Ride across the USA

[flynrider]

According to Spot he's making his way across Oklahoma on I-40. Good road choice for that area.

Don't be in too much of a hurry, Django. You don't want to catch up with that large, slow moving line of thunderstorms that are a few hundred miles east of you.

[LongRanger_imp]

Those are the same storms that dropped over a foot of snow in the Rockies this past weekend. Good timing!

[Inhouse Bob]

You just went by a bunch of my relatives in Oklahoma. I hope they waved to you!

[RLS_imp]

Django, will you be coming through Memphis on your way to Birmingham?

[Django]

RLS,, no, not Memphis. Tomorrow still in the Ozark s, Wednesday to Birmingham.

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[Django]

Yesterday I started out in Cuchara.



If you ever happen to be in that area, ride the scenic bypass highway 12 to Trinidad. It's well worth it if you like scenic and twisties.







After that the landscape became flat,



meeting a train,



even more flat.



In Germany we have a saying, if you are in the middle of nowhere, you are in "Pampa". Here we are:



Yesterday was highway day, riding thru those little morbid towns, partly abandoned. After staying the night at the KOA near Elk City, today was Interstate day and the Ozarks in the afternoon.

Near Oklahoma City the traffic get more crowded.



That's Oklahoma City



and after burning some more gas we enter Arkansas.



The Ozarks I really like! Lots of twisties and no speed limit beside the 55 miles. Arkansas seems not to pamper the traffic like they do in Colorado.



This night I stay in Kingston. Seems to have seen better times, too.

[emptysea]

Not sure that Kingston has ever seen better times.
Interesting probably only to myself, I’ve gassed up in Kingston three times on three different trips to that area.
There are some great roads right around you. Hope you get to experience them.

[max]

Found some blue sky for a change, excellent.
Just no idea how much open country there still is, what's it like on those endless perfect straight roads?
Nothing like that here in NZ.
Cheers Django, keep dry!

[Bazbro_imp]

Those big, open, straight roads are almost 'motorways'! The Ozark twisties - much better.

But with such vast distances to cover in the US, I can't imagine travelling on twisties all the way!

It takes me five hours to travel from SW England to Manchester in the North...!!

Thanks for the great updates, Django. Safe journey.

[Wisedrum]

Django, enjoy your US-trip, stay tuned and find interesting roads to travel. Highways are always after a while sort of boring but often one has no other choice than to ride a long distance from A to B within an acceptable amount of time.

When reading your explanation of 'Pampa' another German word comes to my mind 'Walachei'. Could be used for the same scenery, if you want so, as Herrendorf did in his book 'Tschik'.

Wisedrum