OKLAHOMA

I have traveled into Oklahoma and the geography changes very quickly from the mountains of Arkansas. Oklahoma is a ranchers paradise, with rolling hills and sunny skies. The tough part of Oklahoma is the way the roads are set up, let me explain. In Oklahoma every mile there is a intersection crossing two roads. A grid system of roads covers the whole state and you can go almost anywhere. The issue I ran into is that if I make a wrong turn, I would not know it, since my directions say turn 3 miles. Sure there is a turn, but it is not the correct one. You could go a whole afternoon off of one wrong turn and have to spend the next day looking at the map to figure out what you did wrong. Sam's maps are 100% accurate, the reader may not always be as I learned this morning, getting lost 3 times. The 100 heat can do that, turns your mind to mush and leaning the bike up against a tree and resting in the shade helps clear your head.

I was fortunate to meet a couple of people along my trip I want to take a moment to thank, Mark Tucker and Cecil Milhon. Thank you!

Cecil Milhon of Milhon's Honda in Liberal, Kansas was a huge help in getting the bike tuned for the rest of the trip. I pulled in to ask about why I was getting a variety of readings on my oil dipstick. He found that I was a quart low on oil and offered to change it for free. He also was very kind to let me work in the shop of the dealership after-hours to put new tires on. THANKS A MILLION CECIL!!! stop in and say hello if you are doing the last night stay over in the Oklahoma route along the border..