Day 7

Friday, 17 Jun 2016
Dumas, AR to Pine Bluff, AR
39.9 miles, 3h28m, 11.5 mph
Elapsed Time: 3h56m, Max speed: 17.4mph
Total Climbing: 69ft, Max elevation: 209ft
Total mileage: 463.4


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Day 7: Dumas to Pine Bluff. 40 miles. Pretty short day. Would have been easy but for the headwinds and heat. The scenery was pretty dull.
So, just one picture of the road. But then....


Well, lookee here. I guess the road giveth as well as taketh away. This little guy (4GB) looked like he was hurt, so
I picked him up and carried him into Pine Bluff. A little tender charging and he was singing just fine--a little more
Dr. Dre than I'd like--but if I get tired of podcasts, now I have somebody else's music I can listen to.


Only one little ox-bow lake today. This should be the last of them. I reached Pine Bluff at about 11:30. Linda reported there was
nothing to do here, so we drove to Little Rock so that I wouldn't have to see everything when I drive there tomorrow.


So we visited the Central High School--famous for the civil rights battles of the late 50's. And it's still an active high school.



And this Mobil station across the street is significant for reasons I have not yet discerned.


Then over to the Capitol to wander around. Looks like they've pretty much got the whole government in the one building.
Kind of light on statuary in there.


Then over to the Bill Clinton Presidential Library. This is the 6th or 7th one of these I've visited. I still think Reagan's is the most
impressive. Not because of the papers or research materials, but because he has a real Air Force One in there. Clinton has an old limo.
And you can see that I am eating well on this trip.


One thing all the modern Presidential Libraries have is mock-up of the Oval Office. Since they let ordinary people walk around in here
everything in the room is a reproduction. If you want a photo of yourself sitting behind the fake desk in the fake room, it costs something
like $14 in real money for a print.


One thing you won't find in the Reagan library is a bicycle. Hmm. That saddle looks pretty comfortable with all those springs.


After the library, we walked out on a bridge over the Arkansas River and looked downstream, then we drove back to Pine Bluff for the night.
I'll be back here tomorrow--the hard way.

Beer: Sam Adams Boston Lager


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