Everyone Knows It's Windy

Windy is Good...except when driving an RV

Day 35 Amarillo TX to Tulsa OK

363 Miles

The clouds were already gathering early

Today's weather forecast called for severe weather in the area so we decided to try to get ahead of it. The clouds were already looking ominous to the south as we left the Oasis RV Resort on the west side of Amarillo around 9:45 this morning.

Rookie checks out the Oasis in Amarillo

Brandy a.k.a. 'Lil Dummy'

It's amazing how quickly the landscape changed from extremely flat and mostly treeless to hilly and green and treed as we headed east on I40. Soon the wind picked up, but fortunately, most of the time it was a tail wind. We are getting pretty good at knowing where the wind will be more extreme, and Jim can tighten his grip on the steering wheel. The wind generators appear off in the distance and the trees are sculpted by the wind, appearing to trimmed by a giant hedge clipper on one side.

We are still following the RT66 corridor, only we are on the interstate. The historic highway is usually within sight of I40 and now I44. It's hard to imagine traveling from coast to coast on a narrow two-lane road. However, it must have been quite an adventure, the country wasn't as homogenized back then. Every town, had its own motels, diners, general stores perhaps with gas pumps...now, everything is the much the same. I can walk into a WalMart in Albuquerque that is a perfect duplicate of the one back home in Goose Creek, South Carolina. In the food section, I can walk through the aisles and know exactly what is around the corner. Across the parking lot is a Home Depot, Target, MacDonald's, Taco Bell, Petsmart, JC Penney, Olive Garden...etc. Except for the landscape changing, one would hardly know if they'd left home.

Well, here we are tonight in Tulsa Oklahoma. We had a nice grilled salmon dinner although we've lost the lighter (which is a nice way of saying Jim must have left it in Gallup) and with neither of us a smoker, Jim had to walk up to the office for some matches. Got to put a lighter on the shopping list! Road weary, we are in for the night, didn't even unhook the car!

Today's ride was long, but not boring and we are in a GREEN world again! The desert has its own type of beauty, but we are too east coast to be comfortable in the desert landscape for too long. Yeah, also missing our ocean big time!

Tomorrow...not sure. Perhaps heading toward Branson Mo. Or not. Hah!