I re-learned several powerful things on Saturday.

First, it is amazing how wound up kids are when you pick them up from FFA Alumni Camp.  It is very common for first time attendees to run up and say, “Thanks for making me attend this.”  Or “This was the best 3 days of my life!”

Second, Tulsa has to be the worst city in the US to drive through.  None of the major highways/interstates run on a normal track.  The interchanges for various highway intersections lie on curves and in other bad locations.  It’s like they gave a monkey a box of crayons and let him draw the lines without a ruler.  Then they just connected all the lines to make for intersections.  I feel like the engineer who designed the Tulsa area highways must have barely passed industrial engineering but knew somebody in order to get the job.  Driving through that city will make you want to throat punch somebody before you get out of town.

Next, throw in the fact that driving on the Cimarron Turnpike will physically abuse you.  That is a rough piece of road that you get the thrill of paying to drive on.  That piece of road will knock the fillings out of your teeth.