Van Buren, Arkansas and Rain

Left Amarillo about 7:45 this morning  Actually felt lazy and decadent and happy to slow down a little. This was the first morning I left in daylight. 

Most of the day was spent driving across Oklahoma which can be fairly boring except for a couple of things: the interstate is mostly concrete roadway which makes you feel like you are going backwards a little everytime you hit a seam in the concrete. Makes for a sort of minor whiplash effect. Also it seems many famous people were born in OK and all of them in teeny tiny towns: Woody Guthrie, Sheppard, the astronaut, and several others ( I needed a co-pilot to write them all down.

I stopped at a Route 66 museum on Elk City and it was really neat. It had several outbuildings and information on the Dust Bowl. Then went by a local dairy and had delicious ice cream. Elk City has the first cooperative hospital in the US.

Also had the unfortunate  problem of someone in NM hacking my credit card and have now had to start using another.

However, that is just a bump in an incredible journey! People have been so friendly and I've learned so much in the past days.

Heavy rain is predicted here tonight and early tomorrow so I may be here until later in the morning. Hoped to make Greenville Wednesday afternoon, but now it  looks like Thursday instead. 

Hopefully more pics tomorrow. 

Thanks for reading!

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