Western Oklahoma 2-day road trip - Great Salt Plains, Gloss Mountain, Holy City of Wichita

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    This was a 2-day trip I took through the Western part of Oklahoma. I saw some beautiful places as well as a bunch of unique/odd ones! I had a blast making this video - hope you enjoy it!
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    0:00 Intro
    0:50 Day 1
    7:17 Day 2
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  • @DLB1858
    @DLB1858 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Thanks for showing Waynoka. My Grandpa worked for Santa Fe railroad there in the 50’s and 60’s till he got relocated to Albuquerque. Used to have lots of family there. Loved to visit

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Thanks! I also did a longer video about Waynoka if you’re interested!

  • @kcinks
    @kcinks 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I went to Meer's after I saw it on a food show, they raise their own beef. You are not far from the top of the Wichita mountains.
    Magnificent view!

  • @devonfolmar2291
    @devonfolmar2291 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    You can dig for salt crystals in the salt planes! Super fun to find crystals with the hourglass inside made of sand!

  • @bubblehed738
    @bubblehed738 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I was just at Quartz Mountain last month. Drove all over it and hiked 3 or 4 of the the trails. Just about an hour south of there is Copper Breaks SP, just across the border into Texas. Another VERY cool park. The rock and dirt are green because of all the copper in the soil.

  • @mitchstallings7196
    @mitchstallings7196 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Holy City is where they re-enact Jesus' story every year. Gets VERY busy there. Brings back lots of memories. Was born and raised there. Love Oklahoma.

  • @jeannerountree952
    @jeannerountree952 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thank you for taking us to Meers Oklahoma into the place where they make burgers. This brings back so many memories of my time living in that part of Oklahoma.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      That was a good burger! Definitely need to go back. Glad they keep the old traditions going!

  • @shilohgardner
    @shilohgardner 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    “Were slap out of that”. Love it such an Oklahoman thing to say! Great video from Tulsa!

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂😂 Yeah I thought that was great and had no idea he was gonna say that! Thanks for watching!

    • @shilohgardner
      @shilohgardner 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Travel With a Wiseguy absolutely I subbed too about to watch part two. That guy you interviewed had a great personality the people of Oklahoma I’m so glad I was born here and decided to stay as a kid I wanted to move! Merry Christmas and be blessed on your future travels!

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks for the sub! And same to you!

  • @louisliu5638
    @louisliu5638 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We were at a plateau outside Tulsa just like Gloss Mtn. back in 61. Dad was wearing his "clobber boots" for oil work and we climbed to the top where that material caps off the hill. He stomped on a bug, and the bug just flattened itself out, then popped up and walked away. That was our introduction to just how TOUGH bugs are in Oklahoma.

    • @Randrew
      @Randrew 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "TOUGH bugs" - The Eastern Redbud is the Oklahoma state tree. I've likened it to Oklahomans themselves - without strict guidance we can grow kind of scraggly and twisted, but sometimes we're quite beautiful and we sure don't give up!

  • @jeannerountree952
    @jeannerountree952 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    When I was first newly married back in 1989 in Fort sill Oklahoma we drove up to Woodward to a very cute family owned furniture store and bought our first kitchen table from them. I had that table up until a few years ago when it was loaned out and then eventually sold. I loved that table.

    • @driftingover
      @driftingover 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Was it Goin's or Merrimen's? Both are still in business!

  • @jtmoore662
    @jtmoore662 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was raised in the stillwater/cushing area of OK. My sister lives in Colo and when my niece graduated HS, I decided to travel to the panhandle of OK to see it for the first time. I stopped at a little town called Kenton Ok. It is few hundred yards from the NM border. It is the only town in Ok that is on MTN time, all others on CST.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I love Kenton! I actually did a video about that town as well. Cool area near Black Mesa!

  • @rk-ec7kx
    @rk-ec7kx 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have extended family in Altus Oklahoma, when I was a kid I spent summers up there, we would go to lake lugart

  • @paaat001
    @paaat001 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    When you were stomping through the trails at Quartz Mountain, they must not have told you about the rattlesnake round-up they hold there each spring. Thousands of snakes are collected under those rocks and taken to Mangum where they are served fried on a stick or turned into belts and hatbands.

  • @duggar11
    @duggar11 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Too bad you didn't get to go up Mt. Scott. That is a must stop in SW OK. The view from the top is tremendous. I noticed it was raining when you drove by it. Great video.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you! This was one of my first videos and I was just kind of randomly wandering around. I hope to go there in the future!

  • @chriscosby2459
    @chriscosby2459 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love your videos Wiseguy -- I watch two or three every day. You go to some places that are missed by other people documenting various locations. I am a small game hunter and I might add that the dove hunting in NW Oklahoma is outstanding.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow that’s awesome - thanks so much! I appreciate the comment!

  • @shalakabooyaka1480
    @shalakabooyaka1480 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Oklahoma has some cool geography, as you've seen. We also have swamps in the SE corner of the state, with alligators. I love the wesern side of OK for the vistas, but prefer the eastern forested areas more. Up in the Ouachitas or Ozarks

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      OK is so different from east to west!

  • @TheGrandma02
    @TheGrandma02 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was raised in Western Oklahoma, Elk City to be exact, but never heard of Jet or Slapout, Ok. My daughter was born in Shattuck, Ok, I worked at the hospital while I lived there. I have been to the Holy City of Wichita, they used to have a Passion Play in the mountains where you could watch the play. Good memories

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice! They seem to have fun with the Slapout name there 😊 Jet is close to the dunes and salt flats. Nice area to explore! I’m sure the Holy City is a lot of fun with those plays!

  • @4BLivestock
    @4BLivestock 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Grew up in western Oklahoma, traveled those roads and through those towns many times. I never knew the story behind slapout, very cool. Thanks for the drive down memory lane.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So many interesting and beautiful areas in western OK!

  • @ssranch6017
    @ssranch6017 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm a new subscriber to your Channel. And the reason why I enjoyed it very much thank you sir for the video I'll be watching for them your friend from Stuttgart Arkansas

  • @timothywilliams1359
    @timothywilliams1359 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I made nearly the same western part of this trip with my brother a few years ago, on our way to Zion National Park and the Grand Canyon... much further West!

  • @UMtiger311
    @UMtiger311 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Two years ago we were driving an RV back towards OKC and almost out of gas.. thank God for Slapout! My dad says 'well, looks like everybody's here'

  • @abtfilmskansas
    @abtfilmskansas ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome video! It felt like I was on the adventure! They call them the glass, or gloss mountains because of the little shards of gypsum that cover the buttes.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks! Just saw your channel - your videos are great! Subscribed!

  • @randywise5241
    @randywise5241 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They call them the glass mountains because of the Isinglass crystals found there. After a rain and the sun hits the hills they sparkle.

  • @rodneystice7771
    @rodneystice7771 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy reference. “Always bring a towel.”

  • @CarnivoreDog
    @CarnivoreDog 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    At quartz mountain resort, Altus lake. There's a town under the lake that was named Lugert. When the lake gets low enough you can see parts of some buildings in the lake.

  • @cynthialinaweaver77
    @cynthialinaweaver77 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I’m so glad I found your channel I just love going on these road trips with you thank you👍💕

  • @wesleybarrett9502
    @wesleybarrett9502 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Though I was born in Fort Bragg, I spent some years in Fort Sill/Lawton area. The end of the video I recognize. I experienced a sandstorm at Holy City on Easter Night. I remembered about Heart Break Hotel in Duncan. I have not been in that area in 10 years. I have not been to Holy City in 25 years. Nice to see it's still around

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh wow I bet that sandstorm was crazy!

    • @wesleybarrett9502
      @wesleybarrett9502 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was a reminder of dust bowl days. It made the front page news in the local area.

    • @timothywilliams1359
      @timothywilliams1359 ปีที่แล้ว

      I saw some of these sites a few years ago when I was at Sill for my son's graduation from Army Basic.

  • @Zuch3to
    @Zuch3to ปีที่แล้ว +4

    They are pronounced the "Gloss Mountains" to natives of the region. However, they were originally slated as the "Glass Mountains" due to the glass-like reflection from the crystals you can find in the dirt of the "mountains." Correct way to pronounce it is "gloss", but Gloss Mountains or Glass Mountains are correct.

  • @noserly
    @noserly 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Don’t see much about my home state, good work on the editing also, great video.

  • @shannonfrench6893
    @shannonfrench6893 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Very cool video! I've been to a heck of a lot of places in Oklahoma but you showed me some I have to go check out. Thanks again; enjoy your videos!

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you very much! Lots of cool places to go in Ok!

  • @TexExpatriate1
    @TexExpatriate1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Shattuck. Thirty-four miles west of Woodward, home of my birthplace close to a hundred years ago.

  • @andoharris1478
    @andoharris1478 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have to work in Duncan Monday and Tuesday. Our client was telling us about the burgers at Meers.

  • @CarnivoreDog
    @CarnivoreDog 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Roger Mills county far Central western ok has some very cool landscape. Cheyenne. Ellis county right north of RM is also very unique

  • @larrymcvey3660
    @larrymcvey3660 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A lady that took of my Grandmother before she passed worked at the slapout grocery store when she was a teenager. She told me the story of the owner was always slapout of grocery items and would sure get some in. My grandmother was Edith McVey and the care taker was Olie May Ewing Both lived in Pritchett, Colo.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว

      Slapout is a great story of a little community. I love when a small town embraces that kind of “history”. Thanks for sharing!

  • @stevehilliard1495
    @stevehilliard1495 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting as usual. Keep up the good work 😊

  • @Randrew
    @Randrew 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I grew up "in" Yewed Oklahoma, which was a ghost town even then in the '70s. It's about 10 miles west of the Salt Lake area in Alfalfa County. I wen to school through 8th grade in Cherokee - about 8 miles ENE of Yewed.
    You kind of slipped past Nash which is a sort of twin town next door to Jet. It's officially on the Oklahoma registries as "Nashville", but it's been called "Nash" for longer than I've existed.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yewed - Dewey spelled backwards!

    • @Randrew
      @Randrew 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TravelwithaWiseguy Yessir! They wanted the name Dewey but it was already taken!

  • @romanpetty2390
    @romanpetty2390 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow!! You covered a whole lotta miles in two days

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว

      Haha! Yeah I wasn’t messing around 😂😂 Fun trip!

  • @kaymerry369
    @kaymerry369 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video . Variety in Oklahoma. Interesting changes in scenery. The Holy City was neat. Great areas .😊

  • @jorgedominguez4124
    @jorgedominguez4124 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love the music!

  • @stevendavis1940
    @stevendavis1940 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Enjoyed your Ok. travelogue...

  • @duggar11
    @duggar11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Mae Axton wrote "Heart Break Hotel" for Elvis. Elvis sold 2 million records of that song. Mae is Hoyt Axton's Mother. Hoyt Axton was born in Duncan and grew up just a few miles south in Commanche. Mae wrote a lot of country songs. Mae and Hoyt were recently inducted into the Duncan Hall of Fame. Ron Howard of Opie fame was also born in Duncan and visited here a couple of years ago. Fort Sill is due south of the Wichita Mountains.

  • @dougmoring7321
    @dougmoring7321 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love your videos!

  • @driftingover
    @driftingover 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Heartbreak hotel was written by Mae Axton and Tommy Durden. Mae and Hoyt Axton wrote a ton of famous songs sung by other people. Heartbreak Hotel is about a lonely man that jumped from a window of that hotel.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Correct I actually noted that correction in the video description. Thanks!

  • @robertodebeers2551
    @robertodebeers2551 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent video. I don't recall these rugged landscapes, although I used to ride my motorcycle over to Altus to watch the B-52s do touch and goes at the airfield there, back when I was stationed at Fort Sill, in Lawton.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you! It’s a very cool area!

    • @paaat001
      @paaat001 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Now it's C-17s and KC-135s and KC-46s but they still do the touch and goes.

  • @travis303
    @travis303 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh goodness, you got me. You were in Duncan asking can we guess what you would be doing in Duncan and I thought you were going to make a pun on Duncan by eating Dunkin' Donuts, haha

  • @Matteo46845
    @Matteo46845 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Amazing! Breathtaking! It doesn't even look like the South!

    • @dustin-512
      @dustin-512 ปีที่แล้ว

      Welp been like that for awhile 🤣🤣❤❤❤❤

    • @georgesheffield1580
      @georgesheffield1580 ปีที่แล้ว

      Western Oklahoma is the west .
      Eastern Oklahoma is the south

  • @doncole5409
    @doncole5409 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    About Heartbreak Hotel, the song was written by Hoyt Axton’s mom, Mae Acton and Tommy Durden. Elvis only got credit because he (through his manager) agreed to sing it.

  • @steveloomis4086
    @steveloomis4086 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The guy that started the Slap Out store was Tom Lemons, he was interviewed by one of the Oklahoma City Tv stations "On the Oklahoma Road" series back in the 80's. Tom was in his 90's then and related the story about being "slap out" of what ever was asked for.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว

      Love that story! Always fun to find a town with a unique name and backstory!

  • @kinderjenni
    @kinderjenni ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sad you skipped Elk City but I enjoyed your wanderings. Nice job!

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you! I have a bit of Elk City in my Oklahoma Route 66 video. Nice town!

  • @oldfarmshow
    @oldfarmshow ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👍

  • @TravelwithaWiseguy
    @TravelwithaWiseguy  3 ปีที่แล้ว

    If you want to see some more Oklahoma footage, check out my Eastern Oklahoma video here: th-cam.com/video/Ll_BsiL-NBA/w-d-xo.html

  • @johnc.4871
    @johnc.4871 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Duncan was the headquarters of Hallibuton, a well service company. Started out with world war one army surplus trucks to cement oil and gas wells. Also several big ranches are in Duncan area. Duncan got its name from Mr. Duncan who had a general store on the Chisholm Trail. Marlow was named after Dr. Marlow and his 3 boys who were wrongfully accused of stealing cattle. The mob shootout in Grahram, TX caused the federal court to be located in Dallas, Tx. Velma to the south of Duncan supplied the USA of most of the oil used in WWII. Meridian was the location of a refinery near Duncan. Gloss mountains is because of the gypsum on top. Buffalo are free range at the Holy City set. That's why the buffalo chips. Weather ford and Woodward area us where the Anadarko Basin is and the first 18,000ft well, Tomcat #1. the result of it and Penn square bank in OKC nearly collapsed the banking system. Near Duncan is Tatums. I was told it was an Indian slave tow,but not sure. The last segregated school somewhere in the area. Its delapidated. Bray has a closed cotton gin and aloud was cotton and peanut farming. Irrigation farming. Arbuckle formation can be seen in Northwest part if Wichita mountains. Needs started as a gold mining community. Many if the small towns like milo and Ratliff city are old oil boom city's that once had 20,000 plus population. The healdton area was once covered in oil and wells. Same for Ardmore. Ardmore nearly burned and the law of no cotton and gas on the same train came about from that incident. I thought slap out got its name for a different reason. Granite has a Dolease brothers rock quarry.

  • @metrolax
    @metrolax 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Gloss and Glass are interchangeable. One name was the original but it'll answer to either

  • @brucemorris6319
    @brucemorris6319 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I live just east of Slapout a few miles.

  • @elliswoodall407
    @elliswoodall407 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Especially that panhandle part (I.e. High plains) It’s gets mountain 🏔 ness and undulating in parts that it seemed like you’re in the true southwest

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว

      Definitely a unique part of the state! Fun place to explore!

  • @briansmith9720
    @briansmith9720 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It may have been intended to call them the Glass mountains all along but the English surveyor's accent was so thick they thought he was saying Gloss

  • @WilliamWeicht
    @WilliamWeicht ปีที่แล้ว

    I just went through Slapout this past Saturday. I bought a Slapout T-shirt as well. Gas was $3.99.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nice! I love how they embrace the small town Oklahoma thing. Fun stuff!

  • @travis303
    @travis303 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh yeah the Twister museum. I have heard of that. My mom said she wanted to go to that one year and we still haven't been yet.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah I would’ve liked to have gone in. Maybe next time! Great movie!

    • @SoonerBear
      @SoonerBear ปีที่แล้ว

      I've been there. It's about 2 hours from Pawnee, where I grew up & still live there today. That was in 2007 or '08, I can't remember which. I went w/my mom, who passed this last March. It was one of the most memorable trips I've ever taken. Word of advice: Take every opportunity to spend time w/loved ones. You don't know when their, or your time will come. I thought mom was gonna live till she was 90, at least. She outlived her mother, but not her father. Her sister passed the week before she did. How ironic is that? It was a shock.

    • @travis303
      @travis303 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SoonerBear I already know that lesson. I still have my mom but my dad died in 2017 of cancer at the age of 66. It was a shock that he died so young, at least he was young in our eyes anyway.

  • @lifewithjosef
    @lifewithjosef 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Who knew there was a salt flat in Oklahoma?
    Edit: Bringing your own towel, I'd have never thought of that, a hell of a good idea!

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah it's not nearly as big at Utah but a cool place to visit nonetheless! And the towel has saved me numerous times :)

    • @dirtfarmer7472
      @dirtfarmer7472 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Around on the N side of the lake a viewing area for birds

  • @annetterussell2195
    @annetterussell2195 ปีที่แล้ว

    You should think about making longer videos for your viewers to enjoy. I would certainly watch

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’ve got several videos as long as 30 minutes on the channel! Thank you for watching!

    • @annetterussell2195
      @annetterussell2195 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TravelwithaWiseguy Thanks

  • @TexExpatriate1
    @TexExpatriate1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    State bureaucrats actually renamed the Glass Mountains Gloss Mountains. They are named for the mica all over and through them.

    • @georgesheffield1580
      @georgesheffield1580 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is Selenite not mica , very differen minerals .

  • @DiamondDazzle
    @DiamondDazzle 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    wiseguy - heard your a track coach - do you know of any running groups specicaly trail running in eastern Ok. we plan to relocate to sallisaw .Thanks for your informative videos

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I am a track coach 😊 I don’t know of any but I can ask around!

  • @jtmoore662
    @jtmoore662 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dude how did you get into Meers with hardly anyone there? Me and two of my friends waited in line for over an hour.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was kind of during Covid, so not as many people were out and about I think.

  • @robertmiles5046
    @robertmiles5046 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It’s all Gloss mountain state park. You may have seen an informational plaque at the base, but Gloss was most likely a scribe misunderstanding the surveyors from the northeast accent. It’s believed they actually called them glass mountains, due to their selenite crystal content.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That makes sense. I couldn’t figure it out when I was there from looking online. Thanks for the info!

    • @steveloomis4086
      @steveloomis4086 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Technically they are Glass mountains, with the British pronunciation GLOSS. One of the survey crew was British. The locals get their nose out of joint if called Glass, they will correct you. I am a local but don't care....

  • @jerryslater5173
    @jerryslater5173 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    See you made it to Slapout and my home Gods Mrs

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว

      It was a fun little stop! Will definitely go again someday!

  • @Moon-eg3vm
    @Moon-eg3vm ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The Howard family was from Duncan: Rance, Ronnie & Clint were born there.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว

      Very interesting! Thanks!

    • @Moon-eg3vm
      @Moon-eg3vm ปีที่แล้ว

      We live in Blair (north of Altus). My husband works at QtzMtn.
      We didn’t care for Meersburgers & it was very expensive for the quality. That was 6 years ago. More for the Meers’ name.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว

      I enjoyed it, but I’m pretty easy to please haha 😂

  • @groverearp2600
    @groverearp2600 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I grew up in Altus in the 60's you could get d drivers license at 14 years old back then

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow those are different times for sure!

    • @grover2727
      @grover2727 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TravelwithaWiseguy The driving age was 14 so the farm kids could get to school. The schools were segregated there back in the 60's. We were just kids then nobody ever talked about it . I didn't even realize it till many years later.

  • @ccnn1973
    @ccnn1973 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where was beer city exactly?

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว

      From the best I can gather, about 3 miles south of Liberal.

  • @justnerdystuff
    @justnerdystuff 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When you were in the Holy City in Wichita Oklahoma, I wondered if they performed the Passion Play there. I googled it and The "Prince of Peace" Easter Pageant is the longest-running of its kind in the United States. Created in 1926, this passion play drama is hosted outdoors in the Holy City of the Wichitas near Lawton . Maybe some day I'll get to see that

  • @CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525
    @CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Maybe went there in another episode but the black Mesa out in as far west as you can get I still be in Oklahoma out in the panhandle. It is very awe striking. Because unlike all the other Masons we calmly see as colorful this one is very dark. Plus you don't have very far to go to be in New Mexico Texas or Colorado. That part of Colorado is interesting because it's not the mountains area. There's a town maybe an hour or two away I think from the black Mesa down in New Mexico and it's like driving back into time in the old district and into one of the cars movie for a cruise night. The town's name is TUCUMCARI.

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes I went out there for one of my Oklahoma ghost town videos - No Man’s Land. I stayed in Tucumcari during my New Mexico Route 66 trip too! Both were very memorable!

    • @CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525
      @CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TravelwithaWiseguy thank you for doing and recording but I've only talked about. Now my trips all over this great country of ours date back over 20 years. Now more recently a five year ago till 10 years ago I traveled 15,000 mi around our country. But although I have a tens of thousands of pictures and a small amount of video I really hadn't thought about TH-cam. I have encouraged others for younger to do what you're doing. Then they can see that we're actually more like the different. Most people want a good life and even a better one for their children as they grow. The scenery is so diverse around our country. Absolutely magnificent even a flat planes of Kansas. After making my suggestions I noticed it you had already been there because I researched some of your videos. Although it's nicer to see in person it is more comfortable to see it from my recliner on your channel. Sounds like you might be a school teacher in Wichita. I'm not asking it's not my business I just kind of deduct that from your comment about traveling to various sports events and I think you said track and places like Oklahoma and Tulsa and it really wasn't that far from wichita. I can tell you of three other TH-camrs is that a pretty active in the old car section of TH-cam right there at and near Wichita. I'm not that old just right now things preclude me from further travels. Although pretty soon I will be around Wichita and some other places for business. Work is a four letter word but my family likes to eat. Thank you for making the videos and being so kind to respond to my comment. I'll share one other thing with you that you might find most interesting. You are at what I call Little Jerusalem in Oklahoma. I with my remaining family where we're driving away from the black Mesa and up to what I would call the back country of Southeast Colorado and we were exploring. We we're driving along the highway and we saw White cloud like entities with a somewhat human shape playing and running but only in the air alone highway with us for a number of minutes. And then there was a third one that appeared. And they seemed so full of joy and is rather peaceful. Terrorist had recently killed my first Barn son and my mother-in-law had died 6 weeks prior to my son's death. My mother had died barely a year prior to their deaths. So we like to think that was them visiting us telling us it was okay. Although that goes against some of my beliefs. Anyway whatever it was they were 5 to 20 ft off the ground at various times and they were 20 to 50 ft at most times away from us off the road. There were no trees for a while but they went right through the trees as they appeared. So take from that what you want regardless what these entities were they were something and not just wisp of smoke. It would be interesting to know if other people have seen these entities. We honestly can't be selfish and clean that they represented recently passed family members of Our own Eric okay taking that what you may. I grew up a country boy out in the woods work the farms and Floyd bouncing salmon and our military got a college degree train to become an army officer and it's an interesting thing while in the military. Also I've got enough hours if I had just concentrated those hours to have PhD in something. Not bragging I now live in simple life with the one exception and this one demonstrate hopefully that wasn't a half bubble off balance with that story of the entities. I wasn't the only one that's all that and I wasn't the only one to take pictures that may be thank you I'm enjoying your channel and there seems to be a lot to view and as the weather gets colder and more snow what have you I'll have more time to catch up on it. Safer to travel in the recliner roads during bad weather

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you so much for the nice comments and interesting stories! I am a track coach at Wichita State - so kind of a teacher haha. I am hoping to continue doing these videos in my free time. It’s been a lot of fun that started when we had things cancelled for Covid. I appreciate you watching my little videos!

    • @CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525
      @CAROLDDISCOVER-FINDER2525 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@TravelwithaWiseguy well that's great You are a teacher. Well she can somebody something for better or for worse. A coach teaches their team members track or whatever it might be how to play and preferably good sportsmanship. I don't care the worst kids there but it doesn't seem to pay attention eventually something will trigger in him and him remember what his coach said. Wichita is very interesting city. Here's two very unsavory items that will probably get you a lot of views but you may want to make sure you're avoiding them. Anyway take my word for it it's a long story but these people aren't my kind of folks. The first one is relatively close to home for you. It's in Northwest Arkansas . It is a short trip east of eureka springs Arkansas and he is so powerful that we're his town is actually at is about 30 minutes through the back roads from where it's shown on the maps. The town is a ghost town. One reason I mention it. The world headquarters of the knights of the klu Klux Klan ran by A fella by last name of Robb. Is what the original KKK was. Back around the late seventies to early 80s there was a split. Driving through there is an Erie experience! I only found it because of a couple of good old boys who were into the old car hobbies like me and I had one on the trailer. Another one is a Confederate memorial up on the high grounds east of Paducah Kentucky parrot it has a Confederate flag as big as any RV sales lot or Perkins restaurant American flags! It is probably funded and the guy has a peg for half a leg and rides a tricycle type motorcycle. We call him peg leg. About 5 years ago we stopped in there because I'd buying 57 Chevys from farther into Kentucky It's all on the way to Kentucky lakes. I'm just curious cuz I never seen anything like that. And other folks started congregating and well to another restless story we can talk about it. But he just figure I was one of them because my long hair ZZ top type Beard and they'll pick up I was driving. The other people worked quite so sure I could tell. The other people are right we were not of their type. He pointed over to the Northeast and said brother and I just cringed, we're having a marshmallow and hot dog roast this Friday or Saturday night whatever it was and he worked me into saying yes we would attend. Need elbows me on the side and said don't forget Macy's having a white sale! Be sure to bring yours. We got out of there and when we came back West I went 150 miles out on my way I think. All we did was stop to look at a tourist attraction see what it was about and we found out! Along the same lines south of the Missouri Arkansas line is a tent revival church. Which on his own is okay. Until you start looking at the rebellions and realize they are not desegregated. The last one is the world headquarters for the delinquents just north of Springfield on Old highway 71. That's a group that gets young white boys into their group and process them so they can join what they call the Aaron brotherhood that's actually Texas syndicate. Their organization stretch from the Mexican Texas border on to the Canadian border. Some funny things have happened all up and down what is now interstate 49 and on up to mound City north of Kansas City. They're not really funny. Our group is opposed to children being harmed. If you want to know more about any of that great if not that's fine. But those are some interesting items for we got stuck while we were exploring. Clinton Iowa's another one and surrounding area. Why would anybody go to Clinton Iowa well it has a rendering plant and a very pungent unique oder. Even at the Eisenhower museum there in Kansas there was an interesting circumstance. We never went back to see the museum. But I understand during regular operating hours it's pretty nice place to visit. We've been to several ghost towns in the West especially Southwest. We went to the Navajo Nation and that was a great experience with some interesting twist. If the fellow was part of city government he would be the city manager and not the city mayor. He took a liking to me and my boys and we Sean was best described as the back side of the Navajo Nation. That place is bigger than 10 of our smaller states. A wonder they often refer to as a nation and not a reservation. There are other circumstances to why we were given the VIP treatment. Which I can share but I'm getting way long in this. Just thought if I could spare you some of the pickups give you some ideas but man you got a lot of them. We definitely live in the greatest country on Earth

    • @georgesheffield1580
      @georgesheffield1580 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's a long way from black Mesa. Amarillo is closer as is Springfield or Boise City or Clayton .

  • @travis303
    @travis303 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Gas 1.99. That is cheap nowadays

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The good ole days! Haha

    • @sailingaeolus
      @sailingaeolus ปีที่แล้ว

      That's what happens when you shutdown pipelines. What you bet they're gonna-re-elect-um?

  • @chriscaldwell6540
    @chriscaldwell6540 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bro… do loud voice, loud music… or quiet voice and quiet music… do not do quiet voice, loud music.. volume was turned way up and then BAM

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  ปีที่แล้ว

      Haha yeah this was one of my first videos and there are a couple issues I’ve resolved since. One issue was the original music was copyrighted later so I had to edit it “within TH-cam” which isn’t ideal so it screws up the video. And part of it was I was totally new to making videos. I think my more recent videos are better in that regard.

  • @lewisaveryfiler7087
    @lewisaveryfiler7087 9 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Elvis did not write "Heartbreak Hotel" there, nor did he actually write "Heartbreak Hotel".

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  8 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Correct - I corrected that in the video description.

  • @anthonyarmstrong2091
    @anthonyarmstrong2091 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There is no glass to it . It’s the gloss mountains

  • @lisabrunson6157
    @lisabrunson6157 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Too bad you did not go to the real western Oklahoma. You missed some good things. Cheyenne,Oklahoma has a battle field know as the Battle of the Washita. Small towns dotting the landscape. You also missed Erick Oklahoma home of Roger Miller. You should give true western a better look. 😊

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’ve actually done several videos about western Oklahoma, even way out to Kenton - can’t get much further west than that 😂😂😂

  • @michaelburbank2276
    @michaelburbank2276 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    No mention of the selenite crystals at salt flats?, you keep skimming over details in all your travels! To vague, to brush off

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  4 วันที่ผ่านมา

      You’ve found one of the first videos I ever did haha. I was trying to figure out what to do. I’ve done a more recent video of the area if you’re interested.

  • @ProspectorsGhost
    @ProspectorsGhost 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Everything shown way too fast

    • @TravelwithaWiseguy
      @TravelwithaWiseguy  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don’t disagree. This was one of my first videos and I was trying to figure it out haha. My more recent videos are much better 😊