Stuck in an Ice Storm!

 

This is looking out the front door of the friend’s home in Oklahoma City’s that we have been holed up in for the last day and a half.  That is ICE on the grass to the right of the front walk.  Our friends headed down to Dallas for the World Series shortly after we arrived here on Monday. Tuesday shortly after 9am we lost the electricity due to ice in trees and on lines.  The house got colder and colder and about 9pm the lights came back on and the furnace cranked up.  

We have decided to head south to Dallas this morning and most likely on to San Antonia to something warmer.  After that...

We had enjoyed Tulsa, the Gilcrease Museum on Sunday with a wonderful exhibit of a  Cherokee basket creator, Shan Goshorn. She uses museum grade paper, cut into to thin strips with quotes from treaties and other literature affecting native Americans lives on each strip.  Then she weaves these into titled baskets in protest.

On Monday we stopped off in the Greenwood area of Tulsa, known as the Black Wall Street. In the early 1900’s a riot over an alleged black- on- white crime caused the white community to kill and burn this middle class black section of their city,  Look It Up!

We road on many sections of the old Route 66 including this bridge.  When 66 was first built the state of Oklahoma didn’t have enough money to make a two lane highway so they only built a road 9 feet wide.  It became known as the sidewalk road.  Oklahoma has many strips of the old road left despite the fact they too laid an interstate on top of much of the old road.

Just outside of Oklahoma City there is a new attraction on 66, the every kind of soda, pop you could ever want store.  As you can see from the picture it had started to rain, it was getting colder so we did a drive by of this gigantic sculpture of a soda bottle.  Just to the left of it is a white car to give you some reference to its size.

In closing, I offer you this version of a totem pole as interpreted by a fiddle player Oklahoman. Stay well and let us know if you are enjoying our blog.  Please pass on any suggestions. 


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