Red Rock Canyon State Park Hinton, Oklahoma

Mileage:  52,710

I was awake at 4:45 this morning watching Orion in the night sky.  The constellation was gorgeous and surrounded by all kinds of stars we never see at home.  I wanted to go outside and look but the wind was howling.  My first thought was of those cyclists who were leaving today to do 65 miles…how would they ever make it in that kind of wind.  My second thought was about traveling in the RV in all that wind.  The long sides tend to act like a sail.  Thankfully the wind had died down a lot by first light.

We got to start the day with FaceTime.  We talked to David and watched Oliver run all over the playground.  What a great beginning for our Friday!

We saw these goats in a field while we were fueling the RV.

The wind farm that began near our campground continued east for another 28 miles.  Wind turbines are not a novelty here.  We saw them all day today, in Texas and then in Oklahoma as well.

Cadillac Ranch is an art installation.  A wealthy man hired a group of “hippie” artists called The Ant Farm back in 1974 to create a work of art to put in one of his fields.  They came up with the idea to bury 10 Cadillacs nose down and fins sticking up.  People began to come and see this “sculpture.”  Tourists began by taking pieces of the cars as souvenirs and then they began to bring cans of spray paint.  To this day people still go and paint was is left of the cars.  This is a picture from Route 40.

Today our ride was through flat farming country.  Fields of hay and cotton flanked the highway.  Cattle ranches with real cowboys are common here.

Welcome to Oklahoma!  BBQ Brisket for lunch at Billy Sims BBQ…fall apart tender and delicious!

It was 87 degrees and windy for most of the day.

We stayed at Red Rock Canyon State Park.  It wasn’t too far from the highway.  It is pretty and peaceful here and a nice place to ride our bikes.  There are rappelling areas in the park where people climb the canyon walls.  Kyle we were thinking of you today!!