Discover Yourself Through Travel
My morning in Tulsa had been intense, eventful, and brutally educational. I started my morning at Greenwood Rising where I learned about that 40 city blocks in a thriving Black community were destroyed. You cannot imagine what that looks like. You must stand on the earth where it happened to get a sense of the […]
I’d finished my tour of Greenwood Rising, but I wasn’t finished with Greenwood. The hours I spent in the museum still weighed on me. I thought about the victims, and the landscape, and how it looked today. I knew I would want to walk around the area, view the remains and reminders, and I wanted […]
Tulsa is about a 90 minute drive from Oklahoma City. I had originally planned to do all of my exploring in the city and to use public transportation as much as possible. It’s how I get to know and understand a new city. But I was close to Tulsa and decided to rent a car […]
April 19, 1995: it was a day like any other. A visit to the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum was a necessity for my 25th breast Cancerversary. I remember watching the news coverage, not really understanding what had happened, thinking the explosion was some type of tragic error. Only learning later that it was the […]