Day 3 - Breaking Through OK and TX

Minions of followers, a quick update, with more to come.  We are giving our butts a rest in Tucumcari, NM for the evening.  We left Cheecotah, OK this morning, made it to OK City by 9:00 AM and had a wonderful visit of the OK City Memorial Museum.  Truly inspiring. We also hit the Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, TX, which is not truly inspiring. We crossed Texas and entered New Mexico about 7:30 PM eastern time.  We are in Tucumcari for the evening.  After I get something to eat (already had a nice libation), I'll try to post some pictures and update you on the day.  So stay calm.  We'll be back.

BTW, tonight Quality Inn does not offer refunds for less than 15 minutes in your room. But it does offer a room with a TV remote that works.

Also, note that you can click on any picture (even though misplaced in the blog) and it will come up in full size.

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OK, we're back from great comfort food at Rockin' Y's  Restaurant where chicken fried steak and hamburger steak were abundant.

This morning, we left Cheecotah, OK about 7:00 AM and were at the OK City Memorial about 9:00 AM.  We've been doing whatever our GPS told us, and so far, so good.  She's taken us to all the important places we needed to go.

Upon arrival at the Memorial, we were approached by a guard (after all, we were in a rented Penske truck) who, for about 30 minutes, gave us all the low-down on the Memorial.  It was great, and can't really be covered in this blog.  But it's one of the better museums I've been to and really covers what happened on April 19, 1995.

From there, where we'd stayed two hours and exceeded the time on our parking meter by 60 minutes (no ticket), we continued west on I-40, finishing our trip across OK, and in to the big state of Texas.  But we only went across the top, the panhandle, so it didn't take long.  But as we passed Amarillo, we did stop briefly at the Cadillac Ranch.  Nothing to go back for, but something you're glad you've seen one time.  Another two hours, and we are in Tucumcari, NM, only 3 hours from Albuquerque and the end of our 1700+ mile journey.

Tomorrow, we should be there by noon and enjoy a nice weekend with our son/nephew Mike, his wife Amber, and son Tyler.  We're looking forward to it.

That will complete the breaking of the west wind.  We may do another blog or two, but no guarantees.  Keep your cards and letters coming.  We do appreciate them even if time does not permit us to respond to each one.

Parden the screw-up with the placement of pictures on this blog - it ain't easy.

Dennis - 1, Harry - 1