Believe it or not, Twister — the 1996 blockbuster that gave us flying cows, storm-chasing sex appeal, and maybe the most Oklahoma energy ever captured on film — is almost thirty years old.
In the tiny town of Wakita, where much of it was filmed, the Twister Movie Museum at 101 W. Main Street still stands as a nostalgic, hand-built tribute to Oklahoma chaos and the cult of Gary England.
Despite three decades of the museum's regional fandom, I’d never made the pilgrimage. But with a rough few years of health in my rear-view and a new marriage that put some literal wind back in my sails, my wife and I hit the backroads to Wakita for a museum adventure.
Once we got north past Enid—a fancy little town that I would like to visit someday—the rest of the way to Wakita is down farm-roads, back-roads and, surprisingly, dirt-roads until a handmade sign welcomes travelers to the city limits.