Today was long drive - about 400 miles all in with a small diversion to a winery.
Amarillo KOA had a wealth of activities going on, from helicoptors to trains and then then the very tuneful birds. Despite all this we still managed to sleep in (8:30 wow) and had to make an quick turnaround once awake. The airport in Amarillo is called Rich Husband or something – quite humerous.
On the road we set our sites for checotah KOA – most of the way through OK and about 370 miles according to the rather optimistic Google maps. Hmm. Cruising at 60-65mph – aren’t we brave – we noticed the wind starting to pick up in OK. Oh btw there is no official statle line notice on the side of the road when going into OK. Texas had one going the other way.Never mind – the OK welcome center was the most luxurious restroom stop thus far on the trip – thought you’d want to know that.
The wind was coming from the south and the gusts not only blew us over the road it kept lifting the pop top so… we invented a rucksack ballast on the pop top handle – worked ok but the best trick was to not have the windows wide open. While in the back we noticed a slight fume smell so at the next gas stop (23mpg now at the higher speeds) I erm displayed some redneckery once more and taped shut the rear hatch – fairly sure and now the fumes are gone – kid safe – need a new hatch seal reminder.
Shame the cheap cloth duct tape from wally mart decided to sperate either the new paint from the original paint OR leave its glue on the new paint when we pulled it off. Oh well.
OK city was busy, lots of aggressive traffic – welcome to the hustle bustle of the big cities I guess. And the roads in OK are by far the worst so far, a severe lack of investment – note congressmen.
Had a stop at a winery, quite the character and I must say the ‘tasting’ was a little mean, more like a the tiniest tea spoon in the world. Not sure how you’re meant to nose that. Hmm, took some cool pics (found the widescreen mode in the camera – it was a long boring trip) of us with some cows. Then after much fiddling we found a panoramic mode in the camera – see the last pic. Cool effect I think we’ll play with more.
The KOA site is predictable, the owner decided to sing a few lines from Oklahoma the movie which was kind of sureal and then found the VHS for us to watch. Hmm not likely. Still the site was very clean, busy and well run, they even had a lake trail, and a petting zoo. The boys would love it here.
So tomorrow should be equally long… and as before this is the gallery link