Here's a fun fact. Did you know Oklahoma has (near) recreational marijuana? "Oklahoma leads the nation in per-capita dispensaries in medical marijuana states."
Filling up at a gas station outside of Amarillo, TX I get a text from the booking website. I'm sure it is confirming our room at the Extended Stay America (XSA) on the outskirts of Oklahoma City. It was not.
It was a cancellation notice. #Canceled
Yup, hotels overbook their rooms to avoid having vacancies. I've worked at a hotel front desk and this is generally what people would call up to yell at me about. Now, here I am the yeller! Ok, I didn't yell. I didn't even talk to a human. I listened to the outgoing voice recording.
The Extended Stay America is for people who cannot live at home for a while.
If you get in a fight with your sweetie and she shows you the door, you can stay at an Extended Stay America. Or if you are the regional manager of a Burger King and your region is FUBAR. The corporate office might send you to the Oklahoma City Extended Stay America to fix things. Either way, the XSA is a punishment place for looonnnggg term lodging. We were only booked a night so our reservation, kaput.
Bummer, because I looked forward to cooking / eating a meal not in sandwich form. No worries, that's what a strong cell signal is for.
Before we hit up OK, we had to check out the Cadillac Ranch.
A super cool art installation right along the route from OKC to Santa Fe. You don't even have to take an exit. Just pull over!
Like all good art installations their were loads of "influencers" there.
Trying to dodge other people's photo shoots to do you own photo shoot is a challenge. But being a model is hard sometimes.
There are cans of spray paint lying around to have fun defacing the art with.
Like snagging a middle-aged man, you have to shake a few cans real hard before you find one that can still spray! Hey-yo!
We ended up stying in OKC's adorable Bricktown neighborhood. And y'all know I LOVE BRICKS! The AC Marriott was very comfortable but none of the attractions of Bricktown were open.
Bar districts aren't open on Mondays especially during a global pandemic. There's a labor shortage people!!!
Tired and hungry we drove our happy-asses all across the city to hunt down a WHATABURGER and a liquor store. Yet another meal on a bun but what a bun, hun. As a former Texas / New Mexico resident, I've never been so happy to wait 45 mins in line for sandwich. ~Swoon~
There are billboards everywhere for 99 cent pre-rolled doobies.
Also, the speed limit on the Highway is 80MPH. This is complete conjecture but everyone is so high all the time. Between the red dust and the white knuckle speed, driving though OKC is like staring in Mad Max Thunder Road. Shave my head an call be fucking terrified. We're headed to Santa Fe.
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