Day 18
Thurs 12th July Oklahoma
Dark skies - storm brewing as we left. Watched a mass (funeral?) of raptor type birds hanging out over Tenkiller dam until lightning sent us on past Hughart Cemetery, a bad sign.
Weather improved by Tulsa but we gave up looking for Oral Roberts after Stupid took us into the projects again. We drove hard today and covered nearly 300 miles which is a feat for this old bus. We more or less barreled across Oklahoma from east of Tulsa to Boiling Springs state park near Woodward on the Texas border.
Woods have been giving way to more open cow and bull country with many farms having what appear to be small oil pumping donkeys in the fields. Sounds an ideal solution to the coming energy crisis to be able to pump milk and petrol. Last 50 miles have become more plains country with occasional mesas. We saw our first roadrunner before pulling in here. Seemed a good sign. Tomorrow Texas - Lake Meredith, and after that its up in the New Mexico ranges en route to Bryce and Zion. Should get more interesting from here on.
Beautiful large blue heron(?) in full flight, showing the most gorgeous plumage. Just a little further on large numbers long leggedy and beaked pure white egrets(?). Long, long day since we argued in Tulsa and both sulked in silence for far too long. Gloss mountain turned out to have no camping nor was it very glossy. More tinselly - a red/green mesa-ish thing with bits of quartz all over.
Had to drive another 50 odd miles to boiling Springs. Terrible backache and headache and lots of mossies here. Fed up - I hurt. 9 hours on the road 298 miles.
