Seeking Beauty on Roads Less Traveled

If someone asked me to comment about Tulsa, say. a week ago, I would have said, "Why?"   As a native New Yorker who had never even been to Oklahoma before I would have nothing of merit to add to a conversation about Tulsa.  I know that Tulsa is in Oklahoma. You can look at a map and find that out.  You don't need me to tell you.  I will also say that I never thought I'd be writing a sentence, let alone a whole story that included the word Tulsa.  I guess now is also the time to admit that although I do know where Oklahoma is, I did need to take out the in-flight magazine to see that Tulsa sits in the northeastern portion of the state.  I am also guilty of a visual picture of Tulsa that solely included tumbleweeds and old oil rigs...and that's it.  And yet, I am excited about going to Tulsa for one big reason...I have never been before. Why is it that I seem to be the only one excited to be going to Tulsa?  I'll only be there for a day and yet everytime I say