Days 3 & 4 (Arkansas and Oklahoma)

We enjoyed the hills on I-40 from Little Rock west. We stayed at Onapa RV Park close to Checotah, OK (Passport America). It was small but did the job. There was a nice breeze when we pulled in so we didn't need to turn on the air conditioner. The majority of the sites were taken by pipe line workers. There was one tiny trailer that housed a family with at least two kids, one of which had to be at least twelve. Everything was quite dry and from what one young woman told us, work was hard to find.We went into Checotah and the only building which had been beautified was a train depot (which looked like a freight station0 with a caboose next to it.

The trip across Oklahoma was dry, quite windy, and hot. We stopped at Texola on the border of Oklahoma and Texas for the night at Double D RV Park (Passport America). Nothing to write home about, but the sites were level, a nice size and 50 amps elec. It was so hot and windy that it was hard on the dogs to walk much so we waited till dusk to walk very far with them.

Pat found two neat flowers in the dried grass. One was purple with five petals, each with a line radiating from the center which made it look like a star. The center was bright yellow and the leaves were a grey green with ruffled edges. She found it on the internet - Western Horse Nettle (Solanum dimidiatum Raf).

The other had a flower about six inches tall which looked looked like a rag mop on top. The leaves were very close to the ground and also grey green. We haven't been able to identify it yet, partly because the flower is spent and it is the seedhead, not the actual flower. If anyone knows what this is, please let us know.

Driving down the road, we saw the weirdest sight, a leaning water tower. That is what it looks like, but I think it is a portable tower used for who knows what?