@CalamityJane,
But it's a trap. CJ !
After spending three years in Scorched Earth, West Texas, I drove North (suddenly free of the US military), and you're so right, Oklahoma City is a bland set of brown and beige buildings, but TULSA(!), Tulsa was an island of green, sudden and fresh to my eyes!
(and this was in February).
I stopped to visit friends, one offered me a job for the summer, I took it.
I stayed twenty-five years.
Eva forgot to mention that, interspersed by some of the dumbest people on the planet, Tulsans are the biggest hearted, most loyal, most creative, most endearing folks a human could ever hope to know.
I think they were holding me for a ransom never paid.
Or maybe
(what an ego) they got paid,
Joe(and sent it back)Nation