One of the five new states we visited on our Southwest road trip was Oklahoma. I’ll be the first to admit that we didn’t try real hard to find places to stop, but it was getting close to the end of the trip, it had been a long day, and we ended up losing a couple of hours due to their silly “exact change” toll road system (long story!). Otherwise we might have spent a little more time in the Tulsa area, as what we saw from the freeway made it look pretty nice.
We did manage to drive through Yukon, famous for being the birthplace of Garth Brooks. And we spent a little time in Catoosa, primarily to see the Blue Whale, a kitchsy Route 66 icon. And we grabbed shots of a few other places just to prove we were in the state. All in all we only ended up with 53 photos from Oklahoma, and that includes a few of Kathy’s “out the window” pictures. Not exactly our best effort, but it got the job done. We hope to make more trips out west to see more parks and visit our friends out there, so we’ll likely have more opportunity to visit the state. In the mean time, we’ve placed a check mark next to Oklahoma! 🙂
Shattuck, Oklahoma is my place of birth even though I’ve never lived there. My parents lived in Texas and the nearest hospital was in Shattuck. Thus, I’m an Okie rather than a Texan. Never heard of the blue whale. In fact there’s a lot I don’t know about Oklahoma.
I looked up Shattuck and realized that we almost went there! There is a Windmill Museum there that looks really cool. It was an hour and a half north of I-40 so we decided against it. We probably should have gone and avoided the fiasco with the toll road! 😉
http://www.shattuckok.com/WindmillPark.html