How 'bout 'dem Rays?
In our last blog, we were leaving New Mexico and headed east. We cruised through Texas with a one night stopover in Lubbock. We arrived in Oklahoma on Thursday and stayed overnight in Elk City - home of the National Route 66 Museum, which we toured on Friday morning
We left Elk City early Friday pm and played golf in Sweet River that afternoon, where we paired up with Mark and Debbie (?). 
Debbie is a high school Phys Ed teacher and former college gymnast, with a gorgeous golf swing. Mark works for the OK Dept. of Agriculture as a forester. Among his duties, he takes care of the "Survivor Tree" at the Oklahoma City Bombing National Memorial - site of the Timothy McVeigh/Terry Nichols domestic terrorist bombing in 1995. We visited there on Saturday morning. Very moving!
Saturday pm we played golf at the Tenkiller State Park Golf Course in Vian, and drove into Arkansas, where we watched the Rays lose game #6 at a Chili's in Fort Smith. We stayed nearby and then headed across AK to the Little Rock area , where we played a beautiful county course called Burn's Park. We then got to our KOA for the night, and watched the Rays beat the Red Sox in game #7 of the ALCS. Now it's the Phillies vs the Rays in the World Series, which starts on Wednesday. How great is that?
Tomorrow am we'll be off to Memphis, TN to look for Elvis. We're planning a visit to Graceland, golf at two great courses in Mississippi (@5 miles from Memphis), an evening on Beale Street and a paddlewheeler cruise down the Mississippi River. Obviously, we'll be there a few days. Should be neat.
Hopefully, we'll have stories to tell and more pictures to post in an upcoming blog. Fifteen days to go....
Later, J&B
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