venture
08-04-2011, 12:44 AM
Just a reporter, no one major, but the Lost Ogle posted a link to her blog. Coming from Cincy, she posted her thoughts coming to OKC for the first time. Can't say I really like them as it seemed she got off the plane in Alva (or someplace out in BFE) instead of OKC.
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http://zipokc.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/why-oklahoma/#more-19
Why Oklahoma??
I get asked that question a lot.
The first time I saw Oklahoma City, the temperatures that June day hit 103 degrees. I walked outside the terminal at Will Rodgers Airport with an overnight bag and a pair of sunglasses. Outside the airport’s sliding doors, the dusty prairie greeted me. Flat. Tan. Small trees.Tumbleweed. Sunshine.
Something inside me clicked, and it wasn’t just the rumbles in my stomach from the hastily eaten lunch at a diner in the middle of Atlanta’s Hartsfield/Jackson Airport. It wasn’t the nervous jitters from a job interview that began the moment I stepped off the plane.
Suddenly, I got it. I knew why hundreds of folks packed their bags and loaded up wagons to head West during the land grabs of the 1890s. I saw what had driven them to stake a homestead in a land settled last during the great age of manifest destiny.
Wide open spaces. Room to make a big mistake.
I’ll be 30 in 7 months. I’m married to a world traveling Air Force man, and we don’t have kids. If I was going to do something drastic, like move across the country for a job, then I was going to do it now. Oklahoma City is 856 miles by way of St. Louis from Cincinnati. It’s roughly a three hour plane ride and on Central Standard time. Lots of people live in the metro, but drive 40 minutes in any direction and you find yourself part of the Great American Desert. Oil, natural gas, and agribusiness are big kings here.
I don’t know anyone in OKC, except for the few people I’ve met at my new job.
This is going to be an adventure. And it starts, now.
Granted I understand the "Great American Desert" is a term used to describe a large portion of the country, but usually it is mainly far western Oklahoma and back to the west. Eh, minor things. Hopefully she gets to learn more about the state and the fact that we aren't some flat, desert area in the middle of fly over country.
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http://zipokc.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/why-oklahoma/#more-19
Why Oklahoma??
I get asked that question a lot.
The first time I saw Oklahoma City, the temperatures that June day hit 103 degrees. I walked outside the terminal at Will Rodgers Airport with an overnight bag and a pair of sunglasses. Outside the airport’s sliding doors, the dusty prairie greeted me. Flat. Tan. Small trees.Tumbleweed. Sunshine.
Something inside me clicked, and it wasn’t just the rumbles in my stomach from the hastily eaten lunch at a diner in the middle of Atlanta’s Hartsfield/Jackson Airport. It wasn’t the nervous jitters from a job interview that began the moment I stepped off the plane.
Suddenly, I got it. I knew why hundreds of folks packed their bags and loaded up wagons to head West during the land grabs of the 1890s. I saw what had driven them to stake a homestead in a land settled last during the great age of manifest destiny.
Wide open spaces. Room to make a big mistake.
I’ll be 30 in 7 months. I’m married to a world traveling Air Force man, and we don’t have kids. If I was going to do something drastic, like move across the country for a job, then I was going to do it now. Oklahoma City is 856 miles by way of St. Louis from Cincinnati. It’s roughly a three hour plane ride and on Central Standard time. Lots of people live in the metro, but drive 40 minutes in any direction and you find yourself part of the Great American Desert. Oil, natural gas, and agribusiness are big kings here.
I don’t know anyone in OKC, except for the few people I’ve met at my new job.
This is going to be an adventure. And it starts, now.
Granted I understand the "Great American Desert" is a term used to describe a large portion of the country, but usually it is mainly far western Oklahoma and back to the west. Eh, minor things. Hopefully she gets to learn more about the state and the fact that we aren't some flat, desert area in the middle of fly over country.