Wow – what a nice state park. Wish we had time to explore. There weren’t many people at it. Got a later start and we were headed west to Pawhuska. Not long after leaving, we knew we were in the real west when we saw a commotion ahead of us – a “real” cowboy jumped out of his truck stopped in the highway, waving his hands at two of his cows that were in the middle of the road. Once we got passed there, we met his ranch hand coming down the dirt road from the ranch, pulling a trailer with two horses already tacked up ready to work. Life on a ranch in Oklahoma. We had planned to stop at the Pioneer Woman’s Mercantile – but it didn’t happen this trip – the line from the door to get in was all the way down the block and turned going down the next one. I read that she serves about 6,000 people a day in the Mercantile – there’s a restaurant, a bakery, and a coffee shop. And the population of Pawhuska is around 3,000. So, on down the road to Wellington, Oklahoma for the night. We stayed at a campground called the Woodlands RV Park. There was not a single tree in the park. Oh – leaving Pawhuska we passed the Drummond Ranch – two big entrances with the ironwork signs on the big posts. Saw someone driving in the field. I think it was Ladd.
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