So today has been pretty uneventful. We broke camp at the KOA this morning in Amarillo and drove to Shamrock, TX for breakfast. We had a nice one at a little café attached to a motel. Then it was back in the car for most of the day.
We bought supplies at WalMart to get us through dinner at our campsite. We stopped in Oklahoma at an ice cream place called Braum’s. Then we drove into the town of Okmulgee and found our way out to Okmulgee State Park. It was hot and humid. We set up camp, hiked down by the lake a little bit, then made our beans and franks. It was great! I’m a little afraid of taking a shower here—there is a slight bug issue. But I think I’m going to chance it because I’m sticky from the humidity. It’s cooled down nicely, and I wish you could hear the chorus out here. On a volume level of one to ten, where 10 would be deafening, it’s about a 6. More species of bugs than I care to think about. But it sounds pretty. Tomorrow we’ll break camp pretty early, before the humidity gets really bad, and then set off for Missouri. I’ll let you know then how the shower was tonight.
Ok, it's the next night. The shower wasn't bad at all. I thought it was going to be "refreshing," aka freezing, but it warmed up really nicely. There was no bug issue--a few critters out by the sinks, but the showers were clear.
The fireworks started later that night. We had a massive thunder and lightning storm. It was the weirdest thing, though--there wasn't any wind down at our level. It must have been blowing up higher, but it was really weird having it storm with no noticeable wind. Right when the storm was about to get to us, all those bugs quit making so much noise. It was a pretty incredible night.
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