Note to self...Don't do this again.

Strange goings on...mainly because I've been up about 36 hours and my brain is starting to refuse to work right. I went to bed last night planning on getting up very early and starting on my trip with a long day drive to Amarillo. I laid in bed a couple hours unable to sleep and decided to just get started. It was a bright full moon and I was already packed so I grabbed some coffee, ate a quick breakfast and was heading out of town at 2:45. There was nobody on the road except me and a few truckers. Everything went fine until I got past Springfield and I got very sleepy. I finally pulled into a truck stop parking lot and tried to take a nap. No luck sleeping but being off the road for 45 minutes helped.

I'm too tired to tell the whole story. It was an up and down day with me stopping every couple hours just to get off the road. The interstate is boring through Oklahoma for the most part and that didn't help much. I finally pulled in to Amarillo at 3:30, almost thirteen hours of driving. My dad did this sort of long, nonstop driving without any problems but I'm going back to my usual casual road trip pace.

And furthermore...

After almost 13 hours of sleep I'm feeling much better. After looking at a map, the halfway point is Weatherford or Clinton Oklahoma and both of those places are reasonable size and have motels. Weatherford is home to Southwestern Okla. State Univ. Clinton is a town of about 9,000 and home Toby Keith. I won't hold that against them. I drove through Clinton. Here's a few pictures...





Downtown Clinton

Convention Center