Mar. 20-25 Leaving Arkansas and passing through Oklahoma City, we encountered the heaviest snowfall of the winter – and it came, interestingly enough, on the last day of the winter. It was so thick that we thought it wise to pull over for the night in OKC, though we’d hoped to make it farther. There
Backroad Serendipities
Somewhere around Oklahoma City, we decided we’d once again had enough of I-40, and wanted to detour onto a backroad, namely Highway 9, to see some of the off-the-track color of Oklahoma and Arkansas. Heading into Arkansas, we passed Fort Chaffee, just a few miles south of Fort Smith. Unlike the latter, which is a
The Flatland Freeway
We’ve made the trip across the continent on Interstate 40 more times than we could count. Some parts of the stretch are rather interesting -it goes through mountains in some places, and it parallels the “historic Route 66″, which in some locations really is historic. But there is a segment of the route, between Oklahoma
