I agree!

I think everywhere is beautiful in it's own way. From the flat lands of the US to the green hills of Ireland. It's the same with people. If you have eyes to see, you can find beauty everywhere. God does good work.

In Boise City is a nice clean motel run by some folks from India , you can smell the good food cooking .

As someone from North Georgia, I find the vast openness unsettling. I need mountains, hills and ridges to dot the landscape around me or I feel exposed for some reason. I can’t explain why and I know it sounds silly… but that’s how it is

There's a lot of beauty to it. I am from India which is much more densely populated and I love seeing empty vast open lands like these, full of nothingness as far as you can see.

I walked around your town as an epic thunderstorm brewed. Never seen such a pretty and fierce storm but it felt like a normal day for the panhandle.

I would love to visit your Country...always found fascinating...My Father was there much, during WWII...He enjoyed, did many drawings/sketches while there

You guys are far from civilisation in a different way

Of course there's no graffiti...there's no blacks. Paradise.

Totally agree, Kelsey.

Yes. I've lived in South Central Oklahoma just north of lake Texoma. Western Oklahoma off I-40 and the Texas state line. And OKC area now. Used to go to Pryor Oklahoma northeastern Oklahoma every year. And deep into the kiamichi mountains in Southeastern Oklahoma. It's all different.

My home state of Oregon has a much more unique and diverse geography. Oceans, lakes, big rivers, mountains, deserts, vast forests. I found Oklahoma to be devoid of geographic interest. I've driven thru the panhandle several times on the way to Tucumcari, NM.

I'm eventually going to do a Black Mesa video. I think it deserves that. :)

check out the night skys near aspen colorado

I took my boys thru BC in 1986 on the way to WY & MT. We stayed at the American. Is it still there? They were so nice to us for our 2 weeks there. Did you know Bob (Bunk) & Mildred Robinson? They took us in & were so kind to us. We also became friends with the Meister family as well. Their boys were the same age as ours. Did you know RB & Pat Mathis at FBC? They moved to Cordell. We stayed a week at Black Mesa SP & helped with the Bible school in Wheeless. I loved Kenton & wanted to retire there but that didn’t happen. Met the Prather family who ran the General Store there. We finally retired to near Altus. So we aren’t far from from Cordell. I really loved that little town & like you said, the people there are so friendly & helpful.

Yeah, me too. It was interesting, and beautiful in it's own way.

LOL, the accent just won't go away. :)

That's correct. If possible median income would be much more indicative of how much money most people make as opposed to the average income or per capita income which allow a few really large landowners to skew the numbers somewhat.

Yes..Hooker has a great Carshow every year, get cars from 5 states !

Very cool! Thanks, David. :)

Awesome! Glad you're here. :)

And actually a pretty nice change of landscape from the endless plains that is the rest of the pan handle.

Supposedly, the easiest way to get to the highest elevation point on Black Mesa is through New Mexico. You can drive to within just a few hundred feet or so of that high point by going that way. But you have to cross private land to get there, so nobody but connected people can do that.

The Black Mesa area is amazing, especially at night!

@@jenniferswaim2751 I'm sure it is that night with all of the brilliant stars in the sky over black mesa.

@@hummingbird275 What are you babbling about?

Seaboard drives up the cost.

That's what I like to hear! 👍😀

Thank you for the kind words. :)

Thanks! :)

Ponca City is where I live now also

I'm from California but I have at least one hundred cousins that live in Ponca city. My Great grandfather and Great grandmother are buried there. They had ten children.

I drove through Shattuck! Stopped at that Indian themed convenience store. That is an interesting looking town. :)

Do it! You'll never regret jt.

Yes. They robbed banks in Louisiana Texas Oklahoma Missouri Kansas and maybe a couple others. I know they also murdered a couple police officers in Oklahoma as well.

@@thebigokie6.4_392 when I was a child they brought Clyde and Bonnie Barrow car through our hometown, the one they were killed beside and in. I remember it was riddled with bullets, and blood stains was still on the seats. This was in around 1967 only around 30 some years after they were killed !

We will be. And we'll visit Hooker. :)

I totally agree.

The eastern half of Oklahoma is rolling hills and mountains filled with forests. Lake Tenkiller is still one of the best lakes of the state. The panhandle though... I think most left for Texas.

I’ll have to stay there next time I’m passing through. Usually 3 or 4 times a year. I like to ride the back roads of Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas

Good to know.

Those hills are quite nice. On my bucket list is Black Mesa State Park, just North of Wheeless, at the Western end of the Panhandle. Oklahoma is full of unexpected gems.

Thanks, Russ!

Thank you for the kind words. :)

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip your welcome. will watch more videos after work.

That is awesome. :)

Thank you for the kind words, Billy! :)

I'll be doing a separate Black Mesa/Kenton video this fall. I'll check out that bomb site in Boise City then. In this video, I was just passing through.

The story I was told is Air force was practicing bomb runs at night and the target was lit up like a box. The run was off course and seen the four lights of the city square thinking that was the target. Bomb away

I enjoy your videos, keep up the great work.

I visited kenton after visiting my hometown after my family moved a decade ago and the mercantile was not open, I think the population there is actually down to only about 3 people now from the research I've done. I could still be wrong tho!

@@deadlychicken915 nope the population is less than 50 but I couldnt believe it when i crossed the base of Black Mesa that the time changed back an hour 😂 i had incredible times traveling all the oklahoma panhandle and it is interesting how every small town has its own character

Not quite, a B-17 dropped bombs on an ice dam up in Montana by Miles City during the war to stop flooding.

I will be. I'm going to visit Kenton/Black Mesa soon. They will get their own video.

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip yessssss I cannot wait!

@@jamess7576 Did you not read the part where it said accidentally and it was the only city it was on the Sunday And everybody was in church It did not detonate it was a dummy and still stuck in the ground at the square by the courthouse It was foggy that morning and I thought the light at the courthouse was where they was supposed to drop in Research before commenting and learn how to read

@@robertdahle7216 That isn't how I read it. The accidentally being in parenthesis means the accidentally is an aside not a qualifier or condition. If the writer meant the only accidental bombing then they should have wrote the only bomb to drop accidently on the ... rather than the only bomb that dropped on the ... (accidentally). Regardless, it really shouldn't be a matter to get ones undies in a twist. It isn't a big deal and I was mainly writing to bring attention to a pretty crazy, interesting event at Miles City. It is worth looking up, and is history worth remembering.

,my dad was from slapout. And we moved to guymon before I was born. Lived there 17 years

Was waiting for a comment from him about Slapout!

I agree and would had liked him to video and talk about Boise City.

I was absent a couple years and went into the old K Bobs and a rancher I had worked on a well on his place was there with his arm in a sling. I knew he raised Angus so I asked if he had bought some Charolais cattle. He laughed and laughed. Sure enough he had bought some half Charolais heifers and one chased him up the corral fence. She didn't get him but he slipped falling with his arm under him. It was like seeing your own kinfolk. Huddleston. Great people.

That was literally the purpose of this video - a drive through the panhandle. Nothing else. It's in the title. It was never a "explore every corner of the panhandle" video. That all being said, I will be doing videos of many of the places you listed in time.

Fella 😊

Yeah, me too. I was excited to drive through it. :)

@@mirandafleming5776 I'm sure what video could possibly show everything....