Daily Didactic
The day began in Crawford State Park, after an impressive night in which two inches of rain reportedly fell. It certainly sounded like it on the roof of the bus and all was moist and damp in the morning. We headed south and, now almost exactly where we were two days ago, decided to detour 15 miles and revisit Iantha for a few pictures that we had failed to take on day seventeen. This, unfortunately, got Brian going on the house hunt thing again and we ended up heading to nearby Lamar to follow up on one avenue we had not before, looking at deeds of sale in the recorder's office. It turned out to be very interesting, not very helpful in the hunt for the house, and pretty time consuming. We did find a deed signed by Brian's great, great, great grandmother for some property she had sold that was not what we were looking for. Ultimately, we did not get any useful information on the house in the photograph, but met many more nice folks.

Very late in the afternoon we began our trek south into Oklahoma, intending to stay in an Oklahoma State Park near the Arkansas border. If there was a sign for it we must have driven right past it. We pulled into, quite a bit later, Devil's Den State Park in Arkansas and hit the hay.

Daily Pictures (Slide Show)

Morning at the wet and hazy Crawford State Park		A good place to be a spider
A universal problem		The bus is new again
Back in Iantha		Main street, closed for business
Chasing turkeys on a back road		This little guy wanted to fight the bus
A deed of sale signed by Brian's great, great, great grandmother		Brian pretending to be reading and not just holding up a really heavy book for the picture
Iantha cemetery		Oklahoma welcomes us
Theresa talks to the cows		Following a pink Cadillac on Route 66
On the bridge over the Grand Lake O' The Cherokees		Pretty water and sky
This guy looked significantly better outside of Billings		Ahh, our first toll of the trip
After dark, Arkansas welcomes us

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