Flint Rocks, Oil, Wind Farms and Cattle

From Amarillo, we headed North.

 Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument and Lake Meredith National Recreation Area were in the National Park Book and we wanted to get the stamps from all the places in the Panhandle. The Indians mined flint in this location and traded it in Mexico, California, and Colorado. At one time, there was a city of over 500 Indians living in the area.
Alibates doesn't get that many visitors and you have to schedule ahead to get on a tour with the ranger. Since we weren't scheduled and it was a non accessible trail, we looked at the visitors center and Patrick did his junior ranger badges for Alibates and Lake Meredith National Recreation Area.

Out of Amarillo the terrain is very flat.

Then suddenly there were massive mesas and deep canyons.

There lots and lots of wind farms. Taking pictures out the window gave it a funny color.

Down in the canyon at the Alibates visitors center.

Becky liked this mesa.

Oklahoma was red dirt.

New oil rigs and oil tanks were going up all along 152 and Rt 6 in OK.

Wind and oil and cattle seemed to be the theme of the Panhandle and west OK.

We tried to stop in Elk City but they were full up and we moved on to a KOA east of Elk City. They were pretty empty when we stopped at 6 and in the morning, they were completely full.