8/18/2005: Truckin' in Amarillo [updated: in Oklahoma City]

[BigV]

I wonder....

I imagine she's making good on her threat to leave ("and I'm takin' my STUFF TOO!"). They look like they've been driving a while. Her left shoulder is sunburned. I can't make out the plate, but it doesn't look like Texas. Maybe Florida or Georgia. She's seen some setbacks (bunged up fender, car broken into through left rear quarter window), but she's doing something about it. The optimism and determination displayed here is admirable.

Good Luck to you. I hope everything turns out better.

[Perry Winkle]

Originally Posted by BigV

can't make out the plate, but it doesn't look like Texas. Maybe Florida or Georgia.

I think the assumption is that the Amarillo -> road sign is refferring to Amarillo Texas thus either in Texas or somewhere east of north Texas. So probably either Oklahoma or Texas as far as I can guess.

[Hobbs]

Originally Posted by grant

I think the assumption is that the Amarillo -> road sign is refferring to Amarillo Texas thus either in Texas or somewhere east of north Texas. So probably either Oklahoma or Texas as far as I can guess.

Oooo, good catch. Oklahoma it is.

[Hobbs]

OK, How flippin bazaar is this? I found these pics on http://www.okroads.com/dandm/i44ok.html. What are the odds of me typing in Exit 120A and coming across these? I love the internet!!!

Interstate 44 East approaching Exits 120A-B -
Interstate 40 - 1/4 mile. The interstate lies just
past the North Canadian River, which Interstate
44 is about to cross here.

[Neurotica]

Originally Posted by Hobbs

OK, How flippin bazaar is this? I found these pics on http://www.okroads.com/dandm/i44ok.html. What are the odds of me typing in Exit 120A and coming across these? I love the internet!!!

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Why must my internet be so slow? You beat me on both the tag confirmation and the road/exit confirmation. *kicks dialup connection*

[Neurotica]

Originally Posted by grant

I think the assumption is that the Amarillo -> road sign is refferring to Amarillo Texas thus either in Texas or somewhere east of north Texas. So probably either Oklahoma or Texas as far as I can guess.

I'm with you. I'd bet money that that's an Oklahoma plate. (Can't you see me swelling with pride over the actions of my fellow Oklahomans?) Here's a very blurry example of an older Oklahoma plate, before the state seal(?) was added to the middle. I didn't bother to blur the numbers because it's from a bunch of junk that someone dumped on our property.


Anyway, plates don't mean much, of course. But the fact that Exit 120A on Hwy 40 to Amarillo is in Oklahoma does. Oh, great. I just confirmed that I share a state with these people.

[Neurotica]

Originally Posted by BigV

They look like they've been driving a while. Her left shoulder is sunburned.

Actually, a lot of people in Oklahoma look like that all the time. Sunscreen is frowned upon (or so you'd think), and Overtanning Syndrome is rampant here. People with the wrong skin tone to get that bronzed look just end up looking red and freckled all the time.

It makes perfect sense. Your skin can look ugly and sunburned all the time, and later you can get skin cancer. It's win-win!