Matt's New Mexico (Formerly Airstream) Adventure

[Matt]

@RoxRocks86 we've found box wine is best for our nomadic lifestyle.  Plus it’s real classy, like us.

[Matt]

In Little Rock today.  Lots to see, like the Historic Museum that has the oldest building in Little Rock… a bar...

[Matt]

The Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site.  I won’t do this one justice so please look it up if you aren’t familiar.  The Little Rock 9 helped to desegregate schools here.  Totally worth the trip if you’re in town…

The school was built  in 1927 and cost $1.5 mil. It was named "America's Most Beautiful High School" by the American Institute of Architects.  The school for the black students did not earn similar accolades…

[Matt]

[dinobarnesberlin]

Looks like the girls are picking up LOTS of badges

[Matt]

This gas station across the street was also preserved as part of the monument.  It was the only place nearby with a phone booth so it was where all the reporters called in their stories…

[Matt]

@dinobarnesberlin:

Looks like the girls are picking up LOTS of badges

Their Jr Ranger vests are almost too heavy to wear.

[Giles]

@Matt:

The school for the black students did not earn similar accolades…

[dinobarnesberlin]

@Matt:

@dinobarnesberlin:

Looks like the girls are picking up LOTS of badges

Their Jr Ranger vests are almost too heavy to wear.

[Matt]

Postcard?

Nope…

[Matt]

Best statue hair ever…

[Giles]

Who dat?

[Matt]

The William J Clinton Presidential Library (closed)…

The Clinton Presidential Park Bridge…

[Seul]

@Giles:

Who dat?

Prince "Little Richard" Beethoven - the statue.

[Matt]

@Giles:

Who dat?

Casimir Pulaski, a Polish nobleman, soldier and military commander who has been called "the father of the American cavalry".

Pulaski is remembered as a hero who fought for independence and freedom in Poland and the United States. Numerous places and events are named in his honour, and he is commemorated by many works of art. Pulaski is one of only eight people to be awarded honorary United States citizenship.

[Matt]

I’d have given him citizenship simply on the merit of that sick pomp.

[Matt]

Little Rock is, in fact, named for a little rock.  This is it…

[NickyB]

Did y’all make it the gangster museum, or see the underground bowling alley that Al Capone has built under the Arlington hotel?

[Matt]

No!?!?

We saw tons of gangster stuff but weren’t sure why.  We tend to steer clear of things that cost money but the bowling alley might be cool.  We’re going back later this week, we’ll check it out and I’ll report back.

[steelworker]

@Matt:

No!?!?

We saw tons of gangster stuff but weren’t sure why.  We tend to steer clear of things that cost money but the bowling alley might be cool.  We’re going back later this week, we’ll check it out and I’ll report back.

Hot Springs was a wide open town in its day. Gangsters would take a vacation when the bodies started piling up in Chicago or Detroit.