Excerpts from my Colorado vacation – Day 3
20 July 2008
6:47 am CDT, Memphis, TN
La Quinta
Dad woke up and turned on the lights at 5:52 am. That’s 8 minutes early. At 5:55 am, I gave up and got up.
I’ve showered and other ablutions and repacked my bags. I’m not used to living out of a suitcase.
8 am and we are leaving the hotel. I have left Planet of Whispers at the hotel for Bookcrossing. There’s a couple Little League Teams in the hotel & I feel that DeSade’s Valet is not a book for 13-14 year olds to find. Not a book that I wanted to read, myself. It came for free in a bag of books.
Leaving town, we passed St. Jude Hospital Complex. That includes the Memphis Grizzlies House (housing for families of St Jude patients, funded by professional basketball team). Visually striking is the Pyramid, the glass & steel pyramid arena.
8:20 am Arkansas border
Skipped the Arkansas welcome center.
12:30 pm Oklahoma border
Ozarks look like the Blue Ridge Mountains, but spread out.
On 3rd round, got a knot in the thread & can’t close the ring.
1:26 pm arrive at Sallisaw, OK and have lunch at a Taco Bell/KFC.
In town, I saw a carwash converted to a barbershop. Small town, with some historical sites.
~2 pm stopped for gas at a Phillips 66
2:30 pm McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System – transportation & flood control
[I’ve had to start keeping memo notes to look things up and then write in my journal later]
~2:40 pm We hit road construction, about 10 miles of it, ending at McIntosh County line.
3 pm Passed Lake Eufaula
3:30 sun behind clouds and the temperature dropped by 4F, from 101F to 97F
Soon after saw first oil well, then two more soon afterward.
~3:50 pm I took a picture of clouds, once with sunglass lens over camera and then once without.
4:54 pm Howard Johnson in Oklahoma City, next to the Cowboy Museum. Formerly the hotel was a Gardens Inns & Suites
6 pm off to supper at County Line, next to hotel. Took pictures.
Formerly it was the Kentucky Club and it’s been around about a hundred years. It was a dance and gambling club, run by the Mob. It still has some of the old fixtures and lots of old posters & ads.
It’s also haunted. “Russell” haunts the fireplace; he was killed there. A medium said that a female presence was in the women’s bathroom. The medium would not go into the basement; ‘not happy’. Our waitress doesn’t like to go down there either.
The food and service were great. Our table was in one of the old gambling niches. From the windows in the bar you could see the Capital dome.
So far, the trip looks a lot like NC, but without the kudzu.
After supper:
I downloaded videos from Dad’s camera and we watched them. I wasn’t able to erase the disk, though.
I did the first tat demo for Kathy. I just showed her the knot. We were both too tired after futzing with the videos to do any more.Oklahoma highway speed limits have one speed for cars & another one for trucks.
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