansas.

Catch something and cook it over a fire. Fish, lizard, snake, something. One of the fondest memories I have as a young boy was my grandfather starting a fire with a flare while we were squirrel hunting and cooking a squirrel on a stick over it in the middle of the woods. It was covered in hair and soot, but I can still taste it and remember his voice. He knew what he was doing.