Oklahoma

“Oklahoma City is actually very green,” my friend Venus told me over the phone a few days before I headed down there to visit.

Turns out that the color of the landscape would not be the only misconception I had that would be dispelled. Never having been to the Sooner State and having seen few images of it, everything I had imagined about Oklahoma and its capital was based on what I read in Grapes of Wrath, set in Great Depression times. Dusty, brown, impoverished, whatever. So cruising the streets of OKC was an eye-opening experience. Continue reading »