Bruce "Part of this complete breakfast" K.'s Profile

A little expensive ($45 for 12 miles from the Wal-Mart ISD building to XNA), but they arrived promptly and the driver was friendly and professional. I'd use them again if work was paying for it.

Most of Zaxby's is fried chicken but I went with the Cajun Club chicken sandwich, which arrived grilled (not fried) with a small stack of crinkle cut fries. Surprisingly good with lettuce, tomato, two slices of cheese and their "Zax sauce" I understand is a buffalo-ized ranch dressing. The fries were nice and crispy and topped with a sprinkling of a pepper salt. Delish. I managed to eat the entire sandwich but resisted half the fries. Yay, me!

My lunch companion had the Zansation Zalad, which looked good with a lot of lettuce and pieces of chopped fried chicken and the Honey Sesame dressing.

Drinks are available via a Coke fountain and I drank at least a half gallon of the yummy Minute Maid "lite" lemonade, refilling to go. Lunch for two was $16.

If I'm ever in the mood for another chicken sandwich, I might come back to Zaxby's.

When I really didn't want to go to Wal-Mart and deal with a huge parking lot and a long walk through the store, Dollar General fit the bill. Yes, the selection is limited, but the prices are great. Friendly service (I had to wait at the register for a minute while the cashier helped carry an elderly  customer's purchase to her car), and decent prices on merchandise.

I guess there are only so many different ways to merchandise what are pretty much the same items. This was my third auto parts story visited today and other than a little variety in layout, it seems like they all have the same exact stuff.

I was looking for a mounting bracket to put a front license plate on my wife's car. O'Reilly's has the same exact kit that they sell at the other stores - same price, same manufacturer. And still not what I needed.

Another "no purchase" but it was still nice to wander the floor and look at all the doodads and flux capacitors, thinking that there's no way I could install any of it. I'm just not vehicular capable.

This location has been a Mexican restaurant, a steak place, an Italian restaurant, then Mexican and now it's opened as an Indian restaurant. All that in just the last 7 or 8 years. This time, however, I think it's going to make it.

I heard that Chutny's is operated by an Indian family - a brother of a Wal-Mart associate. It's certainly got the authenticity down. For the moment, they only offer a buffet (even for dinner) but I understand a regular menu is on the way soon.

My wife and I stopped by and had a sampling of pretty much everything off the tables. The Vindaloo Chicken wasn't as hot as I expected, but something with potatoes nearly set my teeth on fire. The Butter Curry Chicken was awesomely flavorful with excellent pieces of chicken and lots of curry that was almost completely soaked up by a pile of white rice with the remainder being chased around the plate by a piece of naan. I can't remember anything else that was up there, but it was all good.

Thankfully, they had a cold table with various chutneys (mint, tangarine, mango) and a very fresh riata that put out some of that fire. The buffet includes sodas, but we were okay with just water. A lot of water!

Service was friendly and a bargain at $20 for two. I do hope this place makes it. It's a great meal!

Another auto parts chain, Advance seems to sell the same stuff as I have seen at the other auto parts stores. The main difference is that their aisles are diagonal. Woo.

Still, they are friendly enough and they don't mind people like me (completely automotive challenged) wandering the aisles and looking at the flux capacitors and bottles of blinker fluid.

I'm still looking for a mounting bracket for a front license plate for my wife's car. They have the same two (even the same manufacturer) as the other store. I didn't buy it.

Benton County must be the capital (or at least one of the capitals) of Mexican food. It's not just that there are a lot of them, it's that most of them are really quite good. Maria's is one of the better ones.

Located on Walnut Street, a couple of blocks down from the Wal-Mart, there is plenty of parking. Large dining room with mostly four-top tables and they don't mind pushing a couple of them together for larger parties. Lunch specials range from $5 to $8 and include the usual variety of tortillas (corn or flour), meat (chicken, beef, carnitas) or spinach, and cheese with some sort of sauce on top plus rice and beans. It's hard to go wrong.

Hard to believe, but there are over 4000 Autozone stores in the US. I have probably only been into 2 or 3, but this one looks exactly like every other one. Five aisles of car parts, nearly organized and labeled by category.

I'm far from a DIY car mechanic. My skill set tops out somewhere just above refilling the windshield washer fluid. In an emergency I can change a tire, but I'd rather call AAA. And I'm perfectly fine with paying someone to change the oil. I know little about car maintenance or repair, but I do know that if I needed a replacement flux capacitor, Autozone would be where I would turn.

Still, I like browsing an Autozone. The clerks don't jump on you and they don't seem to mind someone wandering the aisles who is imagining being able to install some of these doodads in his own vehicle.

Today, I was looking for a mounting bracket so that I could put a vanity license plate on the front of my wife's car. They had two different models on the shelves, but neither would be a good fit.

Fast food meets Mexican food. This is a notch or two above Taco Bell with a more comfortable restaurant and food that doesn't appear to have been extruded from a large icing funnel / caulk gun.

My chicken enchilada was served with a reasonable portion of rice and beans and a good scoop of guacamole that tasted quite fresh. Plenty of chicken in there and the sauce on top was tasty. The chips were crunchy and not stale at all.

Don't skip the salsa bar, which has pico de gallo, red and green salsas as well as onions and cilantro. The soda fountain had my second favorite, Minute Maid Lemonade with Spenda (5 calories a cup). (My top fave is plain soda water.) The cup was refillable and I topped up before leaving.

Located towards the back of the plaza, next to the Wal-Mart and behind the Backyard Burgers. Sadly, no wifi signal.

Conveniently located next to the highway with a double drive-through, this McD's is easy to get into and easy to get out of. The staff is hit-or-miss depending on the time of day. Bonus: free wifi.