• Oct. 1, 2009
All Because I Wanted To See A Museum For FREE!
Did any one else go? We did and I have to say I was a little disappointed in where we chose to go. We drove for hours and hours on the never ending road all the way to Atoka to go see the only certified confederate civil war cemetery in the state.
It wasn't awful just not what I was expecting. I handed the clerk the printed admission ticket and she tells me oh honey that's great, but our museum is free anyway. 
WHAT! I drove almost the whole length of Oklahoma to attend a museum that is free anyway? I almost lost my mind getting here and experience the road trip from h***? If I had known it was free all the time and we could have went any ole time without cost we probably would have went elsewhere. Oh well there's always next year. Maybe.
There were graves over one hundred years old and marked, although there were many that were only marked with a piece of stone. The museum was small and didn't take us long to go through, although there was a display of Lane Frost and Reba McIntire memorabilia. Also a saddle made from a buffalo hide from the 101 ranch during it's heyday.
McKenna was tickled though because she got a slingshot from the gift store. We usually always buy something from our travels and sorry to say this time I couldn't find anything worth getting, so we bought the slingshot for her. We did bring home brochures for the scrapbook at least.
Probably the most exciting part of the trip was the drive down. We set our gps when we left home and once we got to OKC it kept telling us a way we were sure was wrong. Finally after getting gas I told my dh maybe it was recognizing a shorter route or a backway and maybe we should take it and we could see some scenery.
So we took off the way it said. At first it seemed to be fine althougb we were traveling a blacktop highway. Then all of a sudden it has us turn and we turn on a dirt road. I'm saying out loud you have to be kidding, but we go ahead because by then we've traveled twenty miles.
We travel round about with twists and turns and end up back on a blacktop eventually. We travel along for awhile and then again we are directed to dirt. Once again although louder this time I say You have to be kidding! This time it's more twisty turney, but comes back to pavement eventually.
We finally come to a descent main highway and by then we are so hopelessly confused we aren't sure we can find out way home. We are told to turn left on old hwy 3. I miss the turn and have to turn around because the road wasn't marked. We travel along until we come to Coalgate, where we stop for snacks.
Then back on the road we are told to turn onto a street that I once again miss because the street sign says something else, so I turn around and notice on the other side of the street, same side of the road is a street sign with the correct street name.
We are traveling along in literal countryside only on pavement when all of a sudden it turns to, you guessed it, DIRT. By now I say very loudly, who am I kidding, I yell YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING! We travel on dirt that switches to gravel that switches to what looks like was once pavement, that switches back to dirt all the while with twists and turns.
We actually meet traffic going in the opposite direction! All of a sudden we come up to a stop sign and low and behold there is a four lane divided highway in front of us and we are on the edge of Atoka. We travel a mile or so and our gps is silent other than saying something about staying left within so many feet for route 69.
So I stop at a gas station and ask the attendant, who obviously is foreign so I hope he knows where the place is, for directions. He says to go back North for about four blocks and it's on the right side of the road. I get back in the truck and tell my dh and wonder out loud if the guy was sure if it was blocks or miles.
Turns out he was right! 
Once we arrived the darn place was almost directly across the road from where we pulled off of the dirt road when we got to Atoka! Now why didn't our gps let us know?
Oh and I only heard the question are we there yet or how much further a million, bazillion times today to the point of threatening to pester my dd the same way if she didn't quit. Hey something finally worked. 
So where did the rest of you go? More over how was the trip? 
