Oklahoma City Travel Blogs

  Oklahoma City - Goat Ropers Need Love, Too   There are hundreds of songs written about Oklahoma. However, HANDS DOWN, my all-time favorite tune is Jerry Jeff Walker’s version of Ray Wylie Hubbard’s classic, “Up Against The Wall, Redneck Mother.”   Up Against The…

Wednesday, July 15, 2009   We were up, ready, and on the road by 9 AM. That put us about a half hour behind. I wanted to be at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum when it first opened at nine. I was really looking forward to today. I had read a lot of good things about this museu…

Oklahoma is more than cowboys, native americans, covered wagons, football, and oil.  We have fast paced weather.  Everyone thinks of tornados.  But what people don't know is that Oklahoma has 2 seasons:  Wick Hot (the summer) and this other thing that is ever changing (the rest …

Maybe it's against the point of this site to blog about your hometown, but I don't care...So, I've lived in Oklahoma City since 1995. Coming here from Los Angeles was a big adjustment. I lost all my California friends in that move (which was pre-internet-becoming-mainstream) and had to start all ov…

Here are a few other pics from my evening adventures to Oklahoma City, OK.  I thought it best not to put them with the memorial, so here they are in all their randomness.  

My sister, Shari's birthday is June 22nd, so we took our families to the OKC Zoo on the 21st. It was a gorgeous morning, but let me tell you... the first day of summer is a ridiculous day to go to the zoo. It was so flaming hot that I threatened to go home. A lot. The OKC Zoo may be missing a …

Going down to OKC!!!!

Over a year ago, my friend started taking me out to eat, shop, and see a movie on Friday nights. I'm glad that we started making Bricktown the destination for our outtings. I work in a library, so I like to provide links if I can. Bricktown is named for the brick streets that have been restored i…

Apologies for the reference to a sappy JD love song, but this trip has had an incubation period of over six months and we are READY to hatch this adventure to the other side of the world!  With six suitcases, four carry-ons, and enough Benadryl to make 30 hours seem like 20 ;) we're on th…

20 bikes, 24 people, one fun weekend!! There were parties, a parade and plenty of fellowship. It's what riding a Harley is all about! Good weather on the way down, (but mercilessly hot- especially on a bike and the asphalt!) but still had a good time. Oklahoma City really loves bikers, and made sur…

After a very good breakfast this morning which included hot waffles, cereal, toast, fruit, and even breakfast burritos, at the hotel we got on the road for a long day. Our first stop was at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Plaza and Memorial. We didn’t actually stop to walk through the mem…

Yesterday, we had lunch at the Hooters in Amarillo, TX. The plan today was to drive to Oklahoma City and have lunch in Bricktown.  Not coincidently there is a Hooters in Bricktown, overlooking the canal. Isn't it amazing how these things seem to work out? But, we had a little hitch. On the dri…

We awoke to some spitting rain and heavy clouds.  Our spirits couldn't be dampened, however, and we ate a quick breakfast at our hotel before we hit the road.   Canon City, Colorado was 700 miles away and we had a long day ahead of us.  That would be nothing new; all of our road…

   Oklahoma City is one of my favorites. Bricktown, with its refurbished red-brick buildings, baseball park, and expanded canal system winding through the downtown shopping and nightlife area all enhance a small-town, nostalgic, rustic charm to a rapidly growing western metropolis. The …

Today is our 40th Wedding Anniversary.  How have the years flown by so quickly?  Why isn't my daughter still a little girl?  Actually, I like the age I am right now ... I'd like it even better if gravity hadn't gotten such a strong hold on my bod!!!  We spent much of the day v…