Sep 20, 2019 - Oklahoma City to Amarillo

Route 66, or is it? Day 16 It seems strange to wake up in someone’s home. The owner had said she would be going to work at 6.30 but we didn’t hear her leave. Once up and showered we have coffee and then set off to visit the Oklahoma National Memorial. This commemorates the victims of the bombing by two right-wing domestic terrorists. On the corner of the crossing there is a statue of Jesus weeping opposite a wall with 168 niches, each one representing one of the victims of the bombing. This is built on the site of a part of the cathedral...

Sep 19, 2019 - Tulsa to Oklahoma City

This Land is Your Land Day 15 Today is an important day in the life of Mark as Tulsa is the home of The Woody Guthrie Museum. I'm not over keen as I find his songs quite depressing but Mark insists he is a poet. We enter the Museum and I am amazed by the range of displays. It turns out that he was not only a singer song writer, but a poet, painter and novelist. The museum stores thousands of archive materials as Guthrie was prolific in the work he produced during his life. Marcus comes across a Virtual Reality activity. We all experience...

Sep 17, 2019 - Ole Red-Just Itching' To Have A Little Fun

We left Oklahoma City/Edmond and on our way to see Kelli, Dan and Kaia in Texas we thought we would make a stop about ½ way and stay in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. While traveling there we passed through Ada. Oklahoma, the childhood home of Blake Shelton, one of my favorite current country artists and who now calls Tishimingo his home when he isn’t touring or starring on The Voice. We stayed in a really nice city campground just a few blocks off the main street of Tishomingo. The campground sits on Pennington Creek which feeds into the Washita...

Sep 16, 2019 - 28th STOP - Oklahoma City, OK

9/16/19 - After we left the Amarillo City limits it was 40 miles of Wind Turbines and vast stretches of fields growing all kinds of stuff. Flat, flat, flat as far as the eye could see. As we got closer to Oklahoma City, the towns started to get bigger and the topography got more hilly with some small canyons. Everything was a lot more green than TX. Temps will be going up and when we get to West Memphis, AR (the stop after Van Buren, AR, our next stop) the temps will be 103. We will be right beside the Mississippi River, so hopefully it...

Sep 9, 2019 - Oklahoma City-The Big Friendly

After leaving Salina we drove a whopping 95 miles to Wichita where we spent a few nights. The primary reason for going there was a text from our son-in-law saying he would be in Wichita for business. We met him after he finished work and visited one of the more amazing sights in Wichita, the Keeper of the Plains. This 44-foot statue stands at the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas rivers and is elevated on a 30-foot rock promontory. It commemorates the local tribes that used to inhabit the Wichita area. We walked along the river...

Sep 2, 2019 - September 2, 2019 – Stillwater, Oklahoma

September 2, 2019 – Stillwater, Oklahoma I’ve spent the day editing posts, pictures and watching the coverage of Hurricane Dorian. The Bahamas have really taken a hit. Today, it was moving only 1 mph so it is just sitting over the Bahamas with 185 mph winds and torrential rains. The destruction is just catastrophic. As of mid-afternoon today, Dorian has dropped the wind speed by 40 mph to 145 mph, and it looks like it is going to stay out to sea. That doesn’t mean that Florida is out of the woods because it will only be 20 miles or so...

Sep 1, 2019 - September 1, 2019 – Stillwater, Oklahoma

September 1, 2019 – Stillwater, Oklahoma I got so engrossed in watching the Hurricane Dorian coverage that I was late getting to Connie’s for lunch. It is unbelievable what that storm is doing. It is now a category 5 storm with 185 mph winds. It is only moving at 5 mph so it is essentially just sitting over the Bahamas today. This evening they are showing some of the devastation on the northern Bahama Islands. Earlier today, it looked like it would turn and miss Florida but the 11 p.m. advisory looks like that might not be so. If it hits...

Aug 31, 2019 - August 26-31, 2019 – Stillwater, Oklahoma

August 26-31, 2019 – Stillwater, Oklahoma August 26 – More rain. I’m getting tired of it. This afternoon, Patsy and I figured out which cruise we wanted to take and got quotes on them. We looked at those and then made up our minds which one we’re going to book. We booked an Oceania cruise from Los Angeles to Tokyo. It stops at Kodiak Island, Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians, Vladivostok, Russia and 5 stops in Japan ending in Tokyo. We’re going to take the bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto and spend a few days sightseeing there before heading...

Aug 25, 2019 - August 25, 2019 – Stillwater, Oklahoma

August 25, 2019 – Stillwater, Oklahoma Today the needleworkers met at Connie’s house. I almost hated to get out. It began raining about the time I got up at 7 this morning. I left at 11:30 to go to Connie’s, and it was still raining. It finally cleared off around 1. After it quit raining, it got hot and muggy. I spent the rest of the day reading. jnd

Aug 24, 2019 - August 23-24, 2019 – Stillwater, Oklahoma

August 23-24, 2019 – Stillwater, Oklahoma August 23 – I spent this morning reading and generally doing nothing. It was pouring rain when I got up, and I had to turn on the heat to dry out the interior. It finally cleared off in the afternoon. And, then of course, I had to turn on the AC. I ran into Stillwater this afternoon. I picked up my mail from Patsy’s and gave her the printout of the additional possible cruises for next year. She will weed them down to 5 or 6, and we’ll go from there. August 24 – It looked like it was going to rain...

Aug 22, 2019 - August 22, 2019 – Stillwater, Oklahoma

August 22, 2019 – Stillwater, Oklahoma Today, Patsy and I went to Owasso to meet with the financial advisor who handles our investments. She has done well for us. Despite the chaos of the market this year, each of our investments is only down .5%. Considering how this year has gone, I think that’s pretty good. Melanie took us to lunch after our meetings, and we had a good time talking our various travels. I dropped Patsy off at home and then came on home. I gave her the printouts I had done. We decided to explore other lines which I hadn’t...

Aug 21, 2019 - August 21, 2019 – Stillwater, Oklahoma

August 21, 2019 – Stillwater, Oklahoma Today I ran up to Wichita to Von Maur. That was an excuse to get out of town for a while. I found 2 Christmas presents for Patsy. She will hate me when she sees them, and since she reads this, I can’t tell you what they are. I also found out that the 90% off sale will be next Wednesday. I got a few things at Dillion’s, filled up with gas and came home. It didn’t rain in Wichita while I was there, but Emporia, which is only 77 miles north, had really bad storms. I was just glad to get home without...