The Americas! (Part IV)

Monday - travel day. We did the 8 hour drive from Tulsa to Houston with D&D.

Before hitting the road I had some x-rays taken of a small bone spur on my right tibia. (Diagnosis: benign.)

Overheard by Amanda in the clinic's waiting room:

(To be read in an Oklahoman accent)

Old Lady 1: "I tell you, computers are the devil. They got your whole life on there. Except when you want them to."
Old Lady 2: "mmm hmmm. I expect you're right."

Items spotted:

• Longhorn steer
• Camels
• Heaps of extra-denominational churches (e.g. Christ Bible Church of the Savior)
• Religious bumper stickers
• Intense thunderstorms
• Flooding in Paris, TX.  (I have finally been to Paris, France and Paris, TX)
• HUGE lightning strikes
• Natural gas wells
• Buzzards
• A hawk
• Horses
• Ponies (!)
• Cattle
• Wild hog traps for sale
• Goats
• Big box stores (so many...)

An exchange I had with the woman running an antique store in Canton, TX (pop. 5,100) at which we stopped along the way:

Me: "Do you know if there is anything like a Starbucks* in town?"

Her: "Oh gosh, we don't have anything fancy like that here!"

* Desperate times call for desperate measures.