Category: Route 66
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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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Route 66 Day 18: Wait….What?
Today we left Albuquerque and headed west continuing our Route 66 Trip through New Mexico. The landscape shifted outside the window between grassland, shrubs, trees, lava fields…… Wait, what? Lava Fields? Yup, we drove by the McCarty lava field today- it was striking. Apparently, these are the youngest and longest lava flows on the continent. Some of…
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Route 66 Day 19: Say Ah…..
For the first time since Illinois, back when we first started off on our journey, we had rain last night. We didn’t hear it, but this morning the misty clouds hung low and covered the horizon. It was quite pretty, and a nice change to the usual clear blue skies. We stepped outside in the…
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Route 66 Day 20: Takin’ It Easy
We enjoyed the Petrified Forest National Park so much, we decided to get up early this morning and be at the park when it opened, to catch early morning star shine on the rock formations. The difference of the early morning light, with coolness in the air, truly did make the colors pop and we…
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