This year Oklahoma was the center of a whirlwind week staying in Shreveport, Louisanna, Abilene, Lubbock, and Amarillo in Texas, Elk City and Oklahoma City in Oklahoma, Wichita, Kansas, and finally Independence, Missouri on successive nights.
We did get to the Route 66 Museum in Elk City and then stopped half way from there to Oklahoma City at the Cherokee Trading Post tourist trap which had this wonderful mural. This is definitely the best panorama stitched from multiple photographs I have managed to achieve. Using Hugin Panorama photo stitcher and cleaning up the sky with Photoshop makes a nice picture here but I would not put it on a large banner.
Out here where the bison roamed in their thousands they had these nice sculptures and several real bison smart enough to be resting in the shade. I keep promising we will be back exploring the real Indian heritage in Oklahoma, but at this point we were headed for some real serious exploration of the Kansas City Fountains.
Our first visit to Oklahoma in 2007 was primarily a quick pass trying a different route back to Columbus, Ohio rather than I-30/I-40 we had always used through Arkansas. We skirted Tulsa and spent two nights at the Twin Bridges State Park in the far northeastern corner of the state, but I cannot find any pictures I took on this visit. We have spent considerable time in Oklahoma in later years and again I promise plenty of photographs.