Oklahoma is OK

I really liked the "Oklahoma is OK" on the old license plates here. However, the new ones say "Oklahoma - Native America" with a picture of an Indian shooting an arrow. Call me politically incorrect, but I don't get it. Why is Oklahoma more native than, say, Delaware? Or even Connecticut, since our CT Indians make the most money from their casinos. I think that makes us more native.

One has lots of time to ponder such things when following our extremely complex route of the past few days. We've ridden 168 miles on U.S. 54 in a dead straight line to the Northeast. To make it more exciting, today was the flattest 72 miles I've ever seen - only 350 feet of elevation gain. In Steamboat, I do more climbing going back and forth to Walmart on my bike.

We thought today was going to be a recovery of ride of sorts. We've ridden 354 miles over the past 4 days, with 5 straight days of riding ahead. It seemed sensible to take it easy on a nice, flat ride. However, mother nature had different plans. We had a stiff headwind the last 30 miles, which Greg appropriately described as a "flat hill". It took a toll, and my legs are really tired. Hopefully, the winds will be favorable tomorrow.

This was the highlight today.

Now that's a Texan.

I found the following interesting. This was a about a mile down the road from the next pic.

An interesting mix of the old and the new. That first thing is an oil pump, for all you liberal hippy Easterners.