Tulsa!

Yesterday, we woke late (7 AM) to breakfast and Moni ready to ride! Scrambling around trying to gather our stuff, we finally headed down the road to Tulsa. With Moni leading the way, we hit up Walmart for supplies then rode down Route 66 for the last time this trip. Reaching a town called Arcadia, we came up on a convenience store like we've never seen. Known as Pops, this place has over 500 different sodas to choose from, including a full restaurant and some outlandish architecture. This is where we parted ways with Moni who headed back home. Hope she enjoyed the tailwind!

This stretch of 66 was extremely hilly all the way out and with storms coming the next day, the headwind picked up all day (nothing new there). The up and down pace started to take a toll on our legs so we took plenty of rest stops, one at this in-and-out subway. The people in this state are really friendly. Here we met a girl named Emily who talked with us for almost an hour about the area and wondered about our ride, I think she was on duty the whole time. Hope she makes it to Tulsa, a personal tour guide would be fun!

From here we passed through little town after little town, people waving and smiling at us the whole way. It was like a redneck Pleasantville. Evan and I finally found a buffalo in Chandler and we also ran into the diner that was used as a model in the movie "Cars". This place was an old diner brought back from the grave. Had the best hot dog I've had since the Sabrett hot dog stand outside Home Depo. After ending more and more conversations short about our trip with the restauant patrons, we continued on.

Just outside Sapulpa in Bristow, we hit up happy hour at Sonic for some cherry limaids and decided that we probably we're going to make it much further so we found a camp site at Heyburn Lake. Cresting the fourth steep hill off of Route 66, we rolled into the town of Toothless, apparently. The air smelled like Bud Heavy and mint Skoal and each site had it's fair share of Jerry Springer hopefuls squeezed into bathing suits you could only guess were spray on. They didn't have shower so we fit right in using our water bottles to clean off and paracord to string up our clothes. Just as we set up for dinner, Evan got a call from Heather saying they were en route to get us! Like a fire drill, we tore down camp faster than ever and threw our gear in her car soon after.

Heather, and her husband Jordan, made us dinner and took us over to where we'd be staying for a couple days. These four guys, Jered, Will, Kevin and Anthony all live in this cool house in the middle of Tulsa and gave us a full room to use while we're here. After tearing through two sakes of McDonalds burgers and a couple episodes of Band of Brothers, we got some good rest. Good thing we were indoors this morning because around 8 AM it rained and hailed for two hours, wouldn't have been fun on a bike. Tulsa will be some good rest and we're ready to see the city when it finally stops raining. Below is our buffalo and the Cars diner.