Monday, June 2, 2018
We regret that we didn’t allow for more time to be spent in Oklahoma City. There are things to see and do there that would have easily filled a full day. However, before heading to Little Rock, Arkansas, we made time to visit the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.
The Museum is in a gorgeous modern building, and just like other museums we’ve tried to take in with limited time, we couldn’t enjoy all it offered. It featured an American Rodeo Gallery offering tributes to movie cowboys, a native American gallery, an American rodeo gallery, large sculptures-both indoor and outdoor, and art of the West. There was an interesting map of all of the native American tribes that existed across North America, before they were all forced onto reservations and/or forced to move from their traditional lands. There was an annual art competition underway where the selected participants displayed their work and offered it up for sale. (We couldn’t take pictures of the artwork.) The talent of these current artists is spectacular, and many of the pieces had been sold. Too bad we couldn’t afford to invest in an up and coming artist, but the lowest price I saw was $1,800 for an itsy, bitsy painting.
As we’ve driven East, we’ve also headed back into humidity. It started in Oklahoma City and it followed us into Arkansas. Along with the humidity has also come green landscapes. We are now back in the land of deciduous trees and weather but, we can no longer gaze far off into the horizon. We have experienced drizzle the past two days, something we hadn’t seen for the entire time we’ve been gone. I suppose all of this is preparing us for being back home.
We arrived in Little Rock at 8:00 pm and after an extremely mediocre dinner at a local Italian restaurant we headed back to our hotel. We may get to bed early tonight, something we haven’t gotten into the habit of doing despite our early wake-ups. So far, we have traveled for more than 7,777.7 miles (a lucky 5-digit number); and still counting. Tomorrow we drive to Memphis where we’ll spend time with cousins Skip and Susan Rossen. We will be putting the blog on hold until after we leave their home.
Happy 4th of July to everyone. (Jonathan… Happy Birthday!!!!!!!!)
BY THE WAY WITH WENDY & DAN 
Happy July 4th! Excited to see that my birthday made it into the blog.
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