I left NJ on Saturday the 15th. I woke up late, after a rather smashing time in the city with friends, packed, and after buying groceries to take me through 2 days of driving (yes, I am a food snob) and stopping off to see my Dad in his nursing home, I was finally on the road at 4 PM.
Starting a cross country road trip at 4 is a bit silly, but I drove off anyway, making it to somewhere in Ohio by midnight, staying at Motel 8. When I began the next morning, my GPS said 997 miles to my destination. Ouch. In one day.
I didn’t stop, except to fill up my tank, and empty my own tank. It got rough about 450 miles to go, but the last 200 went pretty quickly, all things considered. Note to self and everybody else – don’t ever drive 1000 miles in a day.
Oklahoma had just been hit by ice storms, but my friends place had power. I collapsed, slept late, and toured the Oklahoma City bombing memorial and museum the next day, which was well worth it. I also stopped by the OKC boathouse, which was a beautifully built new boathouse, and took a few pictures of it at night (below). It was bittersweet seeing it, after Rutgers just lost its men’s team. structure. I felt happy for them, but awful since Rutgers crew has just been eviscerated by the Administration.
The whole area is a bit limited, culinary, but amazingly OKC is chock full of Vietnamese restaurants. I ate at Lido, a well known one, and was so hungry I took home an extra order – Vietnamese Curried Frog Legs, and watched Eraserhead alone in an eerie apartment. Strangest evening.
