Leaving Durant this morning, we were both glad the wind had stopped blowing so bad.
We are carrying only 5200 lbs of returned small appliances from Wal-Mart to Ozark Technologies in Springdale, AR and the wind was playing havoc with the truck last night. The truck stop started filling up quickly as the wind got stronger!
The Choctaw Nation is in total control here... there is an old casino behind us, the new one is beside us, and the store at the truck stop has a full blown casino room.
Traveling through Oklahoma is interesting. You find yourself on flat land, no trees or anything and then all of a sudden you're in the Ozark's. Parts of which are absolutely beautiful.
Look... Obama's car... it seemingly drives on water...
We're talking and driving along and we notice this huge plume of smoke ahead of us... grass fire? some kind of natural disaster getting ready to happen? tornado (no... it's not storming), so for miles we keep looking at this and trying to guess what it is...
Turned out all this smoke was coming from this.... smoke stacks.... in the middle of nowhere...
Made for good conversation for a few miles....
A quick stop at Wal-Mart proved we can handle being on a budget (remember $100 a week for groceries) and we spent $92.29!! Oklahoma, to my surprise, has a 9.147 % sales tax!! I almost fell over!
Our day was suppose to end at the Pilot on Hwy 412, off of I-540 in AR; however, it's the only truck stop for miles around and it was PACKED!!
We choose to drive on down the street a mile and stay in the customer's parking lot (the place we'll be delivering Monday morning.) We'll be in Springdale until at least Monday.
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