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Lawton Snapshots

Still there.

Fluffy's. It's across the street from Wok 'n Roll.

Sleepy's

After three visits to Sleepy's over the past week I've finally figured it out. It's not a store. Well, not a real store. It's like Collector's Corner in SB. It's a place with a bunch of stuff belonging to someone that they keep in a storefront/storebuilding and they open it, apparently, once in a while whenever they want but not very often. It's not an antique store, of course, it's seemingly a store for old billiard tables, jukeboxes and pinball machines. And other stuff in glass counters, I think. But it's not clear what that is from the front window. So one might conclude that, much like CC, its name is well suited for its real purpose.

Lawton Excitement

The weekend brings many opportunities to explore the greater Lawton area. Devoted readers may have already picked up the subtle hints in earlier posts about Lawton area museums. So, of course, weekend opportunities in Lawton bring museo excitement. I mean, when it's the only excitement around ya gotta go with it.

But first, out of nowhere, on the way to the Museo of the Great Plains, there were crowds and police and helicopters and...

...and what, exactly? Well, your humble blogger attempted to find out by speaking to an EMT who was standing in a group of policemen and suchlike. His explanation was somewhat less than illuminating, which is to say "it has something to do with kids getting used to emergency responders." The "event" is apparently put on by "law enforcement agencies" and people come to it...but I'm still not really sure why.

So, with that completed, I headed across the park to the Museum of the Great Plains. But since it charges an admission fee I blew it off and went straight to the adjacent Comanche National Museo Etc., which is free:

Some interesting displays in this museo which presented facts about tribal life and war codetalkers, but don't go thinkin' they're tellin' ya everything. No way:

And there was white buffalo statue (aka static display?) outside next to an engraved stone with stuff about Chief Ten Bears:

So then it was time for another museum! In this case, it was the Fort Sill Museum. It presented the history of Fort Sill. Which was a little bit interesting, I guess, but not worth many pictures.

The bored-looking dude at the front asked if I wanted a map to Geronimo's grave. Well, well, well. Why not?

I found it five miles east of the main post, still on the fort, and clearly within earshot of hot small arms qualification ranges. They have basic training at Fort Sill, you know.

The Winds of Oklahoma

It was a hot, windy, dry evening on a friend's ranchette last night. He served local catered BBQ (delicious) and showed us his horses. Wonderful weather to gather outside. On the way home I was treated to an evening view of the majestic Wichita Mountains from across the Oklahoma prairie.

Then today, finally, my first chance to go to the museo. The first, museo, actually as my inquiries have established that there are a total of six in the Lawton area. Devoted readers of this blog are already aware of the US Army Artillery museo and its static displays:

Captured German artillery pieces from WWII.

A real Gatling Gun. I'll bet Al would love to have one of these.

So what other museos will there be? Will your H.B. get to them all? 

Ramble Flashback

Bangkok, 2004. Apparently Raja's has grown to become somewhat famous since this was taken. See: http://www.rajasfashions.com/awards.php and http://www.rajastailors.com/index.html

Lawton

Yet Another Ramble to Lawton

Departure: Schloss Tanglewald, Leavenworth, Kansas...

The Flint Hills: Halfway between Kansas City and Wichita...

Refueling: Cassoday, KS...

Did your h.b. make it to Lawton? To be continued...