Down the Primrose Lane

Today we drove FROG to a wonderful local Conway, Arkansas RV shop for some tweaks.  She needed her new front AC cowling tightened and a tiny water leak sealed around one of the cowling’s bolts. Service Advisor Shane and his tech Steve discovered the source of an occasional pounding noise at speeds over 50 in the wheel well and tightened two bolts that had worked their way loose a bit under the fender and we reset the receiver’s code for the tire pressure/temperature detectors on TOAD. A free tank dump and fresh water fillup later and we were ready to head to our next destination. But not before a couple of essential stops first!

Shane and I had a great conversation about full timing an ministry.  Shane and his wife have been Youth Pastors at a Baptist Church in Conway since 2006 and they love it.  But a life on the RV road, he says, would fit his style of ministry well.  Who knows, maybe we’ll see them as we travel again some time.

Mona needed a haircut and Vicki’s cutter was available – DONE!

Laundry time again and Vicki let us use her laundry facilities and have lunch on the leftover lasagna from last night- YUM!

Clayton had offered to let me audit one of his Religion classes at the University of Central Arkansas (UCA) and I took him up on it at 2 pm today.  I was really thrilled to sit in. Its been a few years since I was in a room with knowledge hungry students.

 The small class of 10 are studying the work of Thomas Kuhn whose 1962 book “The Power of Scientific Revolutions” is one of the must reads today for students of philosophy.

Clayton really loves to teach, and I particularly enjoyed  watching his students interact with him in discovering the tenets of Kuhn’s work.

Tonight we sleep like the dead. Literally. Right beside Primrose UMC’s well kept cemetery in the small town of Dixon, Arkansas, about 10 miles south of Little Rock. I must discover why there are no Confederate War Graves marked in this yard.  I learned from the church website that the community began as primarily German immigrants in the 1820’s but by the time the church was founded, 1867, I would have expected this to be a politically involved town.  But I know many newer European immigrants had a hard time supporting secession, so that may have been the case here.

Tomorrow we might visit a couple of historic state parks in the area, or go back into Little Rock for some museum time.  Well, I might do that.  Mona just finished another book and has her sights set on getting deeply into another before bed tonight so that volume just may take precedence over museum going and she and the dead may decide to have a restful day at home tomorrow while I walk the streets of Petite Roche one more time.

-Ken