We made it up to Des Moines only to see the city in a thick coat of ice. There are icicles hanging off of everything. These people have really suffered a hard winter based on what we saw in the Walmart parking lot. There are huge piles of snow everywhere. Poor Rocky is suffering the most because all the trees are either buried in the snow piles or covered in ice. He is so spoiled that we got up this morning and I watched while Jorge got out the shovel and chipped away at the ice around one tree to clear a spot for the baby to do his business. He now has a three foot diameter circle around one tree but we can’t move because it’s the only one in town.
We started out yesterday from Oklahoma City in the sunshine so we chose the scenic route for the first half of the trip. We drove down a part of the old Route 66 north of Oklahoma City. It was very pretty but I sure could never live anywhere with that red dirt on everything. We came across the little town of Arcadia which we learned was famous for their big, old, red, round barn. It’s an Oklahoma landmark that’s over 100 years old and was built round with the thinking that it would better survive the Oklahoma tornados. Obviously they were right. We stopped to take this picture of it.
We started out yesterday from Oklahoma City in the sunshine so we chose the scenic route for the first half of the trip. We drove down a part of the old Route 66 north of Oklahoma City. It was very pretty but I sure could never live anywhere with that red dirt on everything. We came across the little town of Arcadia which we learned was famous for their big, old, red, round barn. It’s an Oklahoma landmark that’s over 100 years old and was built round with the thinking that it would better survive the Oklahoma tornados. Obviously they were right. We stopped to take this picture of it.