Day 43 Tulsa, Oklahoma

It was a pleasant drive through the rolling hills of Arkansas to Tulsa. The first thing we did was head over to the Gilcrease Museum and wandered around. The Gilcrease houses the world's largest, most comprehensive collection of art of the American West. It has a bunch of Bierstadt's, Remington's (18 of his 22 bronzes), Catlin's, Moran's and many others. If you're into Cowboys and Indians, this is the place. It's just a terrific museum and well worth the trip.We checked into a newly renovated downtown twenty story la-te-da boutique hotel called the Mayo.  Downtown Tulsa is undergoing a revitalization and in a few more years should be pretty great. Its many 30 and 40 story buildings are architecturally ornate and hopefully restoreable. We walked the downtown and didn't find much at all to do, but we did manage to locate James E. McNellie's, a good old Irish Pub with 75 beers on draught and 500 in the bottle...not a bad stop. We were going to have dinner at whatever was suppose to be the "Best Steakhouse in Tulsa", but we stopped in Trulas, the hotel restaurant, and met the chef who just left the Willard in DC to start up this place. For dinner Sylvia had Pork Belly and I ordered a NY Strip. The sides were very good as were the meats. We'll be heading to Wichita, Kansas tomorrow and I guess I'll have to try their steak too. I sure would like a good old bowl of pasta.