Day 142, June 18, 2015 Texas, Oklahoma

8 am.  Up and showered and now time for breakfast.   The wonderful choices available to us this morning are Starbucks or Burger King. Burger King it is I guess.   Greg is having the eggs and sausage.   No sugar before driving.  He falls asleep.   I’m just having a bacon crissonwich.   No eggs for me!  
 

Made it to our destination with plenty of time to spare.   Had a little hiccup starting out as the trailer breaks didn’t want to let go but they finally released and we were good to go.  

Dallas Texas.  108 degrees!!  Guess the storm is over.  

  

Well, gotta go by tire place.  That brake is still sticking.   Hope we aren’t long!    We weren’t too long.  Had a nail in the tire so they fixed it and we are off again.   Headed to Sherman, Texas for juice and then to Nebraska. 

Got to Sunny Delight in Sherman and the trailer has a broken landing gear.   Call in to roadside assist.   Oh boy.  

Only took about two hours to get fixed.  Not bad but time lost today.   Back on the road.  

Crossed in to oklahoma in just about half an hour or so.   There has been a lot of flooding through here.  The streams and rivers are really high and muddy and just churning with debri and how fast they are going.   Several spots where it looks like it has been across the road but thankfully no standing water.   We went through one area that looked fhe like electricity was out in all the stores.  

Passed a couple of casinos though who didn’t seem to have any trouble with the lights.  

   
 

We went by one casino who had Chubby Checker and Jerry Lee Lewis performing.  I didn’t know those guys were still around.   Another one had Boston, Pink Floyd and REO Speedwagon. So I guess old rockers don’t die they just play the Indian casinos.  

We have parked for the night just outside Oklahoma City in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Parking lot here is soaked and muddy.   Looks like it flooded here too.  So sad.   

Well, going to watch a bit of TV and turn in.  Goodnight y’all.  

 DG:  Off to a shaky start but all is good now. Little over five hundred miles to go tomorrow.  Make that easy. But need sleep first. 

Love to all. Good night and God bless. 

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