Oklahoma City

On my journey West, I'm going through Little Rock and Oklahoma City. Those aren't typical tourist destinations, but they have some things to offer.

Little Rock has the Clinton Presidential Museum. I wasn't that into it. I usually love those things, but not this one. It had a life-size replica of the Oval Office, but they pretty much all have that. It was big, with a lot of displays. A little to glitzy, I thought, although the same might be said of Bill himself. Kind of overwhelming, really. I had read that the museum gave a pretty slanted view of the Clinton years. That seemed to be true. At least Nixon's museum has a section on Watergate. Clinton didn't seem to have anything dealing with Monica. I guess tying in to the bridge to the 21st century theme, there was a walking bridge that crossed the Arkansas River right next to the museum. That was cool. On a different day, the whole thing might have been more interesting to me. Also, Bill wasn't there, if you know what I'm saying, so I couldn't add to my list of Presidential grave sites.

They did have a cool gift shop. I got a pen and something else and then the lady there gave me an authentic campaign button for free. How cool. If I do say so myself, I have an awesome collection of presidential campaign buttons, so that was great.

I got a good picture of the capital as we drove past it. (Not good driving procedure. Generally speaking, don't do that. It was a sweet shot though.)

Underrated, is the site of Central High School. It was the scene of a school integration battle in the 50's. It still looks much as it did back then, although it is apparently now in color rather than black and white.

In Oklahoma City, I looked around for the capitol building, but didn't see it. I also thought I might see where the NBA Thunder play. No. I'm thinking Oklahoma doesn't have a lot of visitor attractions. You might want to put up lots of signs for any you do have.

I did go to the Oklahoma City bombing site. I wasn't have high on my list of things to see, but it surprised me. Pictures I had seen of the memorial really don't do it justice. They did a nice job with it. It is very impressive.