OKLAHOMA ~ 250 Miles – The Hard Way

There can be no finer guide to Oklahoma back roads than my brother Will, who’s spent decades tromping its wetlands looking for ducks to shoot or fishing its lakes for flathead catfish and smallmouth bass.  I wasn't sure I could get him on a bike:  he and his hunting dog Buddy seemed happy spending hours roaming the 80 acres Will recently bought near Weatherford, together ruminating on plans to dig, build, clear, mow, garden, weed, prune, plant, level, and buttress, as swooning hawks circled over them.

 

We’d wanted to bike across Oklahoma ever since we’d read there were a group of athletic young folks who do it annually, riding south to north with the wind at their backs.