California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oaklahoma

I drove all the way to Lawton, Oaklahoma and back this summer. It's a little over 1,500 miles. I learned a lot of things by taking this drive. First of all, Arizona has a forest near Flagstaff, and it's beautiful. I live in California, and I never knew this
before. On the first day of driving I got out of the car in Lake Havasu; it was about 110 ten degrees there, thought my brain was going to fry. I was going to make it to Gallup, New Mexico on that first day and I hit the Flagstaff insect rain, comes down on your windshield so thick you can't see. Tell me all you Flagstaff people, how do you drive at night with all those little bugs falling in the summer? My son and I stopped there for the night. The motel had an indoor swimming pool, not used to those in California.

The next day I made it to Albuquerque, New Mexico. For some reason I thought I was closer to Lawton than I was. It was 1:00
p.m. and everyone I asked about how many more hours to Oaklahoma just sort of laughed at me and said about ten. I met an attorney and his wife in a restaurant there and he said I should go up to Oaklahoma City and drop down to Lawton. I called my son's wife and asked her. "Nope, stay the course ,"she said. Other wise, I was would be looking at another hour and a half of driving. What's up with all the dairy queens from Arizona to Oaklahoma? I pulled into a place in Texas and it reminded me of that movie Friday Night Lights. The town was so small ,but they had a huge football stadium.
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