Well loyal followers, it's official, we are now traveling though the FLATTEST country I have ever seen. This is beautiful country out here, currently we are traveling due west (still) on I40 West heading towards Amarillo. This is man's country with a mix of some hard woman out here. Every man I've seen it seems is wearing at least a camo hat with a mustache wrangler jeans work boots/real cowboy boots. We look out the van window and as Luke so greatly put it, you see so far the; DUDE the only reason you don't see farther is because the earth curves!"
This trip has been everything I could have wished for, we are making great time, and God has truly blessed us along the way so far, we should be hitting our destination for the night in less then three hours, but not before we make a quick detour, whats this detour? Well in the many hours we've spent in the van today as given me ample time to research the map, and I noticed this little tiny road off I40 right at the Texas/Oklahoma border, and after a little loser research(it was actually a pure mistake) I found this road to be route 66! So after about 30 seconds of debate we decided to take the little detour and roll into Texas on Route 66.
About two or so hours ago we rolled into Oklahoma City an a noteworthy culture experience occurred! We happened to find a parking spot right on the same spot as this African American religious group dressed in white sheets protesting that Jesus was black (as my friend Cass from back home put it so appropriately, "does his color really matter"?) We got within 25 yards of the protest and we decided that was close enough for us, so we then meandered along to the Oklahoma City Federal Building bombing memorial which was well worth the 10 minute stop!
Anyways, Luke is in search of the hat that "John Wayne and Crocodile Dundee's son would wear" on this trip, so he has constantly been in search of this perfect hybrid hat.... Well as we were barreling due west through Western Oklahoma (what else is new haha) we saw this Cherokee Indian store so of course we stopped and Luke and Tom found these awesome cowboy hats, like the kind of hat a Texas rancher would be proud of, but Luke said it didn't have the right feel so we decided to move along in our quest of Amarillo. (But not before we took some photos with the bison in Indian garb!)
Anyways to close day three we have traveled from Memphis Tenn to Amarillo Texas, we drove for 12 hours and 730 miles, that is hauling my friend =) We drove though two full states and saw the real heartland of America. Anyways time for bed and much needed sleep. Until tmw my friends!
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