Living the Dream with Joyce: November 14-17, 2014

On Friday (14th) I headed for Little Rock., Arkansas. When I got near Little Rock. my GPS took me waaaay out into the country, down narrow roads, to a farmhouse at the end of a long drive. I checked out my GPS and discovered that I had inputted "Locust Dr." instead of "South Locust Dr." - so I corrected that and headed for North Little Rock - a totally different part of the city which required backtracking to the highway . . . Took another 40 minutes to get to the correct rv park! Oh well, at least I had left in plenty of time - and I have no schedule. Downtown Riverside RV Park is right on the Arkansas River - and my site is about 100 yards from the riverbank - awesome view! The main part of the city is on the other side of the river, accessed by a number of bridges, visible from my site. To my left is a railway bridge with a pedestrian walkway built into it (the Clinton Pedestrian Bridge) and to my right are two bridges - one the main highway access for cars; the other another railway bridge with pedestrian bridge attached. I haven't tried any of them yet - I'm waiting for a warmer day - betcha it's pretty cold on those bridges, with the wind and the current temperatures in the low to mid 30's fahrenheit (that's hovering just over 0 celsius). It's not supposed to be this cold here, damn it!! I hooked up - at least I have full hookups here, although the water hose may freeze . . . At night. the Clinton bridge is lit up with blue lights, which is pretty cool! I walked over to Wendy's for dinner - really no options other than Wendy's, MacDonalds, and KFC.
Saturday, I walked over to a gas station to get some groceries - at least I found some bananas, but that was the only fresh food available. I should have stopped at a Walmart or something on the way here, but I just assumed that, since this is a downtown site, that I would have pretty ready access to grocery stores. Boy, was I wrong! The area on this side of the river is very run down and poor looking - not sure how safe I feel walking down the streets - definitely won't be out at night here!
Sunday, I went to a church just across the street - the Friendly Chapel. It's a Nazarene church - don't know much about the Nazarenes, but hey, a church is a church . . . They were - yes - very friendly - even announced in the middle of the service that there was someone here from Canada - made me stand up. Not exactly what I was going for, but oh well . . . They're a very huggy congregation, which is fine with me - not gotten much in the way of hugs the last little while! The service was very evangelical - come up to the altars at the front of the church and be saved - right now - sort of thing. There was one guy playing a very nice electric piano, and the words to the various songs were projected onto the walls to either side of the chancel. A woman was baptized - total immersion - so that was cool. At night, the Clinton bridge had variegated lights flashing - and loud music playing - luckily, I can sleep through pretty much anything , , ,
Monday - today - I got an email from one of the church members inviting me to a lunch at 10:30 - I thought she meant today, so I went over, but it's actually tomorrow. Don't know what to expect - she said that she was taking a group out to lunch and would love me to join them - guess I'll find out what that means tomorrow. In the meantime, they gave me a bowl of soup from the soup kitchen that opens at 10:45. I spent the afternoon lying down - not sure why I'm so tired.

I'll added these photos later, as I took them with my phone, and they didn`t upload to Dropbox for a few days. WIFI here is generally great for text, but not so good for pics and terrible for video. No Netflix here!!