Today started off VERY BRIGHT. What can I say... I am not a morning person... and the skies here ... as in most all of the southwest... are waaaaaaaaaaaaaay too bright for me most days.
But I digress.

In front of our hotel (which was super nice)... was a display of old farm equipment and trucks. My dad would have loved it. And so we began our travels through the rest of Texas and into Oklahoma.

We stopped at the Big Texan before we left Amarillo and looked around and got some coffee (thank the gods)... and some postcards to send to people. The back end of it was open (usually isn't) and we got to look around at some new features to the place.

Once we got into Oklahoma, we stopped at one of the Cherokee Trading Posts. There are 3 of them on the route we generally take to go to PA... and they almost always have buffalo... but alas, today they were hiding out in the barn. Guess it was too bright for them as well :)
As a bonus though..... there was a very studly looking longhorn cattle in a coral nearby... and he was stunning.

And then it was several hours of Oklahoma farm/ ranch land.... which was surprisingly GREEN. I had posted a couple of my iPhone shots on facebook as we were traveling... and there was a conversation about how the photos looked so green... and Oklahoma was not.
And I would tend to agree. Every time I have traveled back to PA... Oklahoma was (by and large) just a mass of brown fields, red dirt and dust. No green. This year however, we saw tons of ponds, creeks full of water... and tons of green fields. All I can say is... Oklahoma must have gotten alot of much needed rain this year... and it was really pretty. It even rained a bit while we were driving.

And then..... we had ANOTHER flat tire. This time, it blew just as we were about to go through a toll booth... and I can only think that we must have hit something on the road... I don't know. But that makes 2 blown tires in 2 days... and I'm hoping this is NOT a trend.
Fortunately, like I said ... we were at a toll booth... so it was a bit more convenient to park and wait. Which we did. For like, and hour and a half... but then the guy (really nice guy named JOSH) showed up and was awesome.

As a reward ( I guess) for this delay... we were treated to singing cicadas... some really pretty pine trees of some variety, some really cool looking cicada carcasses... and a glorious sunset.

Tonight we are in Tulsa... and the beds are comfy :)
Sleep well, my friends.