Day 30
We crossed the Arkansas River again and I saw my first Oklahoma oil well. The interstates are in really poor shape and they are working on them all along the way. In one area the concrete they had removed from the road bed was being crushed on site and being reused as gravel for the road bed.
In Oklahoma there seemed to be a casino every 40 miles or so, with a Cherokee Gift Shop at every 2nd or 3rd exit. We started catching a head wind about midway across the state with a light rain chasing us most of the afternoon. There seems to be a Route 66 museum in every town too.
The native landscape gradually changed to scrub and red dirt as we climbed to over 3500 feet into the high plains of Texas. We are spending the night in another KOA campground. I probably would have saved what a membership card would have cost early in the trip. Radio has been pretty limited to FM ranging from Christian to Christian to country western to Christian and country western. I am surprised at the lack of AM.
In Oklahoma there seemed to be a casino every 40 miles or so, with a Cherokee Gift Shop at every 2nd or 3rd exit. We started catching a head wind about midway across the state with a light rain chasing us most of the afternoon. There seems to be a Route 66 museum in every town too.
The native landscape gradually changed to scrub and red dirt as we climbed to over 3500 feet into the high plains of Texas. We are spending the night in another KOA campground. I probably would have saved what a membership card would have cost early in the trip. Radio has been pretty limited to FM ranging from Christian to Christian to country western to Christian and country western. I am surprised at the lack of AM.
