June 19
Hey there Campers;
We started off with an overcast day as we left Kingfisher, OK and headed to Hartshorne, OK where Lo's dad, Monroe Brandy, Sr. lives. We put on Lo's iPod since he has lots of music. Can you imagine blues, R&B, jazz & comedy all in the same hour? We started listening to B.B. King, then Smokey Robinson then Jeff Foxworthy talking about his kin. Ok, maybe we should take it off random play. We drive to McAlester, OK which is the biggest city before dads house. We get on the Indian Pike Turnpike Toll road. What the heck is with the tolls? None of them have the same charge, and you have to have the exact cash. That means most of them will not take any dollars bills. I kid you not. Sometimes we pay $.60, $1.15, $2.60, $4.00. So we now keep a Ziploc bag of change.
We finally arrived in dad's town. Town really is 3 blocks, 3 gas stations, 1 stop light and 8 churches and a Sonic. If ya'll don't know about Sonic you have not been to the South. Think A&W drive inn burger back in the day.
Lo decided it would be easier turning the Hilton on a street 1 block pass dads house. Unfortunately he missed that street as we could not determine if the street really was a street. You know small towns. So we went down one more. (The Hilton doesn't stop or turn around easily.) Boy, this was a challenge. Low branches an a narrow street. So we crept down the street as branches scraped the Hilton's top. When we cleared this the road we were suppose to turn on was scary. It was made out of two old boards layed across a ditch!! We looked at this and I said H..to the L NO!!! We are way to heavy for this. Imagine getting stuck and having to call a tow truck. NOT!! So we went down another street.
As we were
leaving town we decided to stop at the Sonic to get a snack. So I walked up to
the car hop door to give my order since we had no car to put in the order
stall. The car hop looked at me strangely and said "just go to the stall
and put in your order". All in a southern twang. So there I stand in a
stall, order and wait for the order. Several cars try to pull in the stall.
They looked at me crazily as to why was I there. The car hop brings my order
and I asked her how do people usually walk up put in a order. She said "you
can go through the drive thru" I told her we had a motorhome and that
would not work. She looked at the
motorhome and look at me and stated " you can go through the drive
thru". Ya got to love teenagers.
She did not have a clue that the motorhome is as big as the Sonic.
We continue
on down the road and stopped at our hotel Walmart in Cocatah, OK.
Until the
next time Camper...
Lo & Bren
Question of the Day
What year and what town did Sonic Drive In start
Tanita - shall I wait for yah? Nah - The year was 1953 in the town of Shawnee, OK but it was called Top Hat. The founder changed the name to Sonic in 1959 and the first place to accept the name was in Stillwater, OK.
ReplyDeleteLouise, it's good to see you are still getting your steps in. :)
ReplyDeleteWhat is with you two speed demons???
ReplyDelete(:p) <======= to Rita
ReplyDeleteI can't even tell you how it cracks me up that your father in law drives AROUND TOWN on a riding mower. With a gun in his pocket.
Some people you couldn't even write books about, because no one would believe them.
Also, that road looked like a badly paved driveway!