Good-bye, city life...

If you said, "The part Eva Gabor sang in the theme song to the TV show Green Acres, 1965 to 1971," you get 200 bonus points.

We left that very nice RV park at the Winstar Casino this morning, heading north.  Only two more big cities to drive through: Oklahoma City (Metro population around 1.4 million), which you have to drive through a lot of it; and Witchita, Kansas (population around 400,000), but we pretty much skirt the southwest part of the city to take I-135 north.

From here on, it is rural areas and small(ish) towns/cities.

It was about 120 miles to Oklahoma City from the Casino.  The last time we drove the Interstate in Oklahoma, it was rough and unpleasant - part of the reason we started doing back roads.  This stretch was downright pleasant...

Starting about Moore, south of OKC, the traffic thickened up.  A bunch.  We work as a team - Joan watches for road signs and drivers coming on from entrance ramps, I keep our rig between the lines and match speed with the flow.  You have to do a bit of zigging and zagging to stay on I-35, but we made it through unscathed.  The road surface goes downhill from there.

We continued our trek north.  Made a stop for fuel in northern OK, and then into Kansas...

Yep, it is pretty flat here...

As we cruised north on I-35 (toll road in KS), the wind started kicking up from the southwest.  That turned into a crosswind as our path wandered more to the northwest.  Our goal for the night is a small RV park in McPherson, KS, that got decent reviews on-line.  We have to backtrack a mile or so after turning off the Interstate to get to it.  After last night's resort, calling this one a "park" is being generous...

The wind was blowing like stink when we pulled in.  The lady I spoke with to make the reservation yesterday was nice as could be.  She told me then to just pull in and pick a site and text her to let her know we had arrived.  I paid for it on the phone.  Easy.  The whole place is gravel, but all we need is a place to park, put the jacks down, and plug in so we can run the air conditioning.  Plenty of blowing dirt in the air, so I won't be going for a walk.

We get a decent selection of channels off our antenna, and Joan checked out the laundry here and declared it small (2 washers, 2 dryers), but very clean.  While I made reservations for the next two nights, Joan did a couple loads of laundry.  We will be good to go in the morning.  Rufus won't be going outside - besides the heat, I am concerned the wind would carry him away... and he is a rather stout boy.  Oh, and a good boy.  (I mention that so Earl and Alice can participate in their drinking game: take a drink every time Jim says, "Rufus is a good boy."  Just doing my part.)