I didn’t want to go home on the same road that I took to get there. So, instead of taking the safe route (I-35), I chose to take I-44 east…
You might ask, “What is so risky about that? It’s an interstate highway?”
I forgot to pack the A/C power supply for my laptop so it died. That meant that I couldn’t verify my route home on Google maps before we left.
“I’m not sure if highway 169 (this little state highway that I like) crosses it…I think it does, but I’m not sure. I could be wrong.”
If I was driving with my wife, I don’t know that she would have gone for it. However, I had another man with me in the car; a young man at that!
“Let’s go for it. We’ll get home sometime.”
We hit our first obstacle within 15 minutes. We had to pay a toll of $3.50 and I had, you guessed it, no cash! My son had exactly three $1 bills left in his wallet. We scrounged around every nook and cranny in that little Honda and found 53 cents.
I asked the young man at the toll gate if we would have to pay any other tolls.
“You’ll have to pay another $3.50 when you get to Tulsa.”
Since I didn’t know where the toll booth was, we just picked an off ramp before we got into the city to find an ATM so I could withdraw some cash. Lucky for us, the one that we chose had a Braum’s Ice Cream shop on it!
Now, I have never been to Braum’s but I have repeatedly heard that it is THE place to get ice cream. Both of us agreed that it seemed like a good time to find out if it really was all that…
It really is!!!
Every single bite of our double scoop of chocolate chip cookie dough and peanut butter cup cone was absolutely fab!
“Son, I am so glad that we don’t have one of these near our house. We’d both be big as houses! You might have to wrestle heavyweight!”
It was ridiculous how good it was!
We got back on the freeway only to get off two exits later when I saw a sign for Oral Roberts University. I had visited the campus 28 years ago when I was a new Christian. I had to show my son the huge praying hands!
On our way to get back on the freeway, my son noticed a parking lot full of hot Ford Mustangs! We stumbled onto one of the best Ford car shows that I have ever been to! Nearly every great sports car that Ford has ever made was represented. We saw at least two cars that are valued at more than $1,000,000!
What a great trip home! Although I nearly missed the exit, highway 169 DOES cross I-44! I’m glad we took a chance!
