Georgia and The Carolinas are home to The Blue Ridge Parkway that winds through The Smoky Mountains.Mississippi means you can travel along the Natchez Trace Parkway and just take it easy.Tennessee gives us Memphis and Nashville a musical overload as well as The Jack Daniels Distillery.Arkansas offers up the Pig Trail and a chance to ride through The Ozarks.Oklahoma will deliver Route 66 and iconic picture opportunities.To Texas and the wide open spaces and the biggest steak known to man.New Mexico and the Rio Grande and the Cimarron Canyon State Park.Colorado and the Million Dollar Highway and San Juan Skyway.The scenic overload that was Utah, Zion and Bryce National Parks, Monument Valley and the Moki Dugway.The extremes of Death Valley and LAs Vegas in Nevada.Riding up the Pacific Coast Highway and then visiting Yosemite Park in California.Across 13 US States ticking off bucket list entries along the way. ![]() This is a 20 day trip that was 2 Years in the planning. Oklahoma City and Tulsa serve as Oklahoma's primary economic anchors, with nearly two-thirds of Oklahomans living within their metropolitan statistical areas. ![]() Today twenty-five Native American languages are still spoken in Oklahoma.A major producer of natural gas, oil, and agricultural products, Oklahoma relies on an economic base of aviation, energy, telecommunications, and biotechnology. Historically it served as a government-sanctioned territory for Native Americans removed from east of the Mississippi River, a route for cattle drives from Texas and related regions, and a destination for Southern migrant settlers. Oklahoma is at a confluence of three major American cultural regions. Interior Highlands, all regions prone to severe weather. With ancient mountain ranges, prairie, mesas, and eastern forests, most of Oklahoma lies in the Great Plains, Cross Timbers, and the U.S. Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory were merged into the State of Oklahoma when it became the 46th state to enter the union on November 16, 1907. The state's name is derived from the Choctaw words okla, "people" and humma, which translates as "red" Oklahoma is also known informally by its nickname, "The Sooner State", in reference to the colonizers who staked their claims on land before the official opening date of lands in the western Oklahoma Territory or before the Indian Appropriations Act of 1889, which increased European-American settlement in the eastern Indian Territory. Its residents are known as Oklahomans (or colloquially "Okies"), and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City. Partially in the western extreme of the Upland South, it is the 20th-most extensive and the 28th-most populous of the 50 United States. Oklahoma is a state in the South Central and Southern Plains region of the United States, bordered by the state of Texas on the south and west, Kansas on the north, Missouri on the northeast, Arkansas on the east, New Mexico on the west, and Colorado on the northwest. Stopping at the Boot Hill Museum we can now feel we are in the Wild West where you can immerse yourself in all things cowboy before stopping for the night.ģ Star day turned into a 4 Star day once we became cowboys in Dodge City Passing the Kansas Veterans Cemetery at Fort Dodge (WP33) you eventually arrive in Dodge City, road names like Wyatt Earp Boulevard and Commanche Road remind us of growing up watching Cowboys and Indian films. Turning north in Alva you soon cross the State line leaving Oklahoma and enter Kansas, continuing north passing through small towns along the way until heading west on US Highway 54/400 until one final change of direction towards Dodge City. Heading north to Pawhuska on the 99 the gently undulating road winds it’s way through very green scenery until you join the Osage Nation Heritage Trail and head towards Ponca City, passing over the Kaw Dam along the way (WP18). ![]() But Oklahoma has more man-made lakes than any other state, with over one million surface acres of water. Not really the natural domain of the motorcyclist but the history is all around that how can you not enjoy the area.Ĭrossing the Skiatook reservoir, it is in contrast with the wild open countryside around. It is huge! Large areas of open space with unbroken skies.Īnd things are direct, many of the roads and tracks, even out on the country away from the cities are straight, dead straight. Staying off the main Express Way and Turnpike we follow the roads away from the downtown area.Ī few things that become apparent very quickly as you are travelling in Oklahoma. Heading away from the city after visiting the “Center of the Universe” (WP2) test your voice with the strange acoustics surrounding the brick circle. Starting point today is Tulsa, Oklahoma the second largest city in the state. Day 6 of 14 on a cross country adventure across America
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