Little Rock, Arkansas

We left West Memphis, Arkansas this past Thursday after a great visit with our friends the Cover’s who met up with us in their RV.  We now begin our two and half week trip to Southern California where we will spend the winter.  Our first stop was just a short distance as we wanted to see the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock.  If you are an avid follower of this blog you will remember reading about our goal to see all the Presidential libraries.  I have four to go (Both Bush libraries, Clinton and Ford) and Fran has five as she has not seen the Johnson library (I caught it while on a business trip).

We found an RV park that is just across the river from the library.  It is in North Little Rock and is adjacent to a pedestrian bridge that goes directly to the library.  The little park is owned by the city and is nothing special except for its location to downtown Little Rock and the great rates they charge.  They offer every discount and accept all membership clubs so for 4 nights it cost us $50 for a full hook up site with free Wi-Fi. 

  Picture of the park from the bridge to the library.  We are against the wall, fourth up from the bottom.

Here is the bridge that takes you directly to the Clinton Library.

The library has been called a double wide on stilts as it is box shaped and raised so that it looks over the river and is above the flood plain.

Here is a front view

Here is a view that shows you why it gets its nickname.

It is a beautiful library both inside and out and is very informative in presenting information on his presidency.

His Presidential limo

Inside of the library from the the third floor. 

A recreation of the White House Cabinet Room with Fran sitting in the President’s chair.

Replica of the Clinton Oval Office

Following our tour of the library we went to the River Market area of Little Rock which is only a couple of blocks away.  Here we had lunch and then took a walk to the Old State House.  This is where Clinton announced his candidacy to become President and where he gave his speech after winning the first election.

We leave on Monday with stops in Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and then into California.  The route is one that we have traveled many times and a couple of the stops are at parks we have been at before, so probably not much to report for the next couple of weeks.