Blogs from Oklahoma, United States, North America - page 30

We sent 4 days in Gutherie, OK at a wonderful RV park. It is surrounded by two golf courses with all pull thru sites with full hookups except cable. It has a very good wifi system. The people who run the park are extremely friendly and helpful. I would recommend this park to all. This was my base of operations to visit the area.... read more

There’s Tulsa time and then there’s Wichita Mountains time. I have discovered yet another wonderful location across our fruited plains!!! We are so blessed to have such a diverse country to explore. Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge is definitely worth the detour off the beaten path. I arrived just before noon on Thursday and had my pick of 10 of the 13 sites with electricity. I either forgot or didn’t read there was no water on the individual sites. No problem as they had water available. Since I wasn’t assigned a site and could pick and choose, I unhooked the Jeep in a parking area near the electric loop section. I filled the fresh water tank in the RV and then drove around in the Jeep to choose my site. At first I was going to take ... read more

We left Joplin, Missouri at 9.30am and 10 minutes down the road we entered Kansas - No sign of Dorothy though, I guess she is still in Oz with Toto. Anyway - Thats completely irrelevant! We stopped at a local shop to grab a souvenir from Kansas and the owner had just started a route 66 travellers signature book, she asked us to sign it as her first three. We then felt pretty comfortable with where we were heading so up went the stereo with classic 80's tunes and some bopping away by us all, (to be honest though Katie was really going for it!) not so long later (whilst still going for it) Katie attempted to tell Nige he needed to stop, unable to hear me due to the stereo, Katie continued in her actions ... read more

We slept in this morning, getting up at 7:45, had breakfast and a walk and continued on our eastward journey on Route 40. The scenery was mostly flat, a few hills, a mesa here and there, and power poles and towers. There was one straight section of road where I saw a tower at the horizon and I counted the miles that we could see ahead of us - it was 14 miles. We past two distant wind farms to the south of the highway while in New Mexico. We crossed over the state line into Texas. This was our first time ever in this state. We lost another hour and are now in Central Time Zone. As we crossed the state line we noticed that white grass replaced the dirt on the flat roadsides. There ... read more

It took us 8.5 hours to get to Fort Worth. We stayed with Jared’s friend’s Cody and Sarah. They have a beautiful custom built house in a quiet development. Sarah is due to have a baby any day now... we took a tour of the house and looked at the nursery, it was so cute! We hung out in the living room and watched a tv show, “Army Wives”, then went to sleep b/c we were so tired from the long drive (and the hurricane’s). On Tuesday we drove to Oklahoma City…on the way there we drove through the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. It was AMAZING! I felt like I could reach up and touch the clouds, they were so low. We drove through the refuge and saw a herd of buffalo. We saw one by ... read more