They're Everywhere! They're Everywhere!

... windmills that is. We saw windmills last year and this year through much of the west ... north, south, and throughout the midwest in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, etc. But I don't think of I've ever seen as many as along I-40 here in Texas. We've seen them moving in the window, shut down and still for maintenance or repair and pieces being hauled around. A couple of times we saw the huge blades for these windmills being trucked along the interstate.

These windmills seem to be placed in crop fields and cattle pastures and anywhere they think they may catch enough wind especially on the north side of I-40. I don't think we saw any in the feed lots you can smell all along the interstate though.

Near Exit 60, you can see to the south an attraction known as Cadillac Ranch. It was created in 1974 by part of the art group from the Ant Farm in San Francisco. Variously referred to as an artwork, a sculpture, or a junkyard. it consists of a row of Cadillacs sitting nose first in a row in the ground. An armada of people have painted the car bodies with graffiti over and over through the years. There were even songs about it by Chris Ledoux and by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

After lunch in Amarillo we passed a seriously tilted water tower right by the interstate near Groom, Texas. We had no clue it was intentional until just now (March 2018) when I looked it up on Google! Several links talk about it including Wikipedia and WeirdU.S. and it seems that although it originally served as the water supply for a truck stop. Around 1980 it was turned into an attention-getter and even though the truck stop closed about five years later, the tower survives, continuing to attract tourists and unsuspecting passersby.

We arrived at our overnight stop at Elk Creek RV Park in Elk City, Oklahoma before 6pm and departed about 9 the next morning headed for Oklahoma City and hopefully and end to frequent screw tightening.

On our way we did figure out one of our mystery cargoes when we spotted a truck full of the mysterious white bundles but these were marked Cotton USA and Bale Gard.Other than that we have seen the expected round hay bales, cattle, feed lots, water tanks, etc.

Finally, after navigating the Kilpatrick Turnpike we arrived at the Camping World in Oklahoma City. We had to wait a little while but eventually they returned Wolf to us, having replaced all the screws with a bigger size that they assured us should not fall out. We continued east passing Tinker AFB with planes displayed right along I-40 and Lake Eufala and Lottawatta Road. The latter is not an Indian name or word but simply an invention of the highway sign department.

We stopped overnight at the KOA in Sallisaw, Oklahoma, also known as the Fort Smith West KOA.