Drive-in Movie RV camp...yup true!

Guymon, Oklahoma
One night only. WI FI stinks but camp was a hoot. It really WAS a drive in movie theatre. They only showed movies on weekends so we didn't see one.
Oh well, next time.

You can see the movie screen just above our trailer.

 

Those are BOWLING BALLS! They really looked great.

Nowhere in the Oklahoma Panhandle

We were traveling Eastward  on Oklahoma Rte #64 

This hwy is about as far north as you can get in the OK Panhandle.

 It runs just below & and parallel with the KANSAS border.

Hwy #64 brought us to a tiny town called Gate , Oklahoma . No , I never heard of it either.

All 5 of Gate's buildings were muralized (new word?) by one woman. I didn't get her name….well, actually I did but I've forgotten.

Maybe I should  have said Trompe l'Oeiled  (another new word?) instead of muralized which would be closer to the true description of the paintings. 

GATE, OKLAHOMA

 

This sign was just on a vacant lot next to the  side of a seemingly vine-painted building & The artist painted almost life sized  things everywhere she could.


We had lunch at Laurie's Cafe. Not bad, Not bad.

The wooden fence to the right is also painted with life sized "westerners" & their pack animals , doggies  & horses.

 You can barely see it but the two people standing in front of the white fence on the right side of the cafe are painted on.

(No, not the person leaning on the light-post....oops....awning support. He's for real )

 The mural goes all around the corner on that fence for quite a ways. We cannot see here in the photo above.

 Joey getting his shoe "horsed" no...horseshoed......something like that.

Can you see the kitty in the upstairs window?

 

Joey Being a Cowboy. Hey, Cowboy where's your hat?

 

 

 

Joey wanted to give the little fella a lift up.

 

 

 

Classic Trucks Tucumcari, New Mexico

A few days after the Solvang, Ca part of our trip. We drove eastward across I-40 through Arizona, New Mexico & the upper corner of the Texas panhandle above Amarillo.

We got off of the interstate to stay at an RV camp here in Tucumcari, NM & saw this gem of an old gas station with murals, old signs & trucks trucks trucks.



This is exactly the kind of surprise that we absolutely love as we travel along.
We dilly-dallied at this old gas station for at least  45 minutes.
We were the only ones around & had it all to ourselves.

Now you know why we often only average about 160 miles a day!

We needed to make a U-Turn to not miss this one! Not as easy as it sounds with a travel trailer in tow. We are about 37 feet long altogether.
Luckily the turning radius of our car & trailer is quite good & we actually make U-Turns more than we ever expected we would or could!

Once we learned we could....well, we do! It's always a little scary but satisfying. We are SURE glad we don't have a larger rig!

MISC On The Road In the Boonies AZ OK KS

Meteor Crater AZ Remember the movie Starman? Well, this was the crater where Jeff Bridges got picked up by his "ship".
Actually, this is the rest area on the I-40 which has a cutoff that takes one several miles back to the crater. Joey & I have been there before so this trip we'll bypass it to skedaddle  off to Canada.

We DO love the red rocks all over the western states but this short stop in the rest area will have to tide us over until next trip in the West.

This is somewhere in OK or KS.
Once when we were younger & we were in Edmonton , Canada I got a photo of Joey on TOP of one of these. I'm not sure if they've gotten bigger or if ......well, you know?

We had four days of 104 degree temperatures. Dry but still hot as hell. These cow shots on the fly made me happy to know that my camera would be able to grab some shots speeding down the road as Joey drove.
 I turned the camera's dial to the SPORTS mode & even though we were moving along at a clip it was able to somewhat "freeze" these smart cows getting out of the sun trying to stay cool under the trees.

Every once in awhile a cow or two would have been outside of the group. I felt sorry for them. I wondered if cows can have a social problem?