Traveling To Oklahoma
I returned home yesterday from a quick trip to Oklahoma to do a guild program. The skies were overcast most of the time except for when I needed to get out of the car to check into my hotel and again when I needed to meet my hostess for dinner at which time it really dumped!. After waiting for the rain to abate for about 15 minutes I finally braved the elements for a quick dash into the restaurant where I arrived quite soaked in spite of my umbrella. Thankfully it cleared before we had to leave and unload the quilts!
On the way I stopped at a rest stop to eat my lunch, parked in front of this sign which was not exactly the best lunchtime reading!
And you thought it was hard to find a good place to stop while traveling?
This shot of the Kansas prairie is probably not all that different from what those1871 travelers saw. it’s unusually green for late August due to all of the rain we’ve had this year. Great skies!
Tags: Travel
August 30th, 2009 at 11:26 am
Thanks for the history lesson, Ruth. Let that be a ‘travelers beware’ warning. Do NOT stop at the Benders for supper and bed.
Love the sky. Looks like you could reach up and almost touch it. I agree that Kansas looks unusually lush. When I travel Kansas in late summer, I’m used to a more tannish/green landscape. We used to go to Council Grove to fish and I remember thinking of the pioneer families traveling across that great expanse of never ending prairie, probably wondering if it would ever end. It looks smooth and flat, but I’m always surprised at the deep gullies and swales and I’ve thought about having to drive a wagon or walk beside the oxen… and the snakes!!! AND where is a bathroom????
August 31st, 2009 at 9:01 am
Yeah–I think about that too!!
August 31st, 2009 at 9:08 am
My mom says that Kansas has never looked so good as it does/has this summer.