Out of Austin and on to Oklahoma

I left Ed and Judy and the dogs early this morning and headed towards Tulsa.

The only hitch, aside from tire issues, were various wrecks on I-36.  However, google maps with the directions was wonderful on moving to frontage roads and then back on, avoiding any real problems.  I've grown to love this code.

The route to get to the campground, which is north of Tulsa, routed me away from the big city and through some interesting areas of lakes and rivers.  I crossed the southern Canadian and the Arkansas (where I wondered if the Clintons had been up or down river from here).

There was the song about Okie from Muskogee and it stated that the values of the Okies were beyond reproach and no funny cigarettes, etc., however they do sport the gentlemen's club called the Coco Bongos, which tickled my funny bone a bit.  They are also looking for new dancers and "will train."  So if you've got a lot of college debt, this might be a partial solution.

Otherwise, the drive was a bit boring and the singing of the tires an irritant.  The audio book is about done.  It's too silly for my liking, but a comedy of errors in Miami and it's been acceptable.  I hope to find better writing on the  next one.

The campground provides free fly swatters!  Yipes!  And the gal said they were useful.  Since the tent is basically a large bag made out of bug netting, I think I'll sleep ok and unbothered, but the being outside stuff may be an issue.

The trip odometer has crossed 3000 miles.  I think it will be a shorter run tomorrow.

Interesting to me is that the speed limits were lower coming out of Austin via interstates than going in on local highways.  There wasn't much 75 mph stretches today.  The car tells me I am averaging about 66 mph -- I don't think that includes my short breaks.

It was a good time with Ed and Judy and the conversations were engaging.  It was sad to leave, but the rest of the country beckons.

Ok, I'm going to walk over to the casino and see what they might have to nosh on, hopefully subsidised by folks who don't know about the gambler's fallacy and some basic probability!

Yeah!  Taxes on the ignorant!  You won't hear that from other candidates!

Ok, a quick message to my many readers, if you ask questions, this can be more of a discussion than my boring drivel.  Don't hesitate to interject something.  :-)

Rich