Well we passed through Little Rock Arkansas for the soul purpose of seeing the Bill Clinton Museum, well we got to the museum and we found that it was $7 dollars a person to get in. Well bringing the conservatives we are, we agreed we wouldn't even spend $28 dollars to get into the George Bush Museum, never mind blow me Clinton! So we bid the the really clean and nice city of Little Rock good bye and sped off towards Oklahoma City. On the way we decided to stop at the home town of Carrie Underwood in some little town in Oklahoma, which was a crazy experience let me tell you that. There was one main road, a little housing development and then the HS which was right next to the high school football stadium which was bigger then any stadium in Western Mass.
High school football is king down here, we discussed the job prospects of growing up in this area of the country, and for the male's of this section of the nation the plan is simple, work out and become great at football and go to college and play ball, or graduate from high school at age 18 and move right into the hard labor of farming and oil drilling and never move out of town. Yeah talk about bleak prospects =)
Luke's mom tonight Aunt Denise text-ed me about an hour ago and being the woman she is, her and Uncle Jim are buying us a hotel room tonight in Amarillo! It's a worthy motivation to drive long and hard again today, we are still on I40 West, it seems like their isn't much in this part of the country to stop and see besides the little 5 building towns and the big capital cities. The landscape has changed drastically since we left Memphis, it started out flat and farms lands in Eastern Arkansas and then moved into a mountainous range, and now since we entered Oklahoma it has turned back to flat prairies and lot's of cows and broken down cars. (BTW we just passed our first oil rig! a noteworthy landmark for sure)
The drive of the great west is like the drain in the shower, the pull of the current of the great American west is drawing us closer and closer. We don't want to spend a lot of time stopping in these towns of nothingness when places such as the Grand Canyon and the string of National Parks is luring us closer.
P.S. The pull over is still stuck at 5, matter of fact we haven't even seen very many police officers.
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