Wandering Around NEO (North Eastern Oklahoma) — October 23, 2022

Big Cabin, Oklahoma

October 24, 2022

My intent for yesterday had been to head south and west toward Tulsa. But Saturday evening (today is Monday), a person at Subway in Langley told me she had just learned about Picher in school and that it was a ghost town due to lead poisoning. With that new information, I found that Picher was close by and changed my plans.

I am very glad I did. Picher was surreal although most of the buildings have been torn down. It truly is a ghost town. On my drive there, I saw the plains of Oklahoma and what a drought can do to pasture land -- the grass is so dry it crunches under foot. I visited Miami, OK -- pronounced Miamah -- and Commerce, OK -- the boyhood home of Mickey Mantle. US Route 66 passed through this area and its legacy remains -- both actively and historically. From Picher I headed to Big Cabin (location of a Love's truck stop) and experienced more of the drought plagued plains and the town of Vinita.

I took well over 200 photos yesterday -- and I could have taken more. I've made separate posts for the towns I visited.