It was an easy 40 mile day, largely considered a rest day. Had a tailwind and averaged over 18 mph. They stopped in a little town that was actually called Hooker - see the third picture in the original post (above) of the nondescript building labeled Hooker Chamber of Commerce. Had a nice middle-aged woman working there, and there were T-shirts urging readers to "Support Your Hookers!" He got a $12 belt buckle that says "Hooker" on it. Goody. They got into the hotel by noon, even with starting after 9 am and stopping for ice cream. Most exciting thing about the ride was, again, seeing a couple of trains. He's compiling quite a collection of random railroad photographs.
He found the Land of Oz/Yellow Brick Road kind of boring. He didn't do the museum tour, since it didn't look like much from the outside. He somehow missed the "yellow brick road" with various (incredibly cheap looking) characters when they rode past it, but he ran back out yesterday to try to get a picture. He said "it's not the best" and that they ordinarily would have stayed and posed there for pictures, but they could see the storm coming in. They ran into someone from the restaurant who told them they had to get back to the hotel, that a tornado had been observed in Skymont (?) and was coming their direction. So of course they CONTINUED on their way out to get that picture (hey, they did also mention they "only" had 40 min or so...), THEN hurried back to shelter. (It's really all my fault, I asked him to make sure he got a picture of the yellow brick road. I somehow thought it would be much cooler-looking.) You know the rest of the story from Mom's post last night.
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