Day 1--PDX to TX/ OK

Got about 3-4 hours of sleep last night. Dad took us to the PDX airport to catch our 6:15am flight to Salt Lake City. I slept the whole way and Mom dozed a bit. Had a 1 hour 15 minutes layover and caught the 10:15 am flight to DFW. I was awake this time and mom dozed. Got our bags and took the rental car shuttle to pick up our car. Made it out to Hertz at about 2:30 and picked up a Mercury Sable with just 800 miles on it. Powered up the GPSr and spiraled our way into “Smack the Ground (GC15B4 virtual). The site was cool because they had a radio feed from the flight control tower. The planes heading to one of the runways came right by too. Got the required info and will email the owner to log the cache. Down the road a bit to another cache, “Harrington’s Hollow” (GCA9D2 traditional). Walked across the park of dead grass in the intense heat. The GPSr kept pointing us into a “dry” creek bed. The path down was steep and I was wearing flip-flops, so Mom took the lead while I looked around up above. The GPSr led her through the creek bed and up to her ankles in mud, then pointed her back out of the creek bed. I finally spotted the cache and left yet another PEZ. Back to the car and on the road north again. One more cache to do in the Dallas area, this time near the Grapevine Mills Mall. We decided to stop at the Outdoor Store/ Bass Pro Shop just cuz. It was neat. I bet Ray, Ralph, & Daniel would have a blast and could spend plenty of money there. Went to What-a-Burger for a quick meal, then off to find “Grapevine Mills- Drive In Shopping Cache” (GCJPY8 traditional). The cache was supposed to be in an ammo can, but when we found it, it was in a Tupperware container. We decided it was a “redneck ammo can.” Continued on through traffic, made a few stops at Toys R Us to try to find some key chain PEZ for a travel bug, but to no avail. Continued north and finally arrived in Durant in the evening. Stayed with Grandma, Grandpa, and Foy while we were in Durant.