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Route 66 Day 8: The Star of The Show
We spent the night in Miami (pronounced My-am-uh), Oklahoma. When we arrived we drove through the main part of town and saw a beautiful building that really stood out among the others on the main street. We learned it was the Coleman Theatre Beautiful. We were happy to see they offered tours, and before hitting…
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Route 66 Day 9: Signs, Signs, Everywhere A Sign
We decided to get an earlier start to our travel today, which allowed us to take in a brilliant sunrise in Catoosa OK. As we headed out, we didn’t really know where we would “land” today. Today turned out to be a day of signs- literally. We passed so many old Route 66 business signs,…
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Route 66 Day 10: See You Sooners
We decided to spend an extra day in Oklahoma City. One of the places we wanted to visit was the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum. On the eve of September 11, it seemed appropriate to visit this memorial and remember the 168 victims of the Alfred P Murrah Building bombing. The memorial is so…
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Route 66 Day 11: Blowin’ In The Wind
Day 11 dawned with a cool breeze in Oklahoma City. Before we left, we wanted to take in a few more sites in Oklahoma’s State Capitol. The Gold Dome was built in 1958, and is currently undergoing renovations to turn it into a performance venue. We love this Milk Bottle Grocery; the store was built…
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Route 66 Day 12: Small Towns Big Hearts
Today was another brilliant blue skied day in Oklahoma. We left the windy city of Weatherford, serenaded by wind farms that created a landscape of such uniqueness, our cameras really could not do it justice. We passed through several small towns today. The one similarity they shared, is they all seemed to have once vibrant…
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Route 66 Day 13: Who Knew?
Today we left Shamrock, heading to Amarillo Texas. The temperatures were a welcome 70 degrees and we relished it for a few hours until it climbed back into the 90’s. We passed some beautiful fields…I’m pretty sure this is the photo that goes under the definition: “Amber Waves of Grain”. The artwork on the side…
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Route 66 Day 14: I’ll Meet You Halfway
Today was a milestone for our trip. It is day 14 and we arrived at the halfway point of our Route 66 adventure. Here is a photo of us in Adrian, Texas. Moving on from the halfway point, we travelled through the rest of the Texas panhandle. The wind farms faded into the horizon and…
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Route 66 Day 15: Vegas Baby!
After a restful nights sleep at the Blue Swallow, we set up the GPS and headed out to travel the pre 1937 alignment of Route 66. That meant…..we are going to Vegas!!!! Las Vegas, New Mexico that is. This is not your Nevada Vegas. Let’s compare some of the characteristics of traveling to Nevada LV…
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Route 66 Day 16: The Wild Life
We started our travel this morning with a trip to the Las Vegas New Mexico National Wildlife Refuge. We found it to be a beautiful and strikingly different environment than what we are used to on the East Coast. As we walked out to an observation platform, a blue heron flew by. These are one…
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Route 66 Day 17: Taking the High Road
A cool clear morning greeted us as we left Santa Fe heading for……well, we weren’t sure! We planned for today to be a short travel day as either of our destinations were only an hour or so away. We saw Cibola National Forest was not far from our route, and we decided to drive the…
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