Tuesday, August 22, 2006

 

Day 20 - Oklahoma City, OK to St. Louis, MO (Saturday)

We’re out of the RV park by 8am and as usual the highways are empty. We’ve not seen any traffic since Illinois. There are always a number of trucks and a few cars on the highways but that’s about it unless you count the roadkill (less deer, more armadillos these days). Yesterday I followed a truck carrying two steers in the back and I stared at one of those animals for a good hour and a half, its white face and sunken eyes looking back at me. Where was it going? Farm? 4-H show? Slaughterhouse?

The drive through Oklahoma is pretty much like Texas, flat, dry, and boring, but by the time we get to Missouri the landscape is greener and hillier. It looks like Massachusetts without the pines. It’s also getting more humid, of course, as we leave the desert. We’re still in East Podunkville no matter where we go, and the place we stop for the night is no exception. We get there at 4pm; another really long day. The RV park is not too crowded and we have a leafy site across from the fishing pond (fishing is a big attraction around here). They have a mini-golf course and we decide to play; it’s about a hundred degrees out and extremely humid. That explains why every child at the park is in the tiny pool (which explains why neither Mike nor I want to go swimming – chlorine can only do so much). The man who gets us our golf clubs tells us that in Missouri school is starting on Monday. He says they start so early because they have to account for snow days. Snow days? Apparently they get a lot of rain and freezing temperatures and when there’s even a threat of ice on the ground they cancel school. Anyway, it accounts for the RV park not being very full. We have the sweltering mini-golf course to ourselves and then we go back to the RV to air-condition ourselves out of our lethargy. We grill some burgers for dinner and then what do we do? Hearts!

Some random thoughts I’d forgotten to add earlier:

In Arizona I see a sign for Winslow. The 70’s song comes to mind and I think how nice it is to see that it hasn’t been exploited. A mile later I see a huge billboard, “See The Corner In Winslow!”

In Texas we pass billboards advertising two things: Jesus and Adult Videos. Who
Would Jesus Do?


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