St Louis to Wichita Falls Texas

Our journey is unfolding as it should as we continue south-westward. We left shortly before 8:30 and only stopped for gas and lunch. We made good time through Oklahoma to rising temperatures under fairly sunny skies and that's about it. The rolling hills of this morning gave way to much flatter lands during the afternoon, oak forests and walnut trees gave way to oil derricks. As usual, there were lots of hawks patrolling the highway but the unexpected was to see a roadrunner twice during the afternoon. I didn't expect to see roadrunners where there are patches of snow, but I'm always glad to see them.

The weather warmed up a fair bit, to a high of 10C! It was interesting to note that as we went further south, we went through fairly dry fields with very large snow drifts from what was probably a recent significant snow storm. The highway edges often had running water from the melting snow banks. Even here in Wichita Falls where the temperature was 9C, there are still large patches of snow on the roof [and I'm not talking about senior snowbirds].

All in all, a pretty good day, unfortunately not very exciting... Now that we're almost out of the snowstorm range, we'll probably slow down a bit and make some pictures to share. Time for more fudge!