Pierce Arrow Show

Friday, August 5 - Our last show was scheduled at 7:30 last night, so we left about 6:00 for dinner.  We attempted to go to the Golden Corral, which was practically next door to the theatre, but the line was too long, so we went across the street to McFarlin's and got right in.  The show, Pierce Arrow, was a quartet of male singers who were very good.  The bass holds two Guiness records, one for the lowest note ever sang, and one for the widest range.  They sang a mix of mostly country and gospel, and had a comedian who was excellent  -- actually, I thought the comedian was the best part of the show.  They closed the show with a patriotic song called "Have We Forget," which was very moving. 

Comedian Jarrett Dougherty, playing his "toaster."










They also had a woman who sang a few songs, alone and with the quartet, and a 14-year old girl made her debut with them.  All in all, it was very entertaining.

 This theatre has been reviewed as the most beautiful showroom in Branson, and the comedian is also supposed to be the best in town.  This was my least favorite of the 3 shows we saw, but that is because of the type of the music -- I don't know many country songs, or gospel songs for that matter.  It's all a matter of taste, and they certainly were very good.
 
Friday morning we got another early start -- we knew we had miles to travel today.  We left the campground at 8:10, stopped for fuel and breakfast sandwiches at the convenience store and were on our way by 8:25.  We left the pretty green rolling hills of Missouri and breezed through Arkansas and hit Oklahoma at 11:10 (bumpity, bumpity, Joe says).  The temperature was 102 and moving on up.

When we crossed into Oklahoma, we were on Indian Nation property and I never did see the Oklahoma State sign.  We started looking for a place to have lunch, with some shade.  Joe missed the first possibility, but found an abandoned gas station again, so he pulled off there.  It had a tree, but wasn't putting out much shade.

So he just made a pit stop here and we moved on.  Luckily, we found a little city park just on the edge of Locust Grove, so we did have shade.  We took an hour break, then it was back at it.

We topped off our gas tank here, we found gas for $3.459.  Then we crossed the Grand River.

The temperature kept on moving up  How hot was it?   It was so hot even the cows weren't eating.

We drove through a wide spot in the road named Mazie, Oklahoma, but I wasn't quick enough to get a picture either of the city limits or of the water tower.  We made our way across Hwy 412, then down US 69 to I-40, skipping Tulsa.  It is brown and dry in Oklahoma.  We came upon a brush fire right beside the road that they were fighting, and we saw on the evening news that there were several of these springing up.  We crossed a huge Lake Eufaula right on I-40.

I found a casino just outside of Oklahoma City with free parking, so we pulled in there, not knowing what to expect.  There's a truck stop on the parking lot as well, and we got behind this huge over-sized load -- don't even know what it was but there were 13 axles on it.

We got off the road about 4:00, the temperature was 112.  If it got any hotter after that, I don't even want to know.  It is supposed to be 108 Saturday, another record here.  The campground was just one strip along the back, but the spots were paved, and it had 50 amp electricity.  Actually it was quite nice, and it was free!  We hooked up the electricity and went inside the casino to cool off.  I think we even came out $10 ahead!

 

It was a long day -- Joe drove 309 miles.  So he still has it in him, but he didn't like it!