Control-freak, planner signing up for unpredictability & surprises: Day Two

Oklahoma City to Santa Fe. Drove through Texas. Oklahoma felt desolate & abandoned. Texas seemed rather desolate, in a good way, and had some weird stuff. Granted, we only saw a very very small piece. We spent the morning driving to see an abandoned city, in reed oklahoma. It used to be booming & productive. It now is basically a ghost town. We were slightly unimpressed, since we had this idea there would be an abandoned school, post office, multiple homes, and stores. Maybe even a saloon with the doors creaking in the wind. As we continued down a lone road in oklahoma that led us into Texas, we did continue to see many abandoned places... Gas stations just empty. Homes that once looked beautiful, totally weathered & dilapidated.

.... We didn't want to turn around so we just figured out a way through...

Empty gas stations...

This poor runaway :(

Crossing the border fromOk to TX. Literally the only car for miles and miles. Only cows & an empty road. All of a sudden we come up to this sign... So we pulled over & took pics , went over and talked to the cows, and we were amazed at the absolute silence & the feeling that we were the only people around for miles and miles. We couldn't see or hear anyone else. And you can see a really long ways!!! It was incredible & hard to describe that feeling.

Texas has warm weather. Warm weather grows fruit, right? We saw a peach stand and got so excited & immediately pulled over. Alas, no peaches. It's winter. But it feels like summer!! We got peach jam instead. The ladies at the stand got a second laugh from us when if got in the car & loudly anounced "man it smells like farts in here" Jacey replied " I haven't even farted today!" The window was down. Peach-jam-making grandma heard it all and was laughing. It was funny. People fart. I love the someecard that says "farts are just turds honking to get out". Real life.

Texas has some weird stuff: