Quiet Saturday
Today was a no travel day in Oklahoma City. The day started with a breakfast and a presentation on the next couple of days travel by Michael Wallis and his wife, the Route 66 historians.

Memorial Chairs

Gate

Since I was already downtown, I went to the Oklahoma City  National Memorial & Museum. The memorial is on the footprint of the former  Murrah Federal Building. It is a grass area with 168 chairs that represent the victims. It hits you when you see the row of chairs that

mementos left on fence since the bombing 15 years ago

represent those that were on the second floor and realize that many of them are children's chairs, representing the children killed in the day care. There is a reflecting pool in front of the monument and large fixed walls that frame each end of what used to be the block that the building was on. The museum is housed in one of the adjacent buildings that was damaged byt not destroyed by the blast. It is impressive to see the wall that faced the Murrah building and the damage to the bricks and the twisted fire escapes.  I mentioned last night how moving it was after dark. In the daylight and after touring the adjoining museum, I don't have words to describe the impact of this site. So I won't try.

After a visit to the harley dealer to ship some stuff home (I brought too much and have bought some) a couple of us went to the State Fair. That was fun. We looked at all of the displays of old farm equipment. watched a number of the youth animal competitions and just generally walked along. It was really hot (93+) though so we did not stay as long as we otherwise might have. We also decided not to to go to the Marshall Tucker concert tonight because of the heat and that we have a long 300 mile ride tomorrow, so I did my laundry, exciting, HUH?
See you tomorrow night in Amarillo Texas!