Oklahoma

April 2018

My heart is breaking right now for my beloved hometown, Thousand Oaks, CA. Larry and I left family and friends in T.O. 3 years ago to wander the country but it will ALWAYS be home!

We pray for the victims of the Borderline shooting and for all affected by the devastating fires. Thousand Oaks is a strong, loving, caring community and the stories of how they are helping each other now warms my heart.

#T.O STRONG! #T.O.GETHER!

Since writing is how I cope with things I’m going to write about our time in Oklahoma. 

 We stayed for a few days in OKC. It snowed! In early April! That was new for us! 

 The RV park had lots of cats. They seemed to enjoy walking past our window and sending the dogs into a hissy fit!

I think they’d lost their voices at this point and just sat there and stared at them. 

Larry’s Uncle Pete and Aunt Susan, From Norman, OK took us out to dinner. It was really great getting to know them better. I guess the conversation was so good I forgot about taking pictures.

But it was a wonderful dinner!

After a few days in OKC we traveled to a Coast to Coast Park in Checotah, Ok

Larry is always a bit nervous when we go to Oklahoma because of the threat of tornados

so he was relieved to see a storm shelter... right outside our back window!

The park was on a lovely lake so we took leisurely walks every day!

No storms just quite walks.

 

I thought these were cute!

 

I had some time to kill in Checotah so I decided to try my hand at homemade tortillas.

It was harder than I thought it would be but here's my first attempt. They weren't pretty but they were tasty!

Albuquerque (part two)

March 2018

I guess I better finish part two of my Albuquerque post.

We did a few things with our friends Jim & Marsha that we hadn’t done before. 

We were in Albuquerque in Oct. 2017 during the balloon festival. We were excited about seeing all the awesome balloons but discovered the RV Park we were at was too far away to see anything and were advised that we wouldn’t be able to park our truck anywhere near the balloon area unless we had advanced tickets.

We didn’t! The next best thing was the Balloon Museum!

It was pretty awesome.

 

 After the museum we went to a place where Jim and Marsha said they had seen really awesome bronze statues.

 

We love Albuquerque! If you've never been there you should go!

Albuquerque (part one)

March 2018

We met up with our good friends, Jim & Marsha in Albuquerque, NM. The last time we were here we took the Sandia Tramway and loved it so we knew we wanted to do it again with them.

Sharing it with friends made it even more awesome!

 It's cold and windy up there!

We had also been to the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History and thought they might enjoy it so we went again. It’s a fascinating place. And it’s always nice to share experiences with friends.

We also went to a few new places we'd never been to before. One in particular was a little back ally restaurant in Old Town, where I had THE BEST Chili Relleno Burrito I've ever had! It was actually the first time I'd ever had one but it's now my favorite Mexican food! I think the place was called Sophia's. The chef told me she was from, I believe it was Chihuahua, an area known for Chili Relleno Burritos. Since we had dinner plans for later we were only looking for a small snack. Didn't want to spend a lot for a big, fancy sit down meal. I saw a sign for $2.00 tacos so we went in.

Super cute place with really nice staff.

 We went to a few more new places that I'll feature in my next post!