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Month Two: Valentine's Day (and more) in Bentonville, AR

We continue our Year of Months on Valentine's Day. Alice Walton (the only daughter of Sam, and the "wild" child ) build the art museum Crystal Bridges in 2011 (opened 11.11.11) for about $1.2 billion, and has filled it with her own art. The museum sits on 150 acres of the old Walton family backyard in Bentonville, AR, and is, quite frankly, beautiful.  But, as always, we started in on a United flight out of Houston. This time a small Embraer that is an easy plane to get to like. (If you can wrangle an emergency exit row) On the plane The airport serves Bentonville, Fayetteville, and Springdale in Northwestern Arkansas. It was a little father from the hotel than I had thought it would be, but our Uber driver did give us a tour of the area, driving us by all the new Walmart properties (with our permission, of course). Truly astounding. The hotel, called the 21C Museum Hotel , part of a small chain, was a very short walk from the museum property. Vie