Now don’t get me wrong, Little Rock isn’t that bad. It’s just been one hit in the nut sack after the other.
Not only does everything close early here, forget about room service after 10pm, but the choice of room service is limited to, as with so many hotels, burgers, pizza and salad. And after the Marriott Burger, hotel burgers just aren’t the same anymore.
Then there’s the hotel TV; 5 channels of preachers. Really? Do we need 5 channels of preachers? Everything else is a bore fest. QVC, FOX NEWS and the other comedy channels. Thankfully there was TBS (I think) which runs a pornographic amount of Family Guy reruns to keep me laughing.
Try as I may. I can’t leave this town. I tried and both times the airport in Montreal was closed down due to weather. So now I have to stick around until the circus moves onto the other city (Shreveport, Louisiana) and I had to buy clothes and other stuff like a shaving kit because I had packed for 2 days, not 2 weeks.
To top it off there’s nothing to see around here. I’m really in North Little Rock, on the other side of the river and once you leave the area where the arena is, it is sadly and desperately poor. (Pictures to be uploaded to Flickr soon and you will understand just how poor) and not surprisingly there’s a liquor store at every corner and a shitload of fast-food restaurants and nothing more. You can see the huge expensive Clinton library on the other side of the river. All I could think was, couldn’t that money be used to rebuild the housing for the poor? But then I remember what country I’m in. Black folks don’t really count as real citizens right?
So today I sorta enjoyed a day off despite the crappy weather and hope things will be better in Shreveport.
ah… welcome to my world of sucky weather plane travels!
Heehee - TBS exits solely to play Family Guy reruns.
It stands to reason that most everyplace you’ll be going on tour will be the portrait of poverty. The circus doesn’t come to the rich suburbs.
@Christelle: Welcome to my world. 3 weeks in a row, makes it mine
@Jason: The arena tours go to smaller towns, but the big tops got to the big cities. But in reality, American poverty makes Canadian poverty look like middle class. No offense. I saw some scary shit I never imagined before.
I would have thought there would be 10 channels of preachers in Arkansas. Thos southern baptists like to talk and ask for money!