Arkansas, Oklahoma,Texas

Tracie and I have had good momentum the past couple of days!  I’m so thankful to all who have supported us as we finish up the last leg of this Ultimate US Road Trip!  It’s been so much fun, challenging, and rewarding and I couldn’t have done it without all of your support back home.  Three more states to go and I’ll have checked off 48 states driven!  Mission almost accomplished!

We had a fun morning in North Little Rock.   Thanks to the best Travel companion on the planet for finding an Ultimate Awesome Attraction called ‘Old Mill’… SO Much better than what I had planned!  Check out https://www.instagram.com/ldsunplugged/ for some cool pics and videos of this place.

It’s Friday, the start of a long three day weekend, Monday being Veterans Day.  Today, I had the chance to visit Oklahoma City National Memorial,  where The Outdoor Symbolic Memorial stands on the now-sacred ground where the events of April 19, 1995, unfolded. What was once the footprint of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, Fifth Street, the Athenian Building and Oklahoma Water Resources Board are now the Field of Empty Chairs, Reflecting Pool and Rescuer’s Orchard.  I spent some time reflecting on the tragedy that occurred that day and was reminded yet again how grateful I am to the Men and Women have risked and in many cases given their lives to protect our freedoms.

May we all remember those who have died before us and those who have survived and changed forever to give us this great land of Liberty.   Amidst all of the turmoil that exists in our country,  we still have the opportunity to do what is right and sacrifice what we must in order to make this country what it has been and will continue to be… The Land of the Free!  Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto: “In God is our trust.”  And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

 

Special Place to Visit

 

Each Chair Represents one of the 168 who died on April 19, 1995 and each chair is unique, larger chairs representing adults, smaller chairs representing children

And Jesus Wept