The day began cool & windy. We decided to have a treat and eat breakfast out. (I think this was only our 3rd time for breakfast). Found our way to a local Cracker Barrel and had a good meal! Then back onto I40 toward Oklahoma. Again the wind was strong & gusty, but the direction had shifted to the NNW and we were constantly fighting to stay in our lane. We tried to maintain 70 in the 75 speed limit but had to drop down to 65 to be comfortable. The Texas farmland was immense, with plowed fields sometimes stretching a mile or more along the highway, and almost as far as you could see running out from there.
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| Texas farm |
Another common sight in both TX & OK were abandoned businesses. Many exits along the interstate were populated by closed and scavenged buildings of previous gas stations and restaurants. Also we saw many abandoned silos and grain elevators.
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| Abandoned grain elevator! |
There also have been many abandoned homes throughout the SW, just sitting there with no windows, partial roofs and rusted out cars, trailers and other metal scrap. I can't say they look newly abandoned, but rather signs of many years gone by.
Wind turbines are another familiar sight in TX & OK. Sometimes there are groups as large as 30-40 grouped together along a ridge line.
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| Largest cross in the world!(?) |
Just before arriving at our campground, on the east side of the city, we passed Tinker AFB a large logistics center for the Air Force. I never visited there, but remember Northrop doing much spare parts business with them. I'm sitting at the picnic table in our campground typing and the wind has finally stopped. It's a pleasant afternoon with the temperature in the low 70's and predicted to be in the low 50's tonight.
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