Eric & I Continue Our Drive West to the Oklahoma Panhandle

Today's a long drive day...  Eric and I will drive 61/2 hours to a roadside picnic area near Keyes, Oklahoma.  The motorhome packed up and ready to leave at 7:30 am.  We fuel up at Dillons with the Plus Shopper's Card and get 2 cents off per gallon on diesel.  That's a great way to start our day.

The rolling hills of Kansas

west of Topeka.

We start our day on

Interstate 70 West/

US 40.

We arrive in Abilene,

the boyhood home of 

President Eisenhower.

We are visiting the 

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Presidential Museum

this morning.

Now, we are following

US Route 56 southwest.

Western Kansas is

Cattle Country.

Roadside signs educate us.

Jack Kirby, the 2000

Nobel Prize Laureate

was born in Great Bend.

Today's drive is along

the Santa Fe Trail.

Dodge City is known as the

 "Queen of the Cowtowns."

Eric pointed out this Kansas

Department of Transportation

sign in Ensign. 

Eric and I thought we ran into a sun shower.  We wish it was a sun shower.  A swarm of insects gave up their lives as they hit our windshield.

One of the numerous

oil derricks we pass

on our long drive.

The Cement Tepee in

Satanta is listed on

Roadsideamerica.com

Just down the road is

the "Zebra House." 

Welcome to
Oklahoma







I ha to get out of the motorhome to get a clear photo of this sign.

The plains are scrubbier

looking here.

Eric will be cleaning our
bug encrusted windshield.

We are staying in a roadside

picnic area.

The motorhome hides the

shaded picnic table.

Other than the occasional passing car or truck, Eric and I are all alone.