Stats
Miles traveled: 177.7
Miles traveled to date: 4468.0
States visited today: 2 – Arkansas, Oklahoma
States visited to date: 14
Tanks of gas pumped to date: 15
Meltdowns: 15
Loads of Laundry: 19
Illness: 4
Socks lost or destroyed: 5
Daily recap
Today, we visited the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site, then drove across Arkansas to the Oklahoma border to visit Fort Smith, and had dinner at a brewpub.
Highlights
Visiting Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site
Little Rock Central High School is still being used today. We visited on a Saturday, so it was pretty quiet.
The flagpole in the background was several stories tall.
Other photos from today
This display listed the rights different types of people would have had in the 18th century, depending on the color of your skin, your sex, and whether or not you owned property or paid taxes.
This National Park required a lot of reading and learning in order to answer the questions to get the Junior Ranger badge. Ainsley did a great job reading a lot of big and unfamiliar words.
Ainsley stopped partway through reading this passage about “separate but equal” to exclaim “but that’s not fair!”
Rayleigh and Dillon were really interested in the interactive displays.
Grayson made himself cozy on the carpet while he worked on his Junior Ranger booklet.
Dillon exploring the Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site.
Ainsley and Grayson took the pledge for their Junior Ranger badges at Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site.
There would have been up to 50 prisoners in this jail at once. A ratio of 50 prisoners to 2 buckets used as toilets is much worse than our ratio of 6 people to 1 bathroom in our house!
Ainsley trying out the prisoners’ sleeping accommodations. This place wasn’t called “Hell on the Border” for nothing.
We’re sorry, Dad! We won’t do it again!
Second Junior Ranger badge for the day: check!
Part of the original Fort Smith site. The foundations were made out of stone, but the walls were made out of wood, so only the foundations survived.
This was the cistern for the officers’ quarters at Fort Smith.
And now for your moment of zen…
I bet it’s set to January 1st, 1970, at midnight UTC.
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