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Location Date Checotah 1434841200 Oklahoma City 1370473200 Hinton
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Found a really big oil driller at the fairgrounds in Tulsa today. Got completely lost trying to find our way out. Finally got onto 66 west. Got lost in Bristow just trying to stay on 66. Got lost in Oklahoma City trying to find the memorial, then getting out again. All in all, I'm surprised we made it as far as we did.
We did find the Hobby Lobby, though. Huge store containing sewing and crafty things. Mom could have stayed for days. I went catatonic.
At one point, we had to go onto a turnpike (toll road) for a few miles. It cost us twenty-five cents. We can't figure how they recover their costs. (How much is the Golden Gate Bridge now? $5.00?)
The highlight of the day, though, was the Oklahoma City National Memorial, the site of the 1995 bombing of the Federal Building. Very sobering. Makes you wonder why anyone would want to do something like that. Unbelievable.
Left OK City behind and headed toward Texas. Made it as far as Hinton, Oklahoma. Mom found a great state park called Red Rock Canyon. It really is a canyon; you drive down into it, and the walls of the canyon are, you guessed it, red rock. Much cooler down here.
As we left in the morning, we spotted some people rock climbing and repelling down the red rock walls. Julie, we thought you’d be interested, until we realized that Liam was probably climbing walls higher than this when he was nine months old. Pretty spot, though.
DAILY ENTERTAINMENT... courtesy of Shannon
Got the final installment of Lord of the (clouds). Aragorn was crowned Grocery Checker of Gondor.
STATS
Day: 21, 9/24
Leave: 10:30 am; Keystone State Park, Sand Springs, Oklahoma
Breakfast: RV
Lunch: Made sandwiches in the parking lot of Hobby Lobby and ate while driving
Dinner: RV
Arrive: 6:00 pm, Red Rock Canyon State Park, Hinton, Oklahoma
Travelled: 218 miles; 7.5 hours
Comments: Well, I got to drive today; Mom did the navigating. Of course, most of the day she had maps and books all over her lap and falling on the floor while trying to program the Garmin and check Google maps on her iPhone and listening to me yell, "Quick! Am I supposed to turn at this intersection?" I’ll probably have to fight Mom for the driver’s seat tomorrow.
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Brudder Lost eh? How could you possibly get lost with all those maps and the wonder of the ecectronic age, Mr. Garmin as navigator? Oh, I remember now. Garmin comes embeded with a poldergeist who has a preverse sense of humor. A friend of ours was visiting from California a couple of years ago. He called from Oregon to say he would visit, at noon the next day. I tried to give him directions to Crouch and the cabin, but he said no, didn't need them. He had a Garmin. At 4pm the next day he called: from the Silver Creek Plunge, about 15 miles up a drit road beyond our cabin. He said this was where the Garmin had directed him, that is after it first led him to Lowman, about 30 miles east of Crouch. He must have pushed the signtseeing route button.
shannon actually the cash rate for the golden gate is now $6... $5 for fast track... stupid california