Road Trip Back to Missouri
/I’m becoming more familiar with the route between my parents’ home in Texas and my home in Missouri. This time I remembered that there was only one non-commercial highway rest stop along my route – the welcome center between Oklahoma and Texas. I was early enough that the main part of the building was not open yet but there were external doors directly to rest rooms that were unlocked (unlike the configuration of the welcome center from Missouri to Oklahoma). What a relief! There were no plants blooming in the heat of summer but the beds near the porch of the building were lush with foliage. The external walls of the building could be used for a geology lesson for that area of Oklahoma!
All the other stops were commercial – either toll road service centers or MacDonalds. I noticed that the MacDonalds’ décor incorporated a lot of familiar (Zentangle-like) patterns!
I was traveling on a Sunday so there were no active construction sites and traffic was light. No accidents slowed me down! I made it home in about 45 minutes less time than my nav system predicted when I first started. My Prius Prime got me all the way home on a full charge and 7/8 tank of gas!
Lesson learned: The Will Rogers Service Center along the toll road always seems crowded and not very clean…next time I’ll pass it by and stop at the Missouri Welcome Center that is not very much further!
