Tulsa/Claremore
Nature called and I took a break at Claremore, Oklahoma I stopped the car at a filling station and made a detour nearby to the Will Rogers Memorial Museum, which is a repository for almost everything about the writer, cowboy, entertainer and humorist, among many other roles. I'm glad of the accidental stop because I learned more about him, such as his background of one-quarter Cherokee. And Claremore used to be in Indian territory before Oklahoma became a state in 1907.
Rogers is famous for making one-liners such as this: "You don't climb out of anything as quick as you fall in."
And that resembles quips from another fellow who's famous in the business community -- Charlie Munger, the sidekick of Warren Buffett. I was lucky enough to be in Omaha, Nebraska in May for the annual Berkshire Hathaway stockholders' meeting and to listen to both men speak. Among Munger's sayings was this: “If you’re scared to do something, maybe you should get your feet wet with a little more failure.”
Wisdom packaged in a single sentence, which is all I have to say.
Since I'm in for the night at Springfield, Missouri, I'm considering a trip to Hannibal, which happens to be the boyhood town of another great American, Samuel Clemens a.k.a. Mark Twain. I had visited Hannibal 20 years ago for an archaeological field school. I'm sure an old friend would have some fond memories of that trip, and she might be amused to know that I stopped by.
Cahokia Mounds is also en route, near St. Louis, and that might be another good diversion. The Native American site is another place I had visited in 1990.
Earlier I had stopped at a Sears Auto Center in Tulsa to change the oil for the second time on this Camry. I have logged about 7,500 miles during this three-week trip. Does that seem a lot to you? For me, it doesn't.
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