It was an overcast start to the morning, with folks starting to come in to the park to walk their dogs as we got up and started to get ready. There was even a slight cool breeze in the air. Junk and Objects Not far from us was the Castle of Junk, the home of […]
We'd stayed across the road from Mayfield Park and Nature Reserve, and after a hot night, it was already shaping up to be a stinker of a day when we left in the morning. The neighborhood around the Park turned out to be incredibly posh, and we oohed and aahed at the swanky homes that […]
We weren't parked on the railway tracks by accident last night, so we survived the rush of two trains honking so loud that they sounded like they were going to run us over! The Silos at Magnolia First thing in the morning, we walked over to the Silos at Magnolia, which were old grain storage […]
We weren't ready for it, but our alarm woke us up just after 6am, as the parking meter kicked in at 7am at the spot where we'd parked. But when we left around 6.30am or so, downtown Dallas was already coming to life, with cars whizzing past us, people stepping out of the Aloft Hotel […]
When Lisette lifted up the blinds on her side to take her daily photo of what the view was from outside her window, she was surprised to see a truck parked so close to us, that only the truck and the word "FOOD" could be seen. It'll be good to compile a video at the […]
From the town of Norman, we stopped first at Chickasha (this is a fun town name to say!) in Oklahoma, for a quirky American roadside stop: a leg lamp! The sculpture, which is 12 meters (40 feet) tall and stands on a 3 meter (10 foot) box, is modeled after the prop that appeared in the […]
We headed back to Oklahoma City to wrap up some of the things we hadn’t done yesterday. We were driving down the highway and when we got to the city, a pickup truck pulled up next to us, and the couple honked to get our attention. They told us that we had just lost our […]
We had only one light out of four showing how much propane we had left for the last couple of days. It's not always easy to find propane refills for RVs (sometimes a gas station will have it, but not all branches, sometimes the place will have it but only at certain hours, etc). Usually […]
Driving further into Oklahoma the next morning, we saw all these store chain names that we'd never heard of before: Ollie's (a discount store), Heartland Grocery and Pharmacy, Golden Chick (a fried chicken franchise), and Willy's Wash (ok, this was real but seemed to only be one store in Oklahoma--still, that store name would be […]
Today is July 4, US Independence Day! We celebrated it by first visiting the World's Largest Belt Buckle in the town of Abilene, Kansas. It was unveiled at the end of 2022, with the aim of drawing more tourists to stop and visit. Clearly it worked--we went to check it out! The area was already […]