Day 14 & 15: Little Rock, Arkansas
Day 14 & 15
We drove all day, from Oklahoma City, to Little Rock, Arkansas.
On Sunday, we had a wonderful and delicious Monkey bread cinnamon french toast breakfast. 
Saturday and Sunday, December 6Th and 7Th, 2008
7:49 AM
34 degrees F.
16,245 miles on the odometer
Saturday was a road day.
We drove all day, from Oklahoma City, to Little Rock, Arkansas.
On Sunday, we had a wonderful and delicious Monkey bread cinnamon french toast breakfast. After breakfast,we were ready for adventure in the town of Little Rock, Arkansas. We found a good bike trail that ran along the Arkansas river. While riding our bikes, we came across the Capitol building. We saw small white lines surrounding the capitol, and finally realized that they were Christmas lights. We imagined it would look spectacular at night.
Then we went to President Clinton's library. Here, on display, were dozens of weird but cool choppers.
I had never seen a chopper before so it was really awesome.
My dad thinks that the choppers look like they are more for show than for riding.
It's a boys life on the road!
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Part of the memorial includes rows of 168 chairs, each one reminds us of those who died.
Shortly thereafter we entered Oklahoma.
There was really nothing to do there.
We found a nice RV park and spent the night.
There was not a lot to see on the way. Mostly desert, and a few rocks.
We had such a fun time, we saw just about the whole canyon in that area.
Up in the air looking down in seemed that everything I saw was just about as tall as I was. We were about 1-mile off the ground.
After our helicopter ride we went hiking. We hiked along the rim of the canyon for 4-miles. It was interesting to see the canyon from this angle. Here we were looking out at the canyon, versus looking down from the helicopter. Each point of view is completely different. 
You should go to the Grand Canyon, it is awesome!
Since we did not see the Grand Canyon the other day, we decided to stop at an RV park in Williams, AZ. We wanted to see the Canyon when it was sunny, and it was a beautiful day. We parked the Beast, un-hooked the toad, and drove to the canyon.
My Dad and I saw the sunset over the Grand Canyon, which was totally awesome!
We walked along the rim of the canyon and saw how massive it was from the top to bottom and side to side.
This is a picture of the generators on the Nevada side. There are 8 here, and 9 on the Arizona side. Each generator can power up to 65,000 homes.
After we left the dam, I wanted to go for a bike ride. We found a bike trail that was paved and rode for 6-miles.
It was so foggy, that I could not even see the sky walk. It took us 3-hours to drive there, and there was nothing! The road was absolutely awful and all of the tourists were speaking Japanese.
My Dad and I woke up to fog again. But, the good thing was that it cleared up when we started driving. When we crossed the Mojave Desert, we got to see the sun rise.
Close to Las Vegas there was a place that you can come to to get your RV fixed. Since we were already going to Las Vegas, it was on the way. After replacing the beast's pump we were off to Las Vegas.
About a hundred miles later we stopped for fuel (You do this a lot in a bus that gets 6-7 miles per gallon) and there was a truck wash! Here, there were 4 guys, just waiting for us! They did a wonderful job. When they were done, my Dad said to me that this truck wash was probably the best truck wash he has seen ever done on the coach.
Coburg, Oregon is about half way to the border of California
After entering California...
...we encountered this wonderful volcano, called Mount Shasta.
Shortly thereafter, the bus went through swarms of bugs, they were like snow coming down, and the bus looked like a guys freckled back. It was time for a wash.
When the day was over, and it was time to rest the big beast, we stayed at an RV park that was just an overnight place to be. Nothing too good about it except the sunset, it was a very superior sunset.
