Six hours to Amarillo, which Corinne insists on calling Armadillo. Big thunder and lightening as we start out.
Black-Eyed Susans line the highway. Very dramatic.
I'll bet all that brown grass is grateful for the rain. We're told it's unusual for rain in OK in July. That's usually when the farmers make hay.
Tent caterpillars freak me out. They are gross and scary, for some reason, like an alien force taking over a tree and consuming it.
We see an oil well, but it is not pumping.
Oklahoma City is called Rocktown or Bricktown, yet the roads on I-40 are in terrible shape.
There is a controlled burn of a field on Mile 117. The soil is very red all of a sudden.
In Weatherford, OK, we see a wind farm with over 100 windmills. It is a beautiful sight, but very other-worldly.
A cattle truck from Amarillo rides alongside us for several miles.
THINGS THAT SURPRISE US: In TX, the signs say: Share the Road with Motorcycles.
There are no slowdowns around construction sights.
We see the largest cross in the Western hemisphere.
There is a water tower about to topple over. We call it "The Leaning Tower of Water" (this is how we entertain ourselves on the road!)
SPECIAL EVENT: We go to dinner at The Big Texas. Great food. Three elderly cowboys, fully decked out, playing fiddle, guitar, and bass, serenade the guests.
Five people are trying to get a free 72 oz. steak by eating it, along with a baked potato, 3 shrimp, salad and a roll within one hour. Everyone gathers around to photograph the contest and watch.
None of them make it. We hear one young man "losing it" in the bathroom shortly thereafter. The third woman in 3 years is among today's contestants. If they don't eat it all, they have to pay $1/oz. for the steak.
Going uphill over a bump, our RV engine kicks out of Cruise Control and stalls.
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