Museums and hikes

Hi All,
Thursday we toured two museums in Oklahoma City, the Osteology Museum and the Oklahoma City Memorial Museum.

The Osteology Museum was pretty neat, if you like skeletons. Skeletons of all kinds of mammals and other animals. I think Susan could have spent the whole day in there. It was really quite fascinating.

The Oklahoma City Memorial Museum was excellent. It is laid out in a timeline that led up to April 19, 1995- what happened that day and then what happened in the aftermath. There was a meeting at the Water Resources Board, across the street from the federal building, that started promptly at 9 AM. The meeting was recorded. You listen to the recording and hear as the meeting starts. Two minutes into it, you hear a huge explosion and then chaos. It's hard not to relive the day with all the news reports coming out of Oklahoma City. The museum is very well done and I highly recommend anyone that finds themselves in OKC take the time to go see it.

Friday was a travel day. We headed west from Stratford and crossed back into the Texas panhandle, That night we stopped in an RV park on the eastern edge of Amarillo.

Today (Saturday) we did a 5.5 mile hike in Palo Duro Canyon State Park. Palo Duro Canyon is the second largest canyon in the US. It is quite impressive. Gorgeous is a more accurate description.

After our hike we stopped at the Texas Air and Space Museum at the Amarillo Airport. There was some pretty neat stuff there and our volunteer guide was very knowledgeable. After our hike and the two hours we spent at the museum, we were done. Sunset tonight will be followed very quickly with sleep.

Take care.
Brian