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Road Trip!

7/9/2018

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Week 28 of the #52 Ancestors Challenge - "Travel"

​It was the summer of 1977, and I had just completed 2nd grade. The family home was sold and we had moved the next town over, to stay with my grandparents while the new house was being built. But, before that was all started - ROAD TRIP! 
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We were off on an 1800-mile trek to visit my aunt, uncle, and cousins out in Lone Grove, Oklahoma, my first time traveling outside of New England.
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I wish I had scanned a photo of the pick-up truck we took on the road​, which thankfully had a cap attached, or that would have been one windy trip!

I do recall writing "Oklahoma or Bust" on the back side of a torn out page from a coloring book and attaching it to the back window - I must have got that from my days of watching too many westerns.

I do have a picture of my sis and I, labeled "rest stop in Ohio". 

​"Are we there yet?"
While in Oklahoma, we visited nearby Lake Murray State Park, taking my cousin's boat over to Tucker Tower for a cool view of the man-made body of water from the top of the structure. My uncle, who had a cattle farm, also had numerous concrete containers on his property which held bait, sold to local fishermen heading here to the lake. 
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Our families also took a drive down into Texas, where we spent the day at Six Flags amusement park in Arlington.
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This oversized chair to still there, with a different back drop
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labeled "the sheriff at Boomtown"
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View from the "oil derrick"
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The amphitheatre and Johnson Creek
Here are some pictures from the farm. Due to an attempt at correcting my "lazy eye", I was stuck with wearing an eye patch that summer. When my uncle took us over to Ardmore to go shopping at this department store called Wal-Mart, I picked up a Planet of the Apes mask. That should hide this embarrassing patch!  
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​I also got a new bike for my birthday while out there, which made things a bit tighter in the back of the pick-up on the ride home!
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