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STE2 Hop 6: Durant OK to Corsicana TX
157 miles via US 75, I-635, I-45 and TX 31 with a brief stop to figure out how we screwed up. Cumulative tow miles: 1297. Truck miles: 173. Cumulative truck miles: 1398. This was another hop that didn’t exactly go as planned. I intended to take a route that used US 69 instead of US … Continue reading
STE2 Hop 5: Bartlesville OK to Durant OK
222 miles via US 75, with a refueling stop and an unexpected detour in Tulsa. Cumulative tow miles: 1140. Truck miles: 285. Cumulative truck miles: 1225. This was probably the longest hop we have ever traveled on a single US route. US 75 travels basically due south all the way, so it was a logical … Continue reading
Pawhuska OK
We used our free day in Bartlesville OK to travel 20 miles to Pawhuska, in the Osage Reservation, and capital of Osage Nation. We visited the Osage Nation Museum, which is a nice little museum chronicling the history of the Osage tribe – including the period in the 1920’s when white men married Osage women, … Continue reading
STE2 Hop 4: Junction City KS to Bartlesville OK
209 miles via US 77, US 400, KS 99, US 166, US 75 and US 60 with a refueling stop in El Dorado KS. Cumulative tow miles: 918. Truck miles: 209. Cumulative truck miles: 940. The truck miles equaled the tow miles in the case because we did something we almost never do: we stayed … Continue reading
QTE Hop 3: Oklahoma City, OK, to Branson, MO
1 day, 300 miles via I-44, US 412 and US 65. This was a 1-day hop that compensated for the previous 3-day hop. Both I-44 from Oklahoma City to Tulsa and US 412 from Tulsa into Arkansas were very hilly – lots of up-and-downs, the result being very poor mileage. Most of the route was … Continue reading
The Cowboy Museum and Braum’s
We didn’t do much while we were in Oklahoma City, thanks to me working all day, every day. But there are two things about Oklahoma City that are worthy of note: Braum’s Ice Cream shops and the National Cowboy Museum. After our third straight day of travel, Jett was in no mood to cook dinner … Continue reading
QTE Hop 2: Williams, AZ, to Oklahoma City, OK
3 days, 905 miles via I-40 and I-44. I really wasn’t looking forward to this hop. Three long days on the road, almost all on I-40. There would be some scenery, but it would be dusty scenery and we were getting pretty fed up with wind and dust. We left Williams with a fine layer … Continue reading