Thursday, May 28

After the wonderful dinner at Cracker Barrel, we plunged on through to upstate New York. We got there somewhere between two and three in the morning, and Brooke Tevlin was there at the door to welcome us in. We weren't staying at their house actually. They had been invited to this place owned by a friend of theirs, the Wilks, and they had invited us to stay with them also. The town it was in was called Ellicottville, NY and there was a ski area there, not that it was open or anything. The next day we had a rather slow start to the day, but once everyone was up, we went to Rock City. It was a place in the woods, it was a lot like some places in the mountains of Maine and New Hampshire. There were Huge boulders there that were in all sorts of fascinating positions. One was balanced on top of another boulder, and one was made into a cave. It was a very cool place, but nothing compared to what we'd seen out west. That was MUCH more impressive. Then we went home and did some homework. Kiley had to study for her finals, and we had to do a lot of catching up since we'd be home in a couple days. The next day, we were going to go to Niagara Falls, but we decided against it. It would be just as easy for us Sulloways to go on our way back home, and Kiley needed to be studying rather than going to Niagara and taking all day doing it. So instead, we went to Sculpture Park. That place was very interesting! We drove up into this field in what seemed like nowhere, and there were suddenly these huge iron sculptures everywhere! They were all throughout the field, in the woods, in a man-made pond... everywhere! The ones in the field were taller, and many of them were of women. My favorite was this abstract square shaped one that had a neat pattern to it. Then we went to the other section of the park, where there were all sorts of different types of sculptures. One was another pond, but this pond had women in and around it, all in positions as if they were about to dive into the pond. We picnicked out there, and Cronin (the Wilks' kid), he fell off one of the sculptures and he thought he broke his arm. They took him to get a splint, but didn't do any x-rays since my dad convinced them it was better to do two days after. The morning after, we got ready to leave, and took pictures in front of the wooden ski bear that was in front of the Wilks' house. When pictures were over, we said our good buys and headed to Niagara Falls. When we got there you could see the American Falls, but it really wasn't a good view. There was an observation tower that jutted out into the gorge, and we decided to check it out. It only cost a dollar a piece, so we did it. The view from there was a little better, but not a whole lot better. There was an elevator to the bottom of the gorge, and when we took that, you got a totally different prospective. You looked up at the falls, and it was really quite amazing. We then went back to the car to eat, and then headed to the power dam to do a self guided tour. We didn't have much time before it closed, so we didn't really get through much of it, but we learned about how the dam was built, and how the water was diverted from the Niagara River. Then we decided it was time to go to the Canadian side. Of course, like everyone says, it was much better. From there you could see Horseshoe Falls, and they were so much better than the American Falls! We didn't stay long, because we had a long drive ahead of us. We drove almost to west the end of Lake Ontario (it wasn't very far) before we decided to get a campsite there, rather than drive all the way to the other side of Toronto since it'd be dark by then. The next day we did another long drive. Through Toronto we drove, and to the US border at Ogdensburg, NY. Once we crossed there, we drove to Vermont, where we stayed at a campground north of Burlington. We decided to get a cabin this time, since there was supposed to be rain in the morning, and we really didn't want to pack up the camper in the rain. The next day, we went to the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, just south of Burlington. It was a really fascinating place, where they have all these old buildings that they've flown in there from various places. They have an old luxury rail car , and a station to boot! There was also the Ticonderoga, a passenger ship that used to ferry people across Lake Champlain from Burlington to Plattsburgh, NY. There was supposed to be furniture and rugs from my mother's ancestry, but they weren't on display that day. My dad saw some Monet paintings, but I didn't see them. After the museum we visited my great uncle and my dad's cousin, and then headed home. Driving home seemed like it took five minutes, when really it took three hours! Compared to a 15 hour drive, that was nothing. It was great to get home, and Mingus and the cats were so happy to see us.

The next day we did a tour of the city. My siblings and I rode in Susan's convertible over the Golden Gate. We went to Fiserman's Warf first, and got a cheap seafood dish before going to pier 39. The sea lions there were very entertaining, but the rest of the pier was just a big tourist trap. Susan went to work, and we went and visited my dad's friend Cathy who lived in one of the victorian houses that San Francisco is famous for. On the way home, we stopped at Muir Woods, where there is a redwood forest. It was beautiful! I learned that the United Nations met there for one of their first meetings! The next morning, we packed up and got ready to head to Reno. Once we were packed up, we went to Su's hair salon where she showed us her salon and gave us all haircuts. I wasn't too impressed with mine, but I guess I'm warming up to it. It doesn't seem so bad anymore. Then we began our drive to Reno, NV. It took about four hours, and we drove over Donner pass, where the Donner party was. When we got to Reno, we met my dad's friend Jim Troop from School Year Abroad and we went to a taco restaurant. We slept at his house that night, and headed on a 9 hour drive to Park City, Utah. Nevada is probably the most boring state in the country. Yes, I mean more boring than Oklahoma. The only cool part, was when we got to the Utah state line, we went through the salt flats! They looked like snow in the middle of the desert, in May! When we got to Park City, which is on the other side (the east side) of Salt Lake City, we ate pasta at my mom's friend Cathy Beiber's apartment and set up our camper in her driveway. The next day, we did homework. I slept in 'till noon, but I still got a ton of work done. My dad cooked pork for dinner, and my mom made a great salad with fruit in it. The next day, we skied at Snowbird! It was a Friday, and they were only open on the weekends, since it was May. We had a great time, even though it was pretty soft snow. On our way back to Cathy's house, we stopped at the Olympic Park in Park City. The next day, we drove to Yellowstone. Once we got there, the entrance lady told us there was a bear down the road eating a buffalo carcass. We didn't see it, but we were really excited when she told us. We did see buffalo though. Once, we thought we saw a mountain lion in the middle of a bunch of buffalo, but it was actually a baby buffalo. It was lying down, so we couldn't tell. The next day, we went to Old Faithful. On the way, we stopped at a couple of Hot Springs and checked them out. They weren't the kind you swim in, they were the ones that you just look at. You couldn't swim in them because they were like 200 degrees! Old Faithful was cool, but what was even better, (way better) was Grand Geyser. The problem was, we waited three hours to see it! There was a four hour window that it was predicted to go off, and we got there with an hour and a half left, thinking that we'd see it soon, since it was at the later end of the prediction. We were wrong. Rob (some random guy we met that was waiting with us) saw it the day before from the lodge, and encouraged us that it was worth the wait. By the time that was over, it was the end of the day. When we got to the campsite, there were buffalo right in the middle of the campground! They weren't in our site, but they were really close! The next day, we went to Yellowstone Canyon. We hiked down a trail that took us to the lower  falls, and they were amazing! The canyon walls were all yellow, and there was snow all around the falls! After the canyon, we drove up to the northern part of the park where we were told there was a better chance at seeing a bear. We saw coyote, elk, more buffalo, and mule deer. Not until we were on our way back to the campground, did we see our first bear! There were quills in his paw, so he walked with a limp. That night, while my mom was in the bathroom, there were buffalo out (it was dark so you couldn't see them) and they must have gotten spooked or something, and they charged. They were on both sides of the bathroom, and they made quite a scary racket! The next day on our way out of the park, we saw another bear in the same spot as the day before! Closer to the exit, we say a whole bunch of people stopped, and we decided there must be something to see, so we pulled over. Some lady let us look in her telescope, and there was a wolf eating a carcass of some sort! We even watched three coyotes try to fight him for it! We couldn't stay too long, so we headed on our way again. The road we were supposed to take was closed, so we had to take a detour, which mad my dad pretty upset. It turned out that the detour was probably a much better way, since it was so scenic! It went right through the Shoshone National Forest, and it was amazing the views we had there! Then we went to the Battle of Little Big Horn Battlefield. We watched the PBS movie on it on the way there, but I didn't watch because I had too much work to do. We only stopped there for a few minutes to get a feel for how big it was, and kept driving. We stopped in Sheridan to eat, and we used the GPS to find a restaurant. The one we chose was chinese, so we asked a convenience store clerk where to eat, and he told us Perkins. We went there, and the food was sort of iffy. Then we drove to Sturgis, SD and stayed at the Rush-No-More rv park. Oh man, were we happy to have showers! FINALLY! In the morning, we went down to Mt. Rushmore. We were planning on just looking and leaving, but we decided to do the junior ranger program (we did them at every park) and that required going through the exhibit hall and watching a movie. After Rushmore, my mom wanted to see Crazy Horse (it's still being carved) so we drove to the entrance, and got a look from the road, and kept on driving. We drove clear to the other end of South Dakota, with only one or two stops, one of them being Subway, where the lady there made the crappiest Subway Subs we've ever had AND, she was wicked slow! Anyways... we stayed at a state park in eastern South Dakota, just south of Sioux City. In the morning, we woke up and drove... and drove... until we got to Davenport Iowa, where we used the first of the two Cracker Barrel gift cards that the Garners gave us. Man, was that a good meal! Now that we've done Cracker Barrel a couple times, we love it! It's too bad we don't have them in Maine! After Cracker Barrel, we drove to the hotel in Springfield, IL that we'd booked on the way to Davenport. In the morning, we went to the Lincoln Museum which was phenomenal! It had two really new theaters, and they were extremely lifelike. The exhibit halls were spectacular. They weren't like typical ones, where you read a few things and move on. There were people there talking to you, and there were also speakers where you could hear all the slave owners complaining to Lincoln and really making his life difficult! You really got the feel for how hard a time it was to be president, and how much pressure Lincoln was under. After we finished the museum, we got started on our 12ish hour drive to New York State. We went through Indianapolis, Columbus, and we stopped at another Cracker Barrel halfway between Columbus and Cleveland. Again, it was a very god meal and we all walked out stuffed!

Eww. This is disgustingly late! I just realized that I haven't written an entry for over a week! 

Zion was very beautiful! On the drive into the canyon, we drove through a tunnel. In that tunnel, there were viewpoints where a hole had been blasted through the side of the tunnel so that cars could get views of the canyon. It was pretty awesome! We got our campsite, and we met a couple from Maine! My mom kept thinking that she recognized the man, and when she talked to him, it turns out that he worked at Maine Medical Center where she works! Is that weird or what? After she talked with them, we decided to go to the visitor center and take the shuttle up the canyon. We went to weeping rock, and we learned that the water coming out of the rock was up to 4,000 years old! That night we went to a ranger program at the other campground that was about light pollution. The next morning we went to a nature walk up the canyon with a ranger. We learned all sorts of things about the environment in Zion canyon. After that we packed up our campsite and headed out on the road again. We were going towards the Grand Canyon, and we decided to make a stop at the Glen Canyon Dam. It was a short stop, and all we did really is fill out the junior ranger book. It was really easy and all we wanted was the badges. We took a look at the dam (it was huge!) and kept on driving. We were really sick of sleeping in the camper and not being able to take showers, so my parents promised us they'd get us a hotel room... with a pool!(very important!) All we could find anywhere near the Grand Canyon, was a smoking room, and it didn't have a pool anyway, so we decided we'd go to Flagstaff, an hour south. By the time we decided on Flagstaff, the car was falling apart! Well, kind of. The trailer lights weren't working, and we lost a lug nut. In the morning, we couldn't find a repair place that had the right lug nut, or was able to fix the trailer lights, so we had to go to Phoenix, the nearest place that would work on our car, since it's such a rare vehicle. We were going to my uncle's house in Scottsdale later that day anyway, so it wasn't that big of a deal, only that later on we weren't able to go to the Grand Canyon! We had a great time with my uncle and cousins. We got to see him do his irrigation that night. Since they live in the desert of Arizona, they're limited on the water that they are allowed. Every two weeks, in the middle of the night, they flood their lawn. There are canals that bring the water from the mountains, and those canals have been there since the Indians built them. The next day, we went to the Phoenix zoo. We saw all sorts of native Arizona plants and animals. When we got home, we had to decide where we were going to go the next day. Since we had to miss the Grand Canyon on the way to my uncle's, we thought we should put it back in the schedule, but then we'd have to cut something else out. Since nobody wanted to do that, we decided to skip the Grand Canyon, and believe me, that was not an easy decision! So the next day, we headed out to Southern California where the Reagan museum is, which was our original destination after my uncle Joel's. There were THOUSANDS of wind mills in southern California! On the way there, we decided that it might be a good idea to stay in a hotel room that night, so that we could leave early the next morning, and not have to pack up the pop-up camper. My dad assigned me and Wes to the task of looking up a cheap hotel room near Simi Valley on the internet. I found the best one on Hotwire, so we booked it (it was funny that we booked it only a couple hours before we actually got there!). The Reagan museum was in Simi Valley, and the hotel room was in Thousand Oaks. It was close to the ocean, so we drove to Malibu and dipped our feet in the Pacific! We had made it from coast to coast! The next day we went to the Reagan museum. I was writing a paper on him, so it really helped me out. At the end of the museum, we saw Reagan's Air Force One and we got to go in it. It was cool, but I didn't think it was really all that special. Then we drove up towards Sequoia National Park. My mom was dying to go to a Hot Spring, and it turned out that California Hot Springs (we randomly found it on the map) was near the park. So we decided to go there, and it come to find out they were renovating the place, and they weren't open, so we went straight from there to the park and got a campsite. The next day, we went to the General Sherman Tree (the biggest tree in the world), saw tons of Giant Sequoias, and drove through the tunnel log. It was a Sequoia that fell over, and it was so big that they carved it out and you can drive through it (the side, not down the middle). The next day we drove to Yosemite, and we were extremely lucky to get a camping spot! It was so crowded, and the place was really unorganized, yet amazingly beautiful! Waterfalls everywhere, and the most beautiful canyon anyone has ever seen! The following day we drove up to Glacier point, where we could see a view of the whole canyon, and we then went to Bridalveil  Falls and stood under the mist. It was amazingly awesomely super-dooper cool! We were kind of in a hurry to get to San Francisco so we left after that. We stayed at my mom's best friend Susan from high school for five days, at her house in Marin County. On the first day, we went and visited my Uncle Frank, who is a scholar at UC Berkeley. He gave us a nice update on his research in the Galapagos, and took us out to lunch. It was a nice visit, but I felt like it was a little too short. After visiting him, we went and visited my dad's friend from college, who also lives in Berkeley. The next day, we decided to stay at Susan's house and work on homework, since we were a little behind. That evening, we went and had dinner with my dad's friend from Exeter. Since we hadn't yet, we drove home through the city. We drove over the Bay bridge, and it was all lit up and beautiful, and then went over the Golden Gate! 

Driving through western Colorado was very scenic! We drove through Glenwood Canyon on I-70 which was one of the most difficult sections of highway in the country to build. The canyon walls were nearly vertical, and the highway was built on these nearly vertical walls. Most of it was elevated, and there were several big tunnels also. It was really amazing! After that canyon, we went through another canyon that I don't know the name of before we got to the Utah border. We stopped at a gas station, and asked what the best route to Moab was, and it turned out that there was a much more scenic route than what the GPS was telling us. So we took that route, and it was... amazing? There's no word to describe it! It took us back to the Colorado River, and into another canyon. This one was the reddest can of all, and by far the best! When we saw our first butte (we're still not sure what defines a butte, so it may have been something else) I was ecstatic! I don't know how many people know what I mean, but there's a certain butte that you always see pictures of, and we saw it in that Canyon! I was positive that certain one when we saw it on the side of one of those Cruise America RVs (you see them everywhere out here) and on the cover  of Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire. When we got to the park entrance, a sign said that the campground was full. We didn't expect lots of tourists initially, but ever since we'd seen all the RVs and stuff on the road near the park, we couldn't be too surprised. My dad had me go online and look up BLM campsites in the area. We saw some back in the canyon by the river, but they were all full. I found some on the other side of Moab, and so we went to them. Luckily there were a couple empty, and so we stayed there for the night. In the morning, my dad got up and went to the park to try and get one of the 9 campsites that were opening up that morning. Luckily, he made it there in time and got a site, so we packed up and got ready to move. Arches National Park is a big park, and the campground was on the other side of the park, 20 miles from the entrance, so it took us some time to get there. It was good though, 'cause we kind of got a sneak preview of what we'd hike around and see the next day. All throughout the park are tall sandstone towers, and sandstone fins. They're called fins because that's exactly what they look like. They're red sandstone rock in the shape of fins just sticking right out of the ground! We got to the campsite, and began one of the hikes close by. We saw Tunnel Arch, Pine Tree Arch, Landscape Arch, Dark Arch, and Double O Arch. They're all part of these fins. There're several layers to the fins. At the bottom, there's a whitish layer called Navajo, on top of that is a blobish looking layer called Dewy Bridge, on top of that is Slickrick, and the top layer that's not always present, is Moab. They're all layers of sandstone. The middle layers are softer than the top, and they erode away faster than the others, and when they're gone what's left is an arch! There's a whole geology to the fins, but it would take forever to explain. The next day, we went to the visitor center to get the packets to become Junior Park Rangers like we did at the Sand Dunes. We watched a movie about the park and the geology, and then we went out and explored the rest of the park. We saw Balanced Rock, Windows, and a few other arches. In the Cove of Caves, there was a private school from Canada filming a concert in one of the caves! After we saw that, we went to see Delicate Arch (the unofficial symbol of Utah and the most photographed arch). We didn't have enough time to hike all the way to it, so we hiked to the viewpoint. Then we went to Sand Dune Arch. For most of us, this was our favorite arch! It was in between two HUGE sandstone fins, probably 100 ft. tall. There was red/orange sand all around it, the softest sand you could ever imagine! It was so fun to run around there and climb some of the rocks in between the massive fins. When we got back to the campsite, we were lucky that we'd opened the windows, 'cause all the wind that day had been strong enough to destroy the camper. The only downside, was that there was a thin layer of sand all throughout the inside. We decided that the next day we'd get up really early (like 5:00) so that we'd get to Zion National Park in time to get a campsite. On the way to Zion, we could see views of other canyons. I swear, Eastern Utah is pretty much one huge canyon! They're EVERYWHERE! So we're on our way to Zion now, and we'll be there for one night at least, before we see the Grand Canyon!!!

We did go to Leadville later that day. Since HMI hadn't called us back yet, we decided to visit the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, which was also in Leadville. When we got to the museum, the lady at the door told us they had just closed. She asked us where we were from, and we told her Maine, and that we we're only around on that day. She went back inside for a minute or two, and when she came back, she let us in. It wasn't like we were begging to get in, she was just being nice to us. In the museum there was lots of stuff about mining to learn about. Mostly we learned about coal. How it is mined, and how it is used for energy. There were several somewhat virtual mining displays. They also had large crystal samples of all sorts of types not just from Colorado, but from all over the world! After we had finished inside the mining museum, HMI still hadn't called back, so we asked the lady who let us in how to get there. When we got there, the place was empty. That's why they hadn't called us back, because nobody was there. We figured they were on one of their expeditions. We walked around the place until we'd had enough, and then we headed back to the condo in Silverthorne. The next day we skied at Arapahoe Basin. It was a mostly clear blue day, with wonderful skiing! My sister Ella had some altitude sickness early on and I got a bloody nose, so that became a bit of a problem. Other than that it was amazing! The views were spectacular and we had a fun tailgate party at the edge of the slope for lunch. Later that day, we drove to Boulder to stay with on of my dad's friends. My dad lived in Boulder just after he had gotten out of college, so he wanted to visit some of his friends there and show us the city. The next day, we did schoolwork in the morning, and then we went to Boulder. The first thing we did, was go to the car dealer where we had brought the van the night before. We were having some trouble with it earlier, and they think they fixed the problem. We toured around Boulder for the rest of the day. We went down Pearl St., up into the foothills where the overlooked the city, we walked around the University of Colorado campus, and we drove up Boulder Canyon a ways. Boulder was a beautiful city with lots of pluses to it. I'd love to live there! The only problem is, there's no water. All they have is reservoirs and rivers. The following day we headed back towards Silverthorne for one more night at the condo. On our way, we stopped at Idaho Springs to go to a famous pizza place where my dad used to go when he lived in Boulder. It was called Beaujo's, and their pizza was AMAZING! We didn't order it, but they have a 14lb challenge pizza. The challenge is that if two people can eat the pizza in one sitting lasting an hour, crust and all, they get the pizza for free (it costs $75!!!). Also, they get $100 and two Beajo's T-shirts. The pizza takes 1 1/2 hrs. to make! Today we packed up our stuff at the condo, and now we're headed to Moab Utah. We thought we'd stop at the hot springs in Glenwood Springs, but they were too commercialized, and they weren't very natural at all. We decided that it'd be better if we just kept going in order to make it on time for a good campsite. 

chips blown up from the altitude

We had a little change of plans... we decided that since we were so late getting to Oklahoma, that we might as well drive all night, and get to the sand dunes in the morning, so that we'd have a better chance at a good campsite. That was both a good idea, and a really bad idea. Only because it made us really tired and cranky. It was dark as we drove through Oklahoma, so we didn't really see anything. All we did see, was Oklahoma City, and a couple of oil rigs, since they were both lit up. It took us FOREVER to get to Oklahoma City, and even longer to get to Amarillo! Something like 190 miles from the OK/AR state line to Oklahoma City, and 200 miles from Oklahoma City to Amarillo! Talk about a LOT of driving!!! Once we were past Amarillo, TX, the sun started coming up. Texas was very flat, and there were cows all along the road. There was hardly any vegetation, so we all wondered what the heck they were eating! Once we reached New Mexico, we could finally get a glimpse of the Rockies! It was a while longer before we reached the sand dunes, but once we did, they were AMAZING! There's a big valley, called the San Luiz Valley, and there are mountain ranges on each side of it. They valley is very wide, and as flat as can be. Nestled up to the Sangre de Cristo mountains on the east of the valley, are these 750 ft. high sand dunes! Millions of years ago, sand was eroded from the San Juan mountains to the west, and the wind swept it to the base of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. It was too heavy to be carried over the mountains, so it settled at the foot of them. It's a pretty spectacular site to see! We played around in the dunes for the rest of the day. The next day, we went to the visitor center to learn about the dunes, and went on one of the nature trails they have. My parents decided that we should become junior park rangers, so we did. We had to learn the plants, the history, and the environment of the sand dunes. We all felt special now that we had badges, even though they meant practically nothing. Then we left after another nature hike. My parents were worried about our van, because it had been acting strangely, and we were about to go over a couple mountain passes. It did fine, luckily. Now we're in Silverthorne, at a condo that my mom's co-worker's parents let us borrow... FOR FREE!!! I have no idea what we'd have done without this condo! Once my dad gets over his altitude sickness (I already had mine at the sand dunes), we'll make a trip to Leadville to visit HMI where I'll go next spring!

Mac's house and Memphis

On Friday we decided it was a good idea to go to Graceland, not that anyone in our family really likes Elvis (except for my grandmother), we just had to do it so we could say we went to Graceland. The first thing we did at Graceland, was the tour of Elvis's mansion. It was pretty nice on the front, but really funky on the inside! Nice, but funky. Behind the house, there was his squash court, that was FULL of his golden records. His old suits from his concerts were showcased, as well as his wife's wedding dress and his tuxedo. We saw his and his family's graves, and got a picture in front of the house (the one above). Then we went to his car museum. He had a lot of cars, and they were all very nice old cars (oh ya, like they wouldn't be nice cars). We toured his private airplane, and it was pretty amazing. Not that it looked all that cool, but the seat buckles were made of solid gold! Every one of them! The whole place was kinda fun to visit, but all in all it was just a big tourist trap. After we finished with Graceland, we went to the famous Beale St. in Memphis, where many of the famous blues musicians learned to play. Beale St. was probably one of the coolest places we've been to so far! There was music in every restaurant, traffic was blocked from entering, and all the signs down the road were cool looking and funkyish. We ate some BBQ at a restaurant out on the street and listened to the band across the street. There was blues and jazz EVERYWHERE along the street!!! One guy walked buy us, and he was really creepy. He was an elvis impersonator and he walked up and down the street past us like 5 times. We also saw the famous Beale St. Flippers doing their flips on the street. They were a couple of black kids trying to earn money. After Beale St., we went back to Mac's house and swam in his pool. His pool was really nice! It was deep enough to dive into, had a water slide, and it had a rock waterfall to filter the water with the air. It was a saltwater pool, which made it much more environmentally friendly, and it didn't taste bad, which was good. The next day, we took pictures with Mac's VW bus. Man, that bus was nice! I think he said it was the best restored VW bus in the world, as well as being the most desirable vintage. He also took us for a ride in it, with the sunroof open and all! Then Mac, my dad, and I went to see Mac's car collection in his hangar at the local airport. He has more than 20 cars in there from WWII, and they all run great! He has all sorts of other WWII artifacts that he picked up in Germany, even has the lab coat of Mengele (Dr. Death), who did all the wild experiments with the Jews in Aschuwitz. After that we went back to Mac's house, ate pizza, and went to bed. We woke up this morning, and packed up so that we could leave Mac's house. Just before we left, we took picture in his Lamborghini, and headed to Little Rock to visit the Clinton Presidential Museum. The Clinton Museum looked like a huge double wide trailor on stilts. Literally! It was inexpensive, and I think we all enjoyed it... I did at least. It was very interactive, with videos everywhere, and guides to help you out if you asked. There was an exact replica of the oval office, and a near exact replica of the cabinet room. There was information there on every aspect of his presidency, and we rented the audio devices, where Bill talked to you about all the exhibits. After the museum we got back on the road and we're on the road now headed to Oklahoma where we'll spend the night somewhere, and then drive the next day to the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado!