Our trip lasted 18 days, so a one-post travelogue would be exceedingly long and exceedingly boring, so I'll take it one day at a time.
We left Wednesday evening, hoping to make it to Texarkana, but not quite making it. We were about 3 hours behind schedule, trying to get all the last-minute stuff done.
So we didn't make it into Little Rock until Thursday afternoon. We got off the freeway and made our way across the Arkansas River to the Arkansas State Capitol. It's a pretty building and the guard gave the boys Arkansas coloring books with all the trivia about Arkansas that you could ever want to know, and little Arkansas State flags. We saw the portrait of Governor Clinton, and that was about all we had time for before the building closed to visitors. The boys did find a great big boulder on the capitol grounds, which we thought might have been Little Rock's namesake (it wasn't), so the boys climbed up for a couple of pictures and we were on our way. Little Rock is a very nice city, situated right on the Arkansas River. It has a clean and stylish downtown and the geography is very hilly, which surprised me. I had imagined it flat, for some reason. We ate at a Pizza Hut off of Cantrell Road (I think) which is a curving road along a mountainside overlooking the river.
We drove through the rest of Arkansas (which is a very pretty state, by the way), across the Mississippi, and into Tennessee. We saw Memphis by night and continued on to Jackson, TN where we stayed the night at a Motel 6.
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