Road to California; Day 2

Arkansas was a whole lot of nothing.

Oklahoma, despite the upbeat musical, was also a whole bunch of nothing. I did not see a surrey with a fringe and the cowmen and the farmers were in constant conflict.

I did stop and see the Memorial for the Federal building in Oklahoma City- what a beautiful memorial! Two arches, with the times 9:01 and 9:03 on them, embrace a reflection pool. The pool is 9:02 am April 19, 1995 when the federal building was attached. Rows of chairs line the pool, organized by where the victims were working in the building, and differing in size according to whether they were children or adults. There were way too many small chair there. Some pictures:





After Oklahoma came Texas. Right outside of Amarillo, TX we stopped at Cadillac Ranch. An art project planted in 1974, these cadillac are half buried. The artists encourage interaction with the project and you may spray paint them, write on them, climb on them, or whatever. It was great! Guess what I wrote? Look closely at the gold wheel!







We drove 720 miles today and were in 4 states (Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and now New Mexico). We are now in Mountain time. We are now quite tired. It is time for bed. Tomorrow, we plan a much less road weary day and several Arizona attractions are calling our name. Tomorrow night I'll hopefully be writing from the Grand Canyon!

BTW-iphone vibrated for 15 minutes this morning as we entered Oklahoma. Not sure if iphone just did not agree with Oklahoma or if there is a software problem that is raising it's ugly head. There may be an Apple Store visit in the future!