Up at 4:30 to head to National Beef Company to get our load.   Nowhere else on earth are you going to hear these directions except Liberal, Kansas – “Turn left on Yellow Brick Road”.   I love it!

Well, after 5 hours we are finally on the road.  While doing the trailer inspection on the trailer we picked up Greg noticed it had 2 tires with bald spots on them.   Then he found two more.   So, long story short, we had to go to a tire shop and wait while they put on 4 new tires.

After we got the tires replaced we drove through Oklahoma.   We went from one end to the other.   We found a Pilot that is onliy about 10 miles from the Arkansas border.    Should make it to Georgia tomorrow or early Saturday.

These pictures are all of Oklahoma.   The field of yellow flowers are canola.   I looked it up after seeing field after field of them.   Apparently, weeds can get in the wheat field and they become resistant to all of the pesticides they use on them so they plant canola in order to cover the ground and so they can then use stronger poisons to kill the weeds.   Ok, this wheat is what our bread is made from.   I tell ya, no wonder there is so much gluten intolerance these days.   Never heard of it before now and now it seems its everywhere.    Could this be part of the reason?   Hmmmmm

http://kfor.com/2013/05/13/yellow-flowers-helping-oklahoma-wheat-crop/

Well, going to turn in and get ready for the long drive to Georgia tomorrow.   Goodnight, y’all.

DG:  Made it with 10 minutes to spare. I have a good navigator.  She’s pretty too. And makes the journey enjoyable. 

Well, you’ve seen Oklahoma and Kansas as many times as we have so what’s to say. They’re flat. They go on forever. One interesting thing I heard the other day that we didn’t mention and I never thought of until I heard it. A lady at the truck stop we stayed at in Liberal, a lifelong resident went to visit her daughter in Denver and got claustrophobic in the mountains with all the trees around her.  After looking at the openness of Kansas I began to understand her point. 

The Great Plains is an interesting place. I can only imagine what the European settlers thought of all the land available for ownership a concept totally foreign to them until then. 

Also surprised the Spanish didn’t settle this country before the English as they were here 100 years ahead of them. 

That’s all for now. Good night and God bless.