http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , Arkansas , Little Rock en-us Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:42:04 UTC Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:42:04 UTC We finally got to Little Rock and had only lost half a day in Nashville. I am not a big city person but found Little Rock was easy to get around and next morning on 923 we gathered ourselves to visit the William Jefferson Clinton Library and Museum. This was a required visit as one of Bets favorite prezs is little Willie Clinton. The building was ultramodern and Bets remarked that it remind http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-331177.html 82008 Dad and Vern were in Pine Bluff Arkansas last night they figure they've travelled about 1500 miles so far.82108 Reporting in from Mena Arkansas the Magic Scooter team is at about 3000 ft above sea level. An armadillo walked by Dad as he was on the phone with me. He says they've hit alot of rain but only his hands are getting wet because of the great rain gear they have. This is a ph http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-314810.html Had a fine flight to Little Rock Arkansas otherwise known as the DEVIL'S OVEN It was over 100 degrees and it sure wasn't a dry heat. We had about a 4 hour drive to our destination in Reeds Springs MO. Drove by or close to colorful little areas like Pickles Gap and Toad Suck Park home of the Toad Suck Catfish Inn. After looking for over an hour for a 'local' restaurant along the way they we http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-308447.html There was an earthquake in Chengdu. 7.9. 8500 people killed. Schools collapsing. I wonder if these were some of the schools we were supposed to visit. I wonder if these are friends of Martha. It's horrible. http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-275628.html First the news via Anne Culver...THEN KEEP READING FOR HOW THIS DAY REALLY ENDED....The C2C crew filed for 1 pm CT departure from Mountain Home after a funfilled threeday visit. Wrote Anne Culver relayed from Bob Hawkins As far as I can tell the townspeople will have a parade today led of course by the Blues Brothersrsquo Chevy but I have no information if the parade is before they lea http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-274755.html Martha Morton called said I owed her some things. It seems I never turned in my Culture III assignment I did that... DIDN'T I and I didn't turn in my signed waiver form think I just spaced on that walked out with it I have to give her some dissemination plan. Dang I don't know how I'm going to disseminate information about China right now. Right now I'm not completely sure how I http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-272597.html I feel so overwhelmed at the thought of trying to have everything done before we leave on June 6th. June 5th is our last day of semester exams so I won't even have a work day between classes and leaving much less a day for organizing and packing.I keep thinking of things I need to do but I'm so scattered. LikeI need to call the credit card company tell them I'm going to China so pretty ple http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-272273.html I got a notice on my forum query about Ryokan Rikiya. This was encouraging. Ryokan Rikiya review http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-271914.html I've been working on getting donations for our gifts to the Chinese schools. So far I've contacted the state house the Hot Springs Department of Tourism The Arkansas Heritage Society a couple of places in D.C. Disney what could be more American an my senator. The smaller the place is the more willing they seem to be to donate. Today I got a sack of pens and arkansas shaped notepads from http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-271708.html I have been trying for a month to find a place for Susie and me to stay while we're in Kyoto Japan. I really wanted traditional Japanese for our stay. At first I researched researched for the perfect place and I finally came up with this place the Heianbo . Unfortunately they were booked. Then I tried another place... and another... and another. I was getting desperate. Fortunately s http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-271702.html Day two of the workshop started at a much more reasonable time 900 a.m. with some Tai Chi. I don't know if I would like it. Mostly I felt awkward but everyone else did too. I think I'll stick with Yoga. The nice thing about Yoga is that you can feel when you get it right and the time in the positions is much longer allowing for selfadjustments meditation. But I can see the appeal of http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-271699.html We had our first day of the twoday workshop beginning at the crack of dawn. We had to be at the UALR campus at the obscene time of 715 for a 730 three mile hike. I was a little trepidatious about this part of the test. I have lost 22 lbs since January but honestly I haven't ever gotten into an exercise habit. Still I'm a tough girl. I didn't know that the leader of this thing was goin http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-271697.html Obfuscator writes The night of storms in Texarkana continued through the morning. We drove into town to check out some of the sights. Of course since it was basically pouring on us we didn't feel it necessary to look too closely. We did stop at the Post Office which straddles the state line and is quite lovely. In front of it is a little statue to the Confederacy of course which was als http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-262161.html Today was the first of all the days off in Dallas I actually got up in time for breakfast. Therersquos nothing quite like waffles in the shape of Texas. Craig was at the bus shop so Beth and I just hung out in our room well actually I was checking me eyelids for holes if you know what I mean. Craig came and got us and took us to the shop Beth left us from there in the van headed for L http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-255307.html Hello from Hazen AR.Two uneventful days for the most part. Arrived in Nashville mid afternoon and had some barbeque at Jackrsquos on Broadway. Actually the back door of Jackrsquos opens to the back stage entrance of the Ryman Auditorium. I saw some of the folks who performed Saturday night in Jackrsquos.The Grand Ole Opry was in the Ryman Auditorium and it was a great experience. Got to http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-216951.html Blog 6 October 2007Still in Buenos Aires and no Iguazu Falls for us unfortunately. We arrived at the domestic airport having stored most of our luggage at the hostel and were issued boarding passes. This is always a good thing when lsquostaffrsquotravelling. We were very excited. I had booked a hostel at Iguazu it was going to be a quick trip but we would have had enough time to see the Devi http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-211470.html Taking Paul's uncle's advice we stopped at the tourist info center when we got to Arkansas. We picked up a couple of brochures for crystal mining and continued on our way to Memphis. We hadn't planned any stops along the way but found a place near enough to the highway that we decided to spend a day mining. Here's how it worked it's a real active crystal mine that dumps its leavings in a sep http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-170462.html YES That was the salutation topcenter upon opening my college acceptance letter 15 years ago. A pretty happy moment. In fact I was ecstatic. YYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Is more the way I am feeling as Erin Cleetus and LolaBelle in spirit and I close up shop in Little Rock. House sold all goods in storage indefinitely except for a weekrsquos wort http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-150711.html Little Rock is well Little. Flew in on Northwest. Pretty uneventful but those little planes are no fun. Sure they are jets but these days that's nothin fancy. I thought I would be sitting close to the front when I saw my boarding card had me in seat 10D. Not so 10D was only two from the back close enough to smell the toilet and loud enough to hear the engines attached to the rear fuselage http://www.travelblog.org//North-America/United-States/Arkansas/Little-Rock/blog-123519.html