Our apologies for not updating for a few days, although the
Casino was a great place to stay with a spectacular view they wanted to charge
us $13/day for WIFI which we felt was a bit much given it has been free every where else and just so we could update the
blog.
Anyway, a big day today, we left Oklahoma City at around 9am
and reached Bossier City, Louisiana, about 5:30pm, didn’t stop much except for fuel and
to stretch our legs a couple of times. We are determined to stay of the Interstates as
much as possible and it was an interesting drive, much of the countryside
looking a little like central Victoria, treed and undulating, although still
big. Our journey took us through Shawnee, Holdenville, Atoka,
Durant, Sulphur Springs and Gilmer.
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| Street furniture in Durant |
Had a couple of exciting moments with some rather large
birds (looked like Eagles but how would we know {joke for Lyn and Tristan}).
They were very reluctant to leave there road kill, the first took off and flew
in front of us for what seemed like forever but was probably only a few
seconds, the second pair just sauntered slowly off the road. Then later on an
inquisitive locust tried to invite himself into the car for a ride.
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| Large bird didn't want to leave his dinner (sorry about the photo quality, cut it out of our video) |
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| Locust looking for a free ride |
After this I glanced in the mirror and found a State
Trooper, lights flashing etc had miraculously appeared, I slowed and pulled
over as much as I could (almost no verge) and he whistled past, the speed limit
was 70mph by the way on a single lane undivided road with houses on both sides
of the road. What is really noticeable is that there are no front fences and limited side fences to keep the pets or children inside the property.
The speed
limits generally have been very generous unlike Victorian authorities who
are well and truly on the side of caution (that why we are called the Nana state). In fact, apart from usually
travelling one or two mph over the limit to avoid being a hazard, we are
regularly overtaken by trucks and quite a few State Troopers, sheriffs and local police, who showed no interest
at all at our 73 when the limit is 70 mph.
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| Arriing in Louisianna |
Staying at the Horseshoe Casino on the 24
th floor, we have a brilliant view of the Red River which passes between Bossier City
and Shreveport.
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| View from our room window |
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| Dales query......" Which way, dear??" |
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