Travel Report

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• $2.99 – price of gas in Springfield, MO
• "Do Not Drive Into Smoke" –signs posted throughout OK. Okay…. You’re driving. Along a turnpike. There’s smoke. Now what is it you are supposed to do?
• Oklahoma City – first reception of an all Spanish radio broadcast. You gotta love the tuba and accordian duets.
• $2.93 – price of gas in Oklahoma City
• 5 miles west of Oklahoma City – sighting of first armadillo road kill
• OK Turnpike restroom – sighting of two stars of a boy band. I have no idea which one. (You do a google search on "boy band" images and you'll see why I couldn't precisely locate one of them.) How did I know they were a boy band? My car would fit 10x into their extravagant chauffeured bus. And they were too young to be a man band.
• 4 – the number of Louisiana license plates seen heading west
• Custer City, OK – Cherokee Restaurant and home of the “Collectible Porcelain Dolls”. Yeah, well. Can’t anything be collected, thus making it a collectible?
• $3.04 – price of gas in Amarillo, TX (88 octane)
• 51.5 miles – distance west of Amarillo when radio reception was reduced to only one station
• 7 miles more – distance traveled before losing all radio reception
• NM state line –first sighting of a NM license plate. I kid you not; it was simultaneous with the state line. Spooky. Do New Mexicans exist outside of New Mexico?
• $3.09 – price of gas in Albuquerque, NM (86 octane)