Yep, we’re in Oklahoma today. We came through Wichita, Kansas south to Oklahoma City. There was a noticeable difference in the landscape…more trees and lots of gas derricks (that pumping thing that extracts something from the ground…they look like the bobbing birds that dip their heads in a glass of water). Around mid-day, we came through Ponca City, Oklahoma; this is where the Pioneer Woman museum was. We stopped there and there were lots of neat exhibits about Oklahoma women who were pioneers in a variety of professions….civil rights, aviation, legislation, etc. There was also an oil refinery in Ponca City by Conoco and it was huge. I had never seen one but it was a mass of pipes and large storage silos that covered a considerable amount of land.
We arrived to Oklahoma City around 5:00 p.m. and we went to the large Camping World store here. Bought a couple things and then migrated down the street about a block to a Wal-Mart Supercenter and that is where we will stay for the night. Was another very hot day here….odd because yesterday in Kansas it was very comfortable…around 78 degrees and today it must have been in the low 90’s.
Another noticeable difference that struck me was that something must happen once you cross that border into Oklahoma because folks here have an accent. Not sure what happens in just the span of a few hundred miles to the speech patterns but it is very interesting.
Tomorrow we will go to the Oklahoma Memorial and the National Softball Hall of Fame…
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