So quickly I’ve stopped posting updates! Thank goodness we’ve been writing updates daily in our “Trip Bible”, the folder with pages for each day with all our travel confirmation numbers, hotel addresses, etc. - everything we might need if we have no cell service, a not infrequent case in mountains or ranch lands. In the trip bible, we wrote planned itineraries for some days, or at least options of things we may want to do, so we’re updating that as we go with final activities, notes, and memories.
Given that I’m over a week behind at this point, I’m switching to placeholder bullet points in an attempt to catch up a bit. I’m telling myself I’ll update these later with more detail.
Alma:
- Stopped on the way to OK City in this city’s Popeye Park for a picnic lunch. “Spinach City.”
- This small town is adorable! Zillions of flowers and other plants lining the streets downtown.
Oklahoma City:
- Stayed in Bricktown, cute area with a little river walk.
- Hot afternoon (90s again) so we cooled down inside after check-in. Bill & girls played basketball in the pool while I exercised.
- Walked over to the river for dinner at a Mexican place, then over to a candy shop where the girls picked out a ton of gummies. Final stop at Bricktown Brewery for a 6 pack of local beer before heading back to hotel.
- Disaster here! Ruth dropped her phone and the screen was only black after that, even though the phone seemed to still be working. Ordered a replacement to arrive in CO at Joe’s a few days later, where Ruth eventually figured out how to get through the MFA process for the new phone setup by clicking in what seemed to be the right spots on the broken phone to login and approve the new phone login request. Hooray!
- Next day, walked to the Oklahoma City Underground, a series of connected tunnels under the city. They’re decorated with art by local artists and history of the area. Nice and cool down here!
- This popped us out by the OKC bombing memorial. Beautiful park here, but we didn’t stay long because it was hot and we had no water. Not a pleasant walk back to the hotel for Zadie.
- Drive to Amarillo through flat, flat OK & TX - tons of windmills everywhere. Cows huddled under trees for shade or wading in ponds.
Amarillo:
- Saw our first prairie dogs of the trip behind our hotel!
- First Buc-ee’s stop for most of us - crazy. Got some dessert and some souvenirs for the girls.
- Visited “Bug Ranch” and “Cadillac Ranch” where cars buried half underground are all spray painted.
