River in SE Oklahoma

We drove from Louisiana to Texarkana, Arkansas. It seems like half the highways in Louisiana are causeways, they seem to go on forever. From there we drove across Oklahoma to Enid which is north of Oklahoma City. The scenery hasn't been too inspiring, but the parts of Arkansas we went through were pretty with the leaves changing color. 

Alabaster Caverns 

Alabaster Caverns

Today we left Enid and drove to Alabaster Caverns which is in the northwest corner of Oklahoma. The caves were quite interesting, They are not limestone but gypsum. This makes for some beautiful crystal formations but no stalactites. There were also lots of bats in the cave which was pretty interesting. After that we headed north into Kansas, entering the state in the town of Liberal, a great name for a town in the red state of Kansas. From there we went north and west into Colorado crossing our outbound path. We are holed up in La Junta which is jut south of Pueblo. The weather has been great, the temperature today got up to 87 degrees. All good things must end, the weather report says it may snow tomorrow (Saturday).

Liberal, Kansas

We've been putting lots of miles on these last days, I guess we are starting to smell the barn. I hope to get to around Ogden Utah tomorrow, but it will depend on the weather and the calluses on my butt.