Ooooooooooo....klahoma....

And the wind DOES come sweeping down the plain!! It is WHIPPING down the plain today! And the waving wheat? Well it is cut and baled for winter, but does smell sweet.
Ok, enough of that!

We stopped in Clinton, named for judge Clinton Irwin , rather than the famous Bill you may have been thinking about. The Museum had artifacts signs and memorabilia and a film with actual footage of building and traveling the old rt. A very worthwhile stop. I never realized the significance of the road. Ok contains more drivable miles than any other state. We once again passed several towns, but did see a building that was replicated in the movie Cars. And many towns take bittersweet pride in the Grapes of Wrath connection.

Home to 65 Native Indian tribes even today , it was the last refuge of the Kiowa, Apache, Comanche, and other tribes before the land was taken away from them during the land rushes.

The road turns northeast at the end of the state going through a mining town called Commerce, which is the boyhood home of Mickey Mantle. The main drag there has been named for him. Which reminds me, we passed a huge sign on the highway in Elk City that said "Hime of Suzanne Powell, Miss America 1981."

When we left Oklahoma City we left the "Mother Road," as she follows rt 44 toward Kansas. We will miss her!

I am blogging on my cell as we head to our next stop for the night.

Carol
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