I was just a child the last time I was in Oklahoma, we passed through it on a couple of trips to and from Arizona back in the mid-60s. I was scheduled to go there in 2020 for a conference, COVID morphed that into a pre-recorded webinar (recorded in one take much the surprise of the recording engineer.) It is the only state I have been to, but not as an adult.
Oklahoma is north of Texas out there in the middle of the great plains.
Notably for me, it is home to the Federal Aviation Administration aircraft registry. If you have the tail number of a US registered aircraft you can research it's history, ownership and current status with them. That is also the office that transfers legal ownership of airplanes in the USA.
Unless I ever drive across the country, I will probably never go back to Oklahoma.
If not for the musical, many would not have clue about where it is or know anything about it.
ReplyDeleteAnd I doubt the people who wrote the musical had ever been there.
DeleteThere are 9 states I’ve never set foot in. Oklahoma is one of them. But I can sing-spell it!
ReplyDeleteCatchy music.
DeleteI, too, have never been to Oklahoma, though I have seen the musical which counts for nothing, really.
ReplyDeleteBut posting this I am looking outside at a gorgeous clear day and now ... ♪ ♫ Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day ♪ ♫ ... will be playing on a loop in my head!
I had the top down for my trip to the farmers market this morning, glorious.
DeleteThat song is about the only thing I know about Oklahoma.
ReplyDeleteAbout what most of us know.
DeleteOklahoma is one of those states that you "pass through" but rarely stop at or so I thought until I learned of the huge Chihuly glass exhibit at the OKC Art Museum. That prompted me to fly to OKC for an over-night visit just to see that exhibit. That was last summer.
ReplyDeleteA reason to go there.
DeleteMy husband interviewed for a job for president of a mortgage company in Oklahoma. I didn't want to move there for many reasons, its tornado season being one of the big ones. I vividly remember the photo of the firefighter carrying the baby girl from the bombing of of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.
ReplyDeleteWe came close to a job in Nebraska at about the same time.
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