Here we are in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Kind of an odd city. They put a lot of money and effort into the arts and such, but the streets are falling apart. We tried to go to Starbucks for wifi and coffee. We got coffee... the wifi was locked, however, because the only Starbucks in town is on the second floor of a hotel. Now we're sitting in the public library, where it appears they've blocked almost all uploading, so... no pics or videos to share just yet. I'm feeling we're gonna try to find another coffee shop here soon... a whole city without complimentary wifi is a little ridiculous.
Texas was hot, and the whole drive through smelled like oil. There was no getting rid of it, either... windows up, windows down, a/c on... none of it. And nothing was bigger in Texas, either... in fact, half the roads were SMALLER. It was a little odd. We finally found a place to camp around 2 am last night, and we enjoyed every hour of sleep. We've got at least one more all-nighter of driving before this trip is through.
We topped 6000 miles today! And we're still a time zone and almost half a dozen states from home. It's been a lot of driving. I'll never complain about a 2 hour drive to church again.
Let's see... the biggest honking cave I've ever seen is where we went next. Really really huge, and there's no way to describe it. It's seriously ginormous. and was pretty cool in there. (The outside temperature was near 100, the inside temp was mid-high 50's.) It was really damp as well... such a nice change from the heat we've had most of the trip. Although, we've only seen a couple rainstorms, and only one of them actually hit us. This is probably the only time in my life that I've seen rainstorms and watched them miss me by miles... it's incredible how much space there is out here. Really makes me feel like I live in a bubble. There are cities here and there, but you can literally drive for hundreds and hundreds of miles and only see a handful of houses. The concept of just driving a couple minutes for a coffee, gas, food, clothing stores, hardware stores, and ALL OF THEM HAVING BATHROOMS seems foreign out here. I'm gonna miss the wide open spaces. :(
Anyways, we're in Tulsa to see a good friend of ours, and when she gets out of work we're going to grab dinner and have a blast. After that, we only have one more tour stop - the Lost Lake, which to me sounds like something from Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth. It's an underground cave... with a huge lake in it. But for now, it's off to find a better wifi site so we can upload videos. My name is Hollywood, and I am not making an "I approve this message" joke.
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