The Capitol was under renovation. I might come back one day to see it when it's fully renovated. On Saturday, March 7 I began my tour at the Henry Overholser Mansion, followed by the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the Myriad Gardens, The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and finally the Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help:
On Sunday March 8 I drove to Tulsa, stopping at this Soda-Pop-Coke store right outside of OKC:
Once I got to Tulsa I visited the Philbrook Museum of Art and the Oklahoma Aquarium:
On Monday, March 9 I visited the Tulsa Art Deco Museum and the Cathedral of the Holy Family before driving to Jefferson City:
On my way to Jefferson City, I took a short detour to see this tri-state area:
After driving for a while in Missouri I found this Candy Store in Phillipsburg (Redmon's Candy Factory) and the largest gift store in the world, so I thought I'd take a look:
On Tuesday, March 10 I visited the Missouri State Capitol, the Governor's Mansion, and Saint Peter's Catholic Church. All of these places were at a walking distance from each other and from my hotel:
I drove to Saint Louis right after that, checked in to my hotel and visited the place that made me drive all the way up there. This is probably the most beautiful church in the US, and surely among the most beautiful churches in the world, the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis:
As there's no Whataburger and there was only one Shake Shack nearby, I decided to try Culver's before getting an oil change:
On Wednesday, March 11 I visited the Arch and the Saint Louis Art Museum:
On Thursday, March 12 I visited the Fox Theatre in the morning:
In the afternoon I drove to Little Rock on my way back to Texas and this was my view from the hotel window:
Everything had been going fine until I decided to visit the Arkansas State Capitol on Friday, March 13. The guard told me that the capitol was closed for visits until further notice, he did not seem to know if or when it would be open again so I left:
Before driving to Fort Worth, I was allowed to visit the Cathedral of Saint Andrew in Little Rock:
As I drove to Fort Worth I stopped at the Texas Visitors Center in Texarkana:
My first unpleasant surprise came when I saw this sign at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth:
On Saturday March 14 I visited Saint Patrick's Cathedral before driving to Austin:
Based on what I saw online, I knew that art museums in Austin and San Antonio were closed, so I considered skipping those two cities and heading back to Odessa based on what I saw online. I still decided to go to Austin as my parents (who live in Mexico) were at a meeting in Austin. Saint Mary Catholic Cathedral in Austin was still open. It was the last place where I was able to go to mass before churches started masses online:
On that day I also found out that school would be cancelled at least until March 27.
As I was sharing a hotel room with my parents, we went out for dinner that night
On Sunday March 15 I said goodbye to my parents, not surely knowing if I will see them again or not, at least for a while. As I drove back to Odessa, these are some of the pictures that I took:
Going to Germany at the end of May and then going home to Mexico at the end of June is looking increasingly unlikely (still not impossible, especially going home to Mexico for a month or so). I'm not sure when this health crisis will end, but I hope that we get to end this sooner rather than later. It was not the trip that I had originally planned, but despite some museum closures in the last two days, this was an awesome trip. My thoughts an prayers for those most affected by this.
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