Day 21 – One of the joys of traveling in the southwest is anticipation. Just think, around the next bend or over the far hill could lie one of the 7 cities of gold. They must still be there because Coronado never found them when he was exploring the southwest in 1541. Instead you find the small towns and rural communities that make this country great. We did pass a large meat processing plant, Seaboard Hog Processing, as we left Guymon this morning. Seaboard Hogs are to the Oklahoma Panhandle as Tyson Chicken is to Arkansas.
The countryside is semi-arid yet it produces cattle and wheat in abundance. The humidity is much higher than the 8% we experienced in Taos. The winds we experienced coming across the high plains is terrific. We really admire Carrie and Jerry having the courage to ride in this wind.
We arrived at Beaver Dunes Lake State Park and set up camp in a grove of cottonwood trees with a hot, humid high wind blowing, turned the air conditioner on in the trailer and hibernated until time to leave the next morning.
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