Little Rock, Part 2

Back on the Road for 2025…and it is COLD!

We even had frozen pipes in the hotel where we stayed our first night back! The batteries in The Beast were dead on our return, so we spent a good part of a day getting them jumped and recharged to move Lizzy from the storage unit to our campground. Frozen pipes intermittently in the campground shut down showers & laundry, and last night got SO COLD, that we plugged in the heater for the engine block in The Beast!

What with the frozen issues slowing things, bleaching the water tank, re-stocking our refrigerator and cupboards (2 trips to Kroger, 2 trips to Costco), fixing the toilet and the battery charger (trips to Home Depot and Camping World), RSE meetings, NFL games, we didn’t spend much time exploring, just…

One day of Touring

We did take one of the “warmer” days to visit a couple of sites.

First stop, in North Little Rock, the Arkansas Inland Maritime Museum, home to:
- The USS Razorback (SS 394), a World War II Submarine which was in Tokyo Bay during the formal surrender of Japan, ending World War II, and longest serving combat front line submarine existing in the world today.
- The USS Hoga (YT 146), a tugboat recognized for her efforts during the Pearl Harbor attack of 1941. She pushed the USS Nevada (BB 36) out of the channel during the bombing.
On a short walk along the Arkansas River in North Little Rock, we found a new site of the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, with a number of information signs about the many different Tribal Nations who were “removed” to Oklahoma: Chickasaw, Muskogee (Creek), Choctaw, Cherokee, Seminole
Last visit, in Little Rock “proper”, was the Old State House Museum, with a lot of Arkansas history, including an exhibit on the 1st Ladies of Arkansas.