Road Trips, Rule-Breaking, and Really Good Donuts

This week on Middle School Miles, Sharlotte and Aunt Steve recap their adventures through Little Rock and Tulsa—featuring a presidential photo fail, donuts that might beat Krispy Kreme, and a massive playground they almost missed. From art deco walking tours to food hall sushi and matcha debates, it’s a mix of travel, laughs, and real talk about life on the road (and online school). 

Transcript

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I'm Charlie.

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And I'm Aunt Steve, and this is Middle School Miles. Over the last week and a half or so, since our last episode, we visited Little Rock, Arkansas.

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Yeah.

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And Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Yeah.

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Let me remind you of what we did in Little.

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What did we do?

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We did the Bill Clinton Library.

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Yeah, we did go there.

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So what'd you think of it?

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The library was cool. There was this area where you got to sit in the presidential seat to get a photo. That was cool. And then you broke the rule because when we got into the Oval Office, is that what it's called? There was this lady and she was like, oh yeah, I can go and then photographer or whatever it's called is gonna be there in like a minute doing something. And Auntie was like, Oh, man. And then Rom was like, go sit down, go sit down, let me get a quick photo. And then the lady came and was just standing there with his phone, like all nonchalantly, and I was like, and you're like, we could have gotten a photo.

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What stood out to you as the most interesting thing about Bill Clinton?

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His wife. Like how she got like a Grammy.

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Yeah, and she's smart too.

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Yeah, and most of those things I kind of do that.

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Okay. So while we were in Little Rock, we also made a visit to a local donut shop.

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They didn't have any raspberry jam donuts.

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But they did have fresh hot glazed donuts that were better than crispy cream.

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They tasted like crispy cream.

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But were they crispy?

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Right, right. Well, they had just like a little bit more moist.

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Yeah, fresh.

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Yeah, more effect.

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Yeah. So after Little Rock, we hauled butt and two.

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What does that mean?

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To say you haul butt means like you make haste. You're fast about it.

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Sleep running?

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Yeah, like we ran fast. Like we moved fast to the next stop, which was Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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That was so cool. I liked Tulsa. But the only thing we didn't get to do was go to the playground because I was supposed to wake up at 7 o'clock. I woke up at 8 o'clock. The playground. It was a massive place. Yeah, it was mass.

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Have you ever seen a playground that big?

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Uh yeah, one time in Fort Lauderdale because I went with your neighbor. Oh, right, yeah, and there was like one that was like 20 minutes away, and it was as big as the one. But it was like a different theme. It was animal themed, and it was like tree house themed. So like those like different tree houses and slides. This one was medieval themed.

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So we saw the gathering place.

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Yeah.

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We went to a food hall.

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That was really good. The sushi was really good.

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And the ice cream there was pretty good.

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Yeah.

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You like the ice cream there better than the ice cream at the other place?

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Yeah. Wait, was yeah, because ice cream at that place. It was lavender honeycomb, but it had honeycomb trucks, and it was so great. But the other one was grass, it was just honey.

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And then they had like mini golf at the food hall and lots of children.

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So many. There were so many kids. This one Dan was like, Do you want kids?

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No, thank you.

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No.

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We did a fun. We went to a bakery and we met a friend.

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Yes. And they had own cartest and I try and slice a cake. Because this one no no this really kicked me off. Because you mean you told me that if I had 20 minutes, I could go to the bakery the next day.

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Extra minutes.

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20 extra minutes. That's 40 minutes plus my 20 minutes. But he didn't tell me that we were already going to the bakery. And once we got there, he was like, okay, if you read another 20 minutes today, so that's 40 minutes again today, you can have a sliced cake, either for breakfast or whenever you want to. So it's like, okay, I got the sliced cake, it was not good. But I had avocado toast and it was really good. And a matcha. It was matcha with honey. It was the best matcha I've ever had. It was so good.

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And we met Sarah.

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And we met Sarah. She's really nice. And she's the one that mentioned the playground, which it worked out. It worked out because you still gotta see it, but there was no Pokemon.

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So one other thing that we did in Tulsa, which was a little bit different because we haven't done this before, we went downtown and we took a walking tour.

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That was a lot of walking.

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It was a two-hour walking tour.

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What did we learn about architecture?

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And specifically buildings. Art deco?

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Yes.

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And the tour guide was really nice, Jeffrey. He was very sweet. He knew a lot of stuff. There was a surprisingly a lot of Art Deco architecture in Tulsa.

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Yeah.

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And we saw Route 66.

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When?

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The food hall was right off of Route 66. So after we left Tulsa, we drove a few hours, and today is our first official day here in Kansas City. And we are staying at a place called Worlds of Fun, which is a giant amusement park with an RV park next to it. The coaster park isn't open yet. Sorry to crush your dreams of going on more roller coasters.

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I don't want to call any roller coasters.

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Have you looked up yet what we're gonna do in Kansas City? Have you looked up any ideas?

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No.

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Here in Kansas City, we're gonna meet a friend or two of mine on Thursday, and we're gonna do our sightseeing on Thursday. So, what's something that you wish more people knew about your road trip? Or when it's like to do online school and to travel?

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It's kind of easy, like doing online school, because I'm already I'm already done. I was done at like 9 o'clock this week. Like 9 30.

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You weren't done quite that early.

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I'd be 11. 10. 10.30.

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Because you don't have all the distractions.

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Well, I was done with half of my classes. I only had one class at like 9.30, and then it took me like a whole hour to do this one class because it's awful.

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And then you have some reading to do and some handwriting practice to do.

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I really did that. And then I have my name incursive.

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Which is pretty cool.

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And I know how to write your name in cursive.

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Which is terrifying. Which is terrifying. When I try to forge my name on your detention documents that you get from homeschool?

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I don't get detention documents.

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We can work on it.

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What practice giving detention?

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Did you detention? Yeah, you can get detention now.

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I don't want detention.

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Yeah, it's not good.

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But if I ever get in trouble, if I go to high school and I'm gonna get in trouble, I can just signature your name.

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Yeah, no, you're not that good at it. You're gonna practice first if a lot more. So maybe we'll get you another handwriting book.

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No! I don't want another handwriting. I already finished the I have really bad handwriting, so I had to do like print handwriting. I finished that book. And after this book, I will only have to do reading, and then I'm done. I'm not doing another handwriting book.

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Get another class to fill in.

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We're gonna train for a five ten.

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I could do Pilates. Actually did Pilates last night.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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And yoga.

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I don't want to do yoga.

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Yeah, we can do yoga.

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Yoga. We can eat yoga, not do yoga.

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There you go. All right, folks. I'm Steve.

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I'm Charlotte. And this is Middle School Miles.

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Thanks for listening.