Route 66: Western Oklahoma
If you ever plan to motor west, Travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks on route sixty-six. Alrighty then, let's go get our kicks. But since we've only got a few days, it will have to be just a [...]
In transit: Americana
Rick's Fine Chocolates and Coffees, 26 October 2019 Not exactly my commute - Guthrie, OK edition Working in a chocolaterie in small town America today. Strangely mindboggling. More so than it would be on a Thai beach. Or a sidewalk cafe in Almaty. This isn’t [...]
A Day Like Any Other Day
It's a chilly winter day and I'm in the state where the wind comes sweeping down the plain. The Sooner state, the Boomer Paradise, the core of Tornado Alley, the only state with an active oil rig next to the state capitol building. Lately, also [...]
World at a Glance: Digging for crystals in Jet
Thick layers of salt help form a rare and unusual type of selenite crystals, found nowhere else in the world but here on the Great Salt Plains in Oklahoma. You can dig for crystals between April and October.
