Coaches and Sooners

We hated to leave Dodge City even though the slogan is "get the hell out of Dodge".  The room we had at Hampton was probably the nicest any of us have stayed.  We hit the road and see more cattle until we hit the Oklahoma state line then the terrain was so boring that we had a hard time keeping each other awake or finding things to comment on.  There was just miles of nothing...not even corn!  How can this be?  There has been corn in every state so far but here.  We passed a couple small towns that were like ghost towns and it was sad to see.  Finally about 20 miles outside of Oklahoma City we started seeing cattle ranches and farms again and then civilization.  We stopped at the Outlet Mall so Debbie could make a stop at the Coach store and we had lunch there at Smashburger.  We left there and went to downtown to see the Memorial for the federal building bombing.  It was a beautiful and moving memorial.  We got there at 4:30 PM and if it was Atlanta we would have never been able to get out of there at that time of day but we had no problem.  We stopped at a Walmart on the way to the hotel and we are now settled and getting ready to have dinner at a pasta place across the parking lot.  Tomorrow it is on to Little Rock and then Memphis then home.  I found out after getting on FB tonight that we were at Rocky Mountain National Park the same day as my friend Dave and his wife and family.....sorry I missed you Dave!

Wind sculpture outside Hampton was pretty
 

Chainsaw tree we found amusing....

More of these in OK than any other place we saw.
 

We think this may have been a church but found the doors every interesting.
 

The bank and drug store in the same deserted town
 

The post office was still operating.
 

Amber waves of grain...

Oklahoma City

Lots of wall murals in downtown were very interesting.

Where the Oklahoma City Bombing Ocurred

The Memorial is Beautiful