Location: Tulsa, OK
Since we drove late last night and didn’t have anything to do today besides more driving, we slept in this morning. When we woke up, we went directly to the Cadillac Ranch, a piece of “art” involving 10 Cadillacs planted nose-first into the ground. There were a few people already there, so we decided to hang around until they left and nobody remained at the cars to get in the way. Bad idea. Every time one group of people was getting ready to leave, another would join. It took two hours for me to get a handful of photos that didn’t have people running all over the place in them. Nevertheless, it was a cool thing to see since we were in the area.
We had little desire to try to navigate Amarillo in an attempt to find a restaurant for breakfast that may or may not have been any good, so we stopped at a Cracker Barrel on the way out of town.
The first leg of our drive took us to Oklahoma City. Julia had bought a travel version of Scrabble in Boulder, so we passed most of the trip by playing two games. This may sound dangerous, but it was actually pretty easy since the pieces from the travel version snap into the board, making it very easy to pay attention to the road without worrying about things flying around the car. Julia won the first game and I won the second, so we will have to hold a tiebreaker next time we get a chance to play.
We arrived in Oklahoma City at 10 p.m., just in time to see every single restaurant in the downtown area close for the night. Discouraged and with few other options, we went to Taco Bell. The food was fine, though we were approached by two homeless people while we ate in the parking lot, which was annoying. I can’t imagine being homeless in a place like Oklahoma. Then again, I can’t imagine being homeless in the first place … although some people may contend that we are homeless right now.
We continued on to Tulsa, which is where our driving will end for the night. Julia is asleep in the car (she has a headache), so I am posting from a DoubleTree hotel in downtown Tulsa. The security guard here has been creeping around relentlessly, which is making me uneasy, so we will probably sleep in a nearby Wal-Mart parking lot to avoid having to deal with this guy later on.
Here are photos from Cadillac Ranch. Click “there’s more to this” to see them all, or visit my SmugMug.
Cadillac Ranch.
You should visit the home of Hanson while you’re there!