We left Amarillo at 10:15 under clear blue sky, breezy and 62F. Very flat country now into a 3 year drought. Crops are cotton,some corn, hay and sorghum. Lots of cattle. We stopped at the Oklahoma visitors center and picked up lots of information. Once again, we met up with Dale & Libby Hanson from Florida and they gave us info on a good campsite in Oklahoma City. We hit the worst piece of road (broken cement) about 40 miles west of OKC and rode it all the way into the city. Surprising as OKC is the capitol of Oklahoma with very heavy traffic. We checked into Twin Fountains RV Park at 3:45 on the north side of the city and shared happy hour with Dale & Libby.
Oct 17/ 2012
We got up at 8:00 and drove into the city center where we caught the free trolley in Bricktown. We toured Bricktown (all the large brick buildings from the early 1900s), walked the Myriad Botanical Gardens (a huge park in the middle of the city), passed the Cox Convention Center, the Coca Cola Building, Chesapeake Arena, the Devon Power Skyscraper, the ATT Bricktown Baseball Park and a glimpse of the Capitol buildings en route. We took the water taxi on the manmade canal in the Entertaiment District stopping at Toby Kieth's I Love This Bar & Grill for smoked prime rib dip sandwich lunch. This reminded us very much of the River Walk in San Antonio, TX. There are many quaint restaurants and bars and a few big name hotels along the route as well as many large bronze statues depicting the Land Run of 1889 where 10,000 people arrived in OKC overnight to try for their 160 acre homestead parcels. Discovered that the nickname for Oklahomans is "Sooners" referring to the men who arrived early for their land claims. Lastly, we went to the Alfred Murrah Building OKC National Memorial & Museum, expecting to spend a half hour which soon turned into 2 hours. Home from there after 5:00 for happy hour with Dale & Libby. Another great day.
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