{"id":1708,"date":"2009-07-06T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2014-06-15T05:13:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:13:00","slug":"my-world-oklahoma-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=1708","title":{"rendered":"My World – Oklahoma Road Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"
I had a four day weekend so we decided to take a little road trip from Tulsa.<\/div>\n

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First we headed off to Oklahoma City<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/a>On the way we took a small detour on old Route 66 so I could find a few geocaches. One place we looked was at this old gas station right on the road. The landowner left a little informative sign. Apparently their was a counterfeiting operation here during the depression. Also, not long ago somebody dumped a body. We didn’t see a body but somebody had dumped a kitten there. Very sad.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>A little further on we stopped at “Pops<\/a>.” A diner\/gas station on route 66 near Arcadia. Built by an Oklahoma Oilman this place boasts over 400 kinds of soda pop. I believe it! We only had one each.<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/a>SuperPizzaBoy had a “Mexican” Coke, Sweetie a Grape Nehi.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>I had some sort of Black Cherry Cream Soda. They were all great.<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/a>A little blast from the past, we went by the first house that Sweetie and I lived in when got married. Nearly 20 years ago.<\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Next, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art<\/a>. It was great. They had a exhibition on “Turner to Cezanne” from the National Museum of Wales. Plus the museum is know of their Dale Chihuly glass exhibit. Breathakingly beautiful works of glass. Check out his web site here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

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\"\"<\/a>We spent the night in downtown Oklahoma City. We ate dinner and saw a movie in Bricktown. Lots of canals, restaurants, bars, and a movie theater.<\/p>\n

Next day, we ate breakfast and headed down to Duncan, Oklahoma to see the Chisholm Trail Heritage Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\"\"<\/a>This is a small museum but well worth seeing. They have an interactive, hands on area, great for kids, and a regular museum with some great works. The star of the show is a multimedia presentation about a cattle drive. It is multi D. So when it rains you get sprinkled, you also smell the bacon and coffee on the campfire. When the longhorn’s stampede you feel it in your seat.<\/p>\n

Next, it was back north to Norman to the University of Oklahoma. They are working hard in Norman to make a university for which the football team can be proud. The University is home to the Fred Jones Museum of Art<\/a>. The basis of the art collection is the Weitzenhoffer collection the university received several years back. Works by Degas, Gauguin, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, among others are in the collection. They also had an exhibition of the Rennard Strickland Collection of Native American Art.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We really liked it but our eyes were getting a little glassy from what SuperPizzaBoy called our “Museumathon.” So we loaded up, drove to Oklahoma City to Johnnies for hamburgers and great ice tea and then booked it home.<\/p>\n

Check out That’s My World<\/a> for great photos of our world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a four day weekend so we decided to take a little road trip from Tulsa. First we headed off to Oklahoma City On the way we took a small detour on old Route 66 so I could find a few geocaches. One place we looked was at this old gas station right on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,715,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boring-personal-history","category-family","category-my-world","category-oklahoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}