5/1

5/1 – Into Little Rock, night on the town

I rode with Libby and we helped with like 5 flat tires. Tim had to rack due to a tire issue after about 10 miles. At the lunch stop, there was a pond with frogs, crawfish, and spiders.

We arrived at the St. Theresa Catholic Church's basketball gym outside of Little Rock in the afternoon. It was our place for the next two nights (since the next day was an off day). The gym was a little dusty and kind of old, not much going on there except one wall of wooden seats (which weren't comfortable). The lighting was kind of poor it seemed.

With nothing to do I settled into a thinly carpeted room and took a pretty durn good nap for two hours. Then we went out to Little Rock's downtown, where we got free admission to the Crawfish festival. We had free drinks, good corn on the cob and a burger w/ potatoes. I’m allergic to shell-fish, but many among us enjoyed free crawfish. There was a band.

We left from there and started going to bars. The Flying Saucer offered a wide selection of domestic and international beers. There were some neat piano bars too.

It was a really fun night. People let off a bunch of steam and practiced their pickup lines, their moves. All of us had a chance to talk to some people outside of the ride and just get away, forget for a few hours.