Day 6 - November 9 - Little Rock, Arkansas - President Clinton Library and Washington village
We slept great in our motel this past night. This morning we noticed that our room door was literally 100 feet from the on-ramp to Interstate 40. We could hear airplanes landing (near the airport), trains running during (near the rail line) and tons of tractor trailers accelerating on the on-ramp, but we slept great! Go figure.
Now I thought it was a good idea to pack a fire extinguisher in our little trunk kit box in our car trunk for the trip. Someday we may need it. Who knows. Well today when we were loading the trunk, the last item we put in, somehow hit the activation lever and suddenly the fire extinguisher was spraying all over the trunk. It really looked like our trunk was on fire. There were people coming over to help with the fire. It was a mess inside the trunk, white soda powder all over the inside of the trunk, our suitcases, bags, clothes, etc etc. I was hoping that no one called the fire department. It really looked like a smoking trunk. We closed the trunk and drove off.
We headed to the William Clinton Presidential Library. Pres Clinton is memorable for our generation from 1993 to 2000. The building and the grounds are very well done. The inspiration for the building's interior is a modern version of the Long Room in the Old Library at Trinity College, Dublin. The installations, exhibits, videos and memorabilia are very well done and we both enjoyed it very much. There is even a to-scale replica of the Oval Office as it was in Clinton's terms with the Resolute Desk and paintings etc. There is a cabinet room also. The presidential limo that Clinton used during his term was also there on display on the main floor. When we visited the LBJ ranch three years ago in Texas, an old Air Force One airplane used by Johnson was on display. I guess nothing Presidential ever gets thrown out.
We had a lovely lunch with locally sourced food at the restaurant there at the library. The portions were so big, I took a take-away box and finished my humongous Cobb Salad for supper tonight. It was delicious! Norm had a Presidential-sized Club Sandwich with Sweet Potato Fries that he enjoyed.
After lunch we toured the "Tiny House" installation in the Special Exhibits area of the Library. A whole Tiny House has been installed here and we went inside. The Tiny House feels pretty spacious but I am not sure two people could live there, soon there could be just one living there. Also if one lived in a Tiny House one pretty well needs an outdoor leisure/deck/outside living space. This Tiny House had one and it really added to the livability of the whole place. My question is where does the tiny junk go and the tiny clothes and the tiny shoes/boots/sandals, and never mind the tiny books, and other tiny hobbies one could contain in a Tiny House. I think one could have three sets of clothes maximum if one lived in a Tiny House. Also one could only have a tiny cat and a tiny dog.
Also in the library, they had a special exhibit of American Crafts, from the year of the Craft from the Clinton term. These were wonderful and exquisite crafts. Glass, quilt, forged and ceramic items that were amazing. These were truly works of art. I took a photo of a glass installation in the reflecting pool of the library grounds. There was also an old railway bridge that has been transformed into a pedestrian and cycling bridge over the Arkansas River. Wonder why they can't do that for the Prince of Wales bridge between Ottawa and Gatineau??
From here we got on the highway to get some miles in toward our objective, the kids!! After the fire extinguisher incident this morning we forgot to gas-up at the start of the day so we got off the highway as we had seen a sole gas station sign before the off ramp. We needed gas and this place was in the middle of no-where, literally. No one around, no one at the gas tanks and the store. There at the front corner of the place outside was a vacuum for cleaning one's car. I went in to get a drink, asked the store clerk about the vacuum outside. She said she did not know they had one outside. It was like time had never moved in this place. Norm gassed up the car. Then all of a sudden, big-boy trucks, tractor trailers, cars and trailers etc started coming in for gas or whatever. It was as if some director called "action" and the world started arriving at this gas station.
I started taking our things out of the trunk and vacuuming up the white dry fine soda sand. I shook out our bags, and vacuumed the trunk. It looked like we lived in our car. I had a little pile of our bags, and recycle bags with stuff, and clothes by the car. We have seen cars where obviously people are living in their cars. We had our pile of belongings assembled all in front of all this action. The auto vacuum worked great and I put in coins for two cycles and I was done. We put our stuff back into the trunk and hit the road. That was one weird place.
We then drove to Washington Village State Park. It is a set up similar to our Upper Canada Village. It was very well done. But time marches on, we wished we could have seen each building but the sun was starting to get lower and we had another hour and a bit to drive to get to Texarkana, right on the border of Arkansas and Texas - yipee we are almost there! We made it just as the sun was starting to go down and I managed to get some sunset photos. Once at the hotel I picked up some cleaning cloths to wipe off the last bits of fire extinguisher sand. I have a feeling we will see this stuff every time we open the car trunk for a long time to come.
Now we are watching the female Ghostbuster's movie. One more sleep and we are there! I have to get to bed because it will be Lu-playtime for us tomorrow afternoon!!
Always, there is always one more niggling mental note that did not get addressed during the day. This morning I noticed that the car was covered in white splash-spots. The ones on the windshield would not go away after using windshield washer and the wipers. Norm used the medicinal alcohol we have in the car to get rid of the several spots on the windshield at the gas station we stopped at. The spots are perhaps spray from one of those accelerating tractor trailers that went nearby the car overnight. We forgot to take care of this today. On the last road trip, we were following a tractor trailer that was dripping some substance, we moved away but there were spots forever on the hood after that. The spots ate right through the paint over time.
Now I thought it was a good idea to pack a fire extinguisher in our little trunk kit box in our car trunk for the trip. Someday we may need it. Who knows. Well today when we were loading the trunk, the last item we put in, somehow hit the activation lever and suddenly the fire extinguisher was spraying all over the trunk. It really looked like our trunk was on fire. There were people coming over to help with the fire. It was a mess inside the trunk, white soda powder all over the inside of the trunk, our suitcases, bags, clothes, etc etc. I was hoping that no one called the fire department. It really looked like a smoking trunk. We closed the trunk and drove off.
We headed to the William Clinton Presidential Library. Pres Clinton is memorable for our generation from 1993 to 2000. The building and the grounds are very well done. The inspiration for the building's interior is a modern version of the Long Room in the Old Library at Trinity College, Dublin. The installations, exhibits, videos and memorabilia are very well done and we both enjoyed it very much. There is even a to-scale replica of the Oval Office as it was in Clinton's terms with the Resolute Desk and paintings etc. There is a cabinet room also. The presidential limo that Clinton used during his term was also there on display on the main floor. When we visited the LBJ ranch three years ago in Texas, an old Air Force One airplane used by Johnson was on display. I guess nothing Presidential ever gets thrown out.
We had a lovely lunch with locally sourced food at the restaurant there at the library. The portions were so big, I took a take-away box and finished my humongous Cobb Salad for supper tonight. It was delicious! Norm had a Presidential-sized Club Sandwich with Sweet Potato Fries that he enjoyed.
After lunch we toured the "Tiny House" installation in the Special Exhibits area of the Library. A whole Tiny House has been installed here and we went inside. The Tiny House feels pretty spacious but I am not sure two people could live there, soon there could be just one living there. Also if one lived in a Tiny House one pretty well needs an outdoor leisure/deck/outside living space. This Tiny House had one and it really added to the livability of the whole place. My question is where does the tiny junk go and the tiny clothes and the tiny shoes/boots/sandals, and never mind the tiny books, and other tiny hobbies one could contain in a Tiny House. I think one could have three sets of clothes maximum if one lived in a Tiny House. Also one could only have a tiny cat and a tiny dog.
Also in the library, they had a special exhibit of American Crafts, from the year of the Craft from the Clinton term. These were wonderful and exquisite crafts. Glass, quilt, forged and ceramic items that were amazing. These were truly works of art. I took a photo of a glass installation in the reflecting pool of the library grounds. There was also an old railway bridge that has been transformed into a pedestrian and cycling bridge over the Arkansas River. Wonder why they can't do that for the Prince of Wales bridge between Ottawa and Gatineau??
From here we got on the highway to get some miles in toward our objective, the kids!! After the fire extinguisher incident this morning we forgot to gas-up at the start of the day so we got off the highway as we had seen a sole gas station sign before the off ramp. We needed gas and this place was in the middle of no-where, literally. No one around, no one at the gas tanks and the store. There at the front corner of the place outside was a vacuum for cleaning one's car. I went in to get a drink, asked the store clerk about the vacuum outside. She said she did not know they had one outside. It was like time had never moved in this place. Norm gassed up the car. Then all of a sudden, big-boy trucks, tractor trailers, cars and trailers etc started coming in for gas or whatever. It was as if some director called "action" and the world started arriving at this gas station.
I started taking our things out of the trunk and vacuuming up the white dry fine soda sand. I shook out our bags, and vacuumed the trunk. It looked like we lived in our car. I had a little pile of our bags, and recycle bags with stuff, and clothes by the car. We have seen cars where obviously people are living in their cars. We had our pile of belongings assembled all in front of all this action. The auto vacuum worked great and I put in coins for two cycles and I was done. We put our stuff back into the trunk and hit the road. That was one weird place.
We then drove to Washington Village State Park. It is a set up similar to our Upper Canada Village. It was very well done. But time marches on, we wished we could have seen each building but the sun was starting to get lower and we had another hour and a bit to drive to get to Texarkana, right on the border of Arkansas and Texas - yipee we are almost there! We made it just as the sun was starting to go down and I managed to get some sunset photos. Once at the hotel I picked up some cleaning cloths to wipe off the last bits of fire extinguisher sand. I have a feeling we will see this stuff every time we open the car trunk for a long time to come.
Now we are watching the female Ghostbuster's movie. One more sleep and we are there! I have to get to bed because it will be Lu-playtime for us tomorrow afternoon!!
Always, there is always one more niggling mental note that did not get addressed during the day. This morning I noticed that the car was covered in white splash-spots. The ones on the windshield would not go away after using windshield washer and the wipers. Norm used the medicinal alcohol we have in the car to get rid of the several spots on the windshield at the gas station we stopped at. The spots are perhaps spray from one of those accelerating tractor trailers that went nearby the car overnight. We forgot to take care of this today. On the last road trip, we were following a tractor trailer that was dripping some substance, we moved away but there were spots forever on the hood after that. The spots ate right through the paint over time.
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