Continuing south we left Colorado, crossed the panhandle of Oklahoma into Texas.
Beautiful downtown Campo, Colorado, the last town before the border. Leaving Colorful Colorado.
Welcome to Oklahoma. Oklahoma was the reservation where they made all the Indians they didn’t want walk to along the Trail of Tears in the early USA. So now Oklahoma is the state that has the highest population of Native Americans in the US. I love this Christmas dinosaur in Boise City, Ok.
The Tin man is in Boise City. Seems a ways from Kansas. Lunch while we are on the road. I get up and make a PBJ while John continues driving.
Oklahoma vista. Welcome to Texas. Lots of agriculture in this area.
Stafford , the first town into Texas is the Pheasant Capital of Texas. It is also home to the Ink Slingers Tattoo parlor and the Ol’ Biddy Cafe, with comfort food and desserts. John wanted to stop and get coffee at the Ol’ Biddy, but she was closed. Lots of windmill farms along this whole route from south eastern Colorado to Texas. They grow cotton here, see the big bales of cotton wrapped in yellow? They also had oil derricks in the cotton fields. The farther south we go, the cheaper the gas gets.
We arrived at Lake Meredith National monument in time to take a nice walk about before dark. There are groves of mesquite trees around the lake, which is very low, Texas is having a drought.
A few photos of the bus at Lake Meredith. The roads into the campsites were not very good, so we boondocked in the overflow boat parking lot. The boat ramp is closed since the water is 3/4 of a mile from the lake now, so we are the only ones here. Nice and quiet and dark. Feels great to be on the road again. There is a 60% chance of thunder storms tonight here. Much better than the 60% chance of snow in Colorado.
Here is the lake, dam and Dam store.
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