We left Ponca City this morning continuing our trip back home. We could have spent a lot more time here. Marilyn made us feel so welcome that we wished we had more time.
The Oklahoma panhandle was also known as "no man's land". When the Texas Republic sought to join the US, it was forced to give up it's land North of the 36°30' parallel as the Missouri Compromise prohibited slavery north of that parallel. The area was declared public land but because it had not been survey, it could not be legally settled. It remains sparsely populated today with less than 8,000 families as of the last census.
After a day's drive of about 275 miles and 8 hours, we arrived in Guymon near the west end of no-man's-land. A city park there offered free overnight parking for RV's. We found the park offered a visitor's center and a dump station. It was after 5pm and the visitor's center was closed.
We parked in a side parking lot as there was a big rig parked in front. An Oklahoma State Patrol office was located directly across the street from our location. We explored the town and stopped to shop at a Walmart, where else? We had a good, quite nights sleep.Mean While Back in North Carolina
I got kinda behind in NC partly because we were so busy and partly because I took so many pictures but mostly because I might have gotten a little lazy. Anyway I am going to try to post some picture of our visit there at the bottom of each post.
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