We spent two nights at the Fire Lake Grand Casino east of Oklahoma
City near Shawnee. Driving up from Texas,
we chose state and US routes and avoided the toll road and were on I-35 only a
short distance near Ardmore. It was a
pleasant drive on rolling highways and it was nice to see more and more green
fields as we got further north.
Curiosity would have had us drive straight up I-35 through Moore as we
have done in the past, but we decided to avoid city traffic and gawkers along
the recent tornado route. As it turned
out, it was the one-month-anniversary of the devastating storm and the TV
stations all had on-the-scene reports. They said clean-up is about 40% accomplished.
As we approached Shawnee we did see places where there was much damage
as it also touched down in that area briefly.
The reason for a 2-night stay was to break up the drive and we drove
into Shawnee on Thursday and to Midwest City on Friday to run some
errands. The Casino has water and
electric hookups and we took advantage of that to run our A/C as the temperature
hovered in the high 90s. Typical of
Indian casinos, we took advantage of the free soft drink stations and this one
also has free soft ice cream…yummy on a hot and quite windy day. We headed on east again on
Saturday morning (missing the opportunity to attend the Elvis impersonation contest
that night!) and drove on the I-44 toll road to our next stop at the Downstream
Casino at Exit 1 in Missouri. The casino
itself is actually in Oklahoma, the hotel in Missouri and the RV parking lot is
in Kansas…how’s that for a Tri-State stop?
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