Wright House, Little House, and Big Spring

Our serendipity route took us from Oklahoma to Missouri today with a stop in Bartlesville, OK to see the only Frank Lloyd Wright high rise design ever built.

Intuition waits for us by the 66 sculpture

The 66 sign is by the same guy who did the Love sculpture with the slanted "o".  It is on Route 66 and the town has a major Phillips 66 petroleum research center.

The Rock House

Wilder House

The next stop was for Beth, at the Laura Ingles Wilder home and museum. It is where she wrote the "Little House on the Prairie" books and includes the house that her daughter had built for them. 

View from the Rock House

We're spending the night at Big Spring National Forest campground. We were worried about getting a spot on Saturday night and there are probably 50 sites open. Just found it on a map this afternoon. Arrived around 5:30 and pulled the bikes off the rack (we love our bike rack) and explored the park. Another CCC park, they are restoring the lodge and cabins. This is the lodge.

Biking a little further we found the BIG spring. Sounded like a waterfall coming off the cliff, but water is just bubbling from under the ground - at the rate of 288 million gallons a day! Another great "off the beaten path" find for navigator Beth.