When you are on a cruise and the ship is at sea with no stops at a port, the itinerary simply states, "at sea". Today was one of those days, at sea.
We left Russelville under cloudy skies, occasional showers and a cool but muggy 80°. Seems funny referring to 80°F. as cool. As we crossed the state line into Oklahoma, we seemed to be coming out onto open plains again from the rolling farming country of Arkansas. Along the way, we saw some wind farms with the wind-mills lined up for a mile or more along the high ridges.
By Muskogee, OK, the sun was coming out again. We had to photograph the "Muskogee" highway sign because Diane loves the song about, "I’m Just An Okie from Muskogee". We also passed signs at Chicotah, OK and Henrietta, OK claiming home township of Carrie Underwood and Troy Aikenhead respectively. We also crossed the Canadian River and North Canadian rivers, which have absolutely no relationship to Canada.. (I just thought I would throw that in as an interesting tidbit.)
At around 5 PM, we crossed the state line into the great state of Texas. By this time the landscape was very flat prairie, not unlike Saskatchewan. Eventually, we pulled into Amarillo where it seemed the big trucks were lined up for miles trying to get into the local truck stops for the night. We hadn’t seen that many transports in one place ever before. Quite a sight!
We pulled up at the Amarillo Airport Plaza Hotel around 7 Pm or so. It wasn’t an expensive place, but must have been very ritzy in it’s day. The lobby was roomy and well decorated, though somewhat faded. Behind the lobby we walked through a large atrium, high ceilinged and with many plants, a nice swimming pool and some quite large and expensive looking chandeliers. Beside that atrium was a large and well appointed night club and casino. For such a place of somewhat faded glory there were seemingly few guests, although the aforementioned bar and casino were very busy
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