Oklahoma - where the wind comes....

Holy hurricane batman; what a day!

This morning started off briskly in Dumas, TX right away as we were loading the cars as we could feel the bite of the wind, making the 50 degree temp feel a lot colder.  After our Hampton Inn breakfast we headed pulled out of the lot to pick highway 152 which would take us all the way to Yukon, OK, a suburb of Ok City.  Right away the 25 MPH north wind was buffeting the side of the A’s as we traveled east to the Oklahoma boarder. 

The highway was straight but the wind made driving a challenge especially when large trucks past in the opposite direction and hit us with a blast of wind and pushed us around even more.  Oh well, nothing we could do about the wind so we just chugging along.  This area of Texas is was flat and either was a cattle ranch or a farm raising Corn, Maze and Winter Wheat. These farms are really big, Texas big.  We stopped in Pampa, TX to stretch and get gas.  We asked a couple of local guys if it was always this windy to which they said this was not much, the spring winds were a lot worse. 

We took a short detour to view the longest Music Fence.  Yes a music fence.  It is a fence that displays the notes to Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is your land.”  Guthrie lived in town and a local guy created the fence as his father and Woody were good friends.

Back on the road were traveling along when a trailer truck passed us belching black smoke from a rear tire.  We couldn’t figure out why a tire skidding that much didn’t catch on fire.  We continued on to Elk City for lunch and that’s when Nan noticed soot on my pants.  What, then I noticed it on her pants, it was on everything, including the windshield.  I commented on the CB and we all noticed the same kind of soot.  It was so bas we had to wipe everything down when we stopped for lunch, which was at cool little place called The Country Dove.  It was a quaint little place with great food. 

Elk City is host to the Route 66 Museum and is located right on RT 66. So after lunch we traveled down the Mother Road to the museum.  We took the obligatory pictures by the sign and then toured the museum area which covers so much more than just RT 66.  The entire museum is a tribute to the early days of the Midwest.  Bruce and I also took advantage of the stop to change our pants soiled by that truck.

We toured the entire museum and hit the gift shop before getting back on the road.  We set our sights on Yukon, OK where we would be staying for the next two days.  The road to Yukon was straight as an arrow, I think you could calibrate a compass with it.  The entire day we also noticed the enormous farm along the route.  In addition to the corn and maze, we also saw huge fields of Cotton.  You just don’t think of cotton in Oklahoma.

The constant wind and some of the road conditions gave the drivers a good work out, but in spite of that we traveled 283 miles today.

Tomorrow we will explore the sights in the Oklahoma City area.

Sunrise in Dumas, TX

The musical Fence

The owner of the Country Dove Glenna Hollis

RT 66 Motorcycles

A RT 66 Drive-in

Neat looking mural 

A huge Corliss steam engine

A classic wind powered water pump in the
Farm & Tractor building

A popular vehicle to get goods to the market

Out side the museum

Getting ready for the Movie, but where did Nan go?

Bruce and his Cadillac seat

My father had a 1940 Chevy like the one in this display

Rose and son Larry on the Caboose at the railroad station