Entry for Saturday, 23 September 2000

Messages for teenagers in Enid.

Murals seem to be popular here. This is one in Dover, OK.

Another mural in Kingfisher, OK.

This is what the road looked like for most of the ride. Notice the smooth paved shoulder without the "wakeup" ridges which are found on most paved shoulders now-a-days.

Oklahoma has the best marked cemeteries I have ever seen. These signs seem to be everywhere.

These flowers grow wild throughout the West and are called sunflowers. They are not to be confused with the sunflowers whose seeds you can eat, or with black-eyed susans.

I believe this is called an Oklahoma bottle rocket.

Last Modified on 9/23/2000 at 19:44:36

Day's Narrative: It was cloudy this morning when I went to breakfast, with a wind from the North, and it stayed that way for all of today's ride. It looked a lot like rain so I wore a light rain jacket, planning to look for cover if it started to rain. It doesn't take much rain to get you soaking wet, and there's not much cover on these Oklahoma plains. The temperature was 61F (16C) when I started out around 7:30 a.m. When I reached El Reno at 1:30 p.m. it had risen to 63F (17C).

I hardly met anyone today. I've noticed that people don't talk as much when it's overcast. It was also a reasonably heavily traveled road, and the main route to Interstate 40 for people in Enid. It was not a very exciting ride. All the convenience stores that I saw had lots of customers and the clerks were busy -- too busy to pass the time of day.

I thought the ride today would be about 80 miles, but it was 65 miles instead. That was OK. It was a cool ride.

The weather report for tomorrow, Sunday, predicts a 70% chance of rain and high temperatures in the 50s (10C-15C). That's pretty chilly. I don't voluntarily ride in the rain. If it looks bad tomorrow morning, we'll just stay here another day. Monday is supposed to be warmer and no rain is predicted.

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