Oklahoma is OK

Hey tour guide, WAKE UP!! I am awake KW, don't be so loud.  Well look at me.  I am showered, dressed and ready to hit the road  jack.  Hey tour guide, that could be a song.  Please don't start that again.  Where are we off to today?  We are going to Oklahoma City for the night.  We will make a few stops on the way.



Holy cow tour guide lets get out of here.  Whats the problem KW?  Look over there, its a Nuclear cloud.  Oh no, we will all be killed.  KW, settle down.  It is a Nuclear Reactor providing power to homes and businesses in Arkansas.  Well I remember back in 1979 when you had to stay at work for 3 straight days due to the Three Mile Island accident.  No worries now KW, they have improved on them and I don't work there anymore.



Arkansas nuclear One ( ANO ) is a two-unit pressurized water reactor nuclear power plant located on Lake Dardanelle just outside Russellvile, Arkansas.  It is the only nuclear power plant in Arkansas.



Fort Smith Arkansas National Historic Site.
The soldiers of the first Fort Smith kept the peace between the Cherokees and the Osage. The second Fort Smith supplied tribes in the Indian Territory, and later became the federal court with the task of enforcing law in the Indian Territory along the Trail of Tears.



Mrs. tour guide, KW and CJ stamping at Ft. Smith.







Dinner tonight at the Cattlemen's Cafe in Stockyard City.

Today's Notes:

What the heck is Toad Suck?

According to local lore, Toad Suck began long ago when steamboats traveled the Arkansas River just a few miles from Conway Arkansas.  At certain times of the year the water level would drop causing the boats to drop anchor and spend time waiting for the depth to rise back to safe transiting depth.  As sailors sometimes do, the crew would disembark and find a local tavern to pass the time away.  Some of the local residents would proclaim:  "Those guys suck on bottles till they swell up like toads!"



This is Holly the Luggage Cart, the most wanted employee of the hotel.  Please return her back to the lobby when she is finished helping you.

I Bet you didn't know this:

In 1945, Cattlemen's was owned by Hank Frey, a gambler of sorts.  In a smoked filled room at the old Biltmore Hotel in downtown Oklahoma City, Frey was running out of luck... and money... in a dice game attended by a Mr. Gene Wade.  Frey put up the Cattlemen's as the pot if Wade could roll a "hard six" (two 3's).  Wade put up his life savings as his bet.  With one roll of the dice Wade became a restaurateur!  He had made six the hard way.  On the wall is the 33 brand.

TTFN: