May 19, 2013 - Philbrook Art Museum

Today, we toured the Philbrook Art Museum and its grounds. We both liked the art on display at Philbrook better than the Gilcrease. They have made a lot of changes to the planting on the grounds since we were here last, but retained the basic setup and design. We lucked into being here on a Sunday when they have a really magnificent buffet in the museum dining room. Ummm, ummm, good! After that we cruised around the rest of the exhibits and returned to the motel. Happy, but a definite OD on art. We're thinking of postponing the tour of...

May 18, 2013 - Gilcrease Art Museum

We had a couple of days of just driving. Then yesterday we toured the Gilcrease Art Museum. We got there early, so we spent about 45 minutes walking around the grounds (which are quite extensive) and enjoying the plantings and the statuary and noticing the changes since the last time we were here and lots of things that are still the same. Then we spent a couple of hours seeing the art which is primarily American with heavy emphasis on Native American art; we had lunch in the dining room in the museum; then spent another hour seeing the...

May 16, 2013 - Tulsa

Sunday on the move again driving to Tulsa only 47 miles away. Sunday afternoon headed out to Turkey Mountain Urban Wilderness where you can get on a walking trail alongside the Arkansas River, we walked about 4 miles, where we came across another long thin green snake, white tailed deer and a red shouldered hawk. Monday off to Tulsa downtown ( Tulsa is known as The Oil Capital City of the World) we walked miles around all the different streets looking at all the Art Deco buildings and went into many lobbies of them too as we were told they...

May 9, 2013 - East by South-East

I realized that when I spoke about feed lots last time not everybody might have known what I was talking about. Feed lots or Feed yards as they are called here are huge beef growing operations. There are literally thousands of beef cows penned up in large outside pens laid out around feed silos. As we were driving further east we noticed many of these along the highway with Garden City,KS being at the centre of it both east and west. We stopped in Dodge City famous for it's Wild West days. We went to see a large museum and Boot Hill were...

May 3, 2013 - Tulsa For Two

From Warrior RV Park - Tulsa, OK Left Durant this morning with the north wind blowing in our face and headed for Tulsa. The trip was only 160 miles but had to fill up to be sure of reaching our destination due to horrible MPG bucking the wind the entire way. The entire time we were at Durant and so far here in Tulsa the wind has been relentless gusting into the 30 mph range and always a steady 15 or more!!! The park we are staying in this time through Tulsa is one that will go on the "do not come back" list! The sites are pull thru, but...

Apr 5, 2013 - Day 1 Strafford Missouri to Tulsa Oklahoma

Strafford Missouri to Tulsa Oklahoma 215 Miles After traveling 1300 miles from our home in Florida, we finally reached our starting point on Route 66 in Strafford, Missouri. It was a beautiful day with lots of sun with the temperature rising to 72°. It was a great day to ride with the top down. We were able to find most of the historical places that we wanted to see but some were quite difficult to find. One was supposedly the oldest grocery store on 66 but after going up-and-down on the town's main street several times we discovered that...

Feb 10, 2013 - Solar panels mounted

Cutting 2" angle aluminum into 24 pieces just under 4" long to make the needed feet for the six panels, total 90 Watts. I made a jig using a cheap plastic miter box to make all the cuts right on the money. I then made a steel jig for drilling the feet and panel, and then pop-rivet them onto the panel. It worked very slick. I had previously pressure washed the complete roof as it hasn't been done for a couple years and it was pretty dirty. I also washed the rest of the RV that same day. Using a roll 3M VHB tape, prepared each site and...

Jan 27, 2013 - Magnum, up and running perfectly!

My Magnum installation is completed and it works perfectly. I had to lower the floor of the installation site 3 inches to allow proper clearance of the stair step. Cutting the floor out and welding 3 inch sides to it, then welding the box back into place. I also reconfigured and changed my genset from 120 volt to 240 volt. I replaced both 120V main fuse boxes with 240V, 50A service main and sub. I made the area below the sink the main AC power distrubution center. I had to move these from under the stairs to make room for the Magnum...

Dec 18, 2012 - The Castle of Muskogee

We drove an hour from Tulsa to Muskogee to see the largest blowup Christmas display we've ever seen. There was 200 inflatable figures on display. It was so huge you had to drive through it up and down several rows. then it brought you to the castle at the exit. There was carriage rides, petting zoo and things to do inside the castle itself.

Dec 17, 2012 - Rhema Bible College Christmas display

In 2012 Rhema displays 2 million twinkling lights that decorate the Bible college campus in Broken Arrow. They started with 60,000 lights in 1982. This was the 30th year for the Rhema Christmas lights display! This was quite an amazing sight. I have never seen so many lights in one place ever! We even had to go back a second time it was so awesome. They even had the lights cordinated with music.

Nov 5, 2012 - Wow!!!!! What A Day !!!!!

Today was a day beyond belief... It started about midday. Cal and I decided there was 2 things we wanted to see in Tulsa. One was the Golden Driller and the other was the Space and Air Museum of Tulsa. We started the day setting the GPS to the Museum. It seemed close to where we were staying so off we went. It took me right to a spot where there was an empty lot and a locked gate. GPS failed...so we looked at the real map and decided it must be downtown Tulsa...so off we went. We drove up and down streets looking for it until the gas light...

Nov 4, 2012 - On the road to Tulsa

Glad to get out of Gilmer and on the road again to Tulsa. It is a long two days in the car and we will both be tired. This was beautiful country and the leaves are just changing colors.As we leave Texas there are some things I will remember... 1. Picnic areas..In Texas about every 5 miles or less the have a small pull off with 2 picnic tables and a garbage can. Not sure why you would want to stop along the highway with the dust and dirt for a picnic... but you can. 2. The roads. I complain about the roads in Minnesota but I will not for a...