007 (April 10th, 2009)

Aright, maybe we should just turn back now. My notes to myself are clearly not working out. Maybe just skip the notes for now and look at the pictures at the bottom of each page.

I must have woken up hungry for BBQ. I had a roadtrip book with me so wrote down some phone numbers... maybe I didn't have internet unless I could find wifi? To my knowledge I didn't end up using any of the phone numbers.

I went to a bakery and laughed to myself when the owner recommended Toby Keith's restaurant in Oklahoma city.

I scratched out "downtown OKC" in my notebook but ended up getting lost and riding past a memorial to the bombing which was needless to say, very sad. I'm not sure if it was the field with all the chairs in it that I see online, for some reason I am remembering something smaller with desks.

I went to a round barn that was also from the roadtrip book. Although it was fairly old, the Butch they mentioned was still the only employee there. He had a bunch of photos of round barns throughout the country mailed to him from past visitors; I got the sense that these simple gestures meant a lot to him so decided I'd send him a photo at some point in my life.

I got soda from a shop called Pops that had a bunch of sodas and not much else.

I went to Toby Keith's because that was about the only restaurant in town. It was OK; seems like it probably is a rocking place on the weekends.

I had a couple other mnemonic devices to remember my thoughts while riding - they represented some gibberish thoughts that are now entirely lost to me. Perhaps the #4 being blank was a reference to a Violent Femmes song?

At the end of the night, I gave up trying to find an official camp ground and just pulled off on a couple of side roads until I could find a plot of grass. I realized after starting to unpack that I was on or near a Texan farmer's land near his cattle and decided I better get as little sleep as possible and be gone before he woke up in the morning so as to not be shot.