Arkansas and Oklahoma

Bob and I woke up Thursday morning in Tennessee to a beautiful sunrise. What a lovely spot!

Then we were off to Russellville, Arkansas, about 275 miles away. We had no troubles getting to Arkansas and spent the night in a nice little park just off the highway. First thing this morning (Friday) we were back on the road and headed for Oklahoma City.

Bob and I have been keeping watch behind us on this trip to make sure we didn’t run afoul of a Hurricane Michael. In doing so, we completely missed the fact that Hurricane Sergio was in front of us. Sergio landed in Mexico and has been making its way eastward towards our path, bringing rain to Arizona, New Mexico, northern Texas, and Oklahoma. Today we met up with the remnants of it and we saw rain.

We were doing just fine until we were driving through a construction zone with concrete barriers at the edge and a big truck blasted past us way too closely on our right, whacking our side view mirror in the process. Bob pulled off the road as soon as he was able and checked it. Fortunately the arm bracket did not sustain any damage, but the mechanism that adjusts the angle of the mirror is not working properly. Bob is addressing it and will figure out how to fix it I’m sure. We had planned on two nights here in Oklahoma City anyway to give us a little break from the daily drive so the timing works out.

While we are in OKC I’m hoping to visit the Cowboy Museum here. I’ll let you know how that goes!