Well, we have finished Route 66! Can't quite believe it really. We did the Chicago to Oklahoma a few years ago and now have done Santa Monica to Oklahoma. It feels strange to have finished. I will miss it I think. It has been a simply wonderful experience. Here are a some photos from today.
This sign for the Cotton Boll Motel is one of the last surviving signs of its kind.
Here is a piece of moon rock that he collected. He was the pilot on one of the Apollo missions. How amazing.
These things have all actually been to the moon!
Just crossing over to another bit of Route 66 and saw this sign. Couldn't resist a photo. It made us laugh
This was the second amazing bridge we came across today. It is beside Lake Overholser and really very pretty. So glad it's been preserved.
Then we went straight to see Jerry McClanahan who wrote the EZ 66 guides which we had found so useful. He is an artist as well as a Route 66 enthusiast and we bought one of his water colours as a souvenir of our amazing trip,.
He also signed our certificate of completion of Route 66. There was a big map of the Route in his gallery. It seemed impossible that we had driven all that way. Albeit in two goes, but still....
Jerry also, very kindly, wrote in the guide exactly where the picture we had bought featured.
So, now in Oklahoma City on the day before Thanksgiving. Finished the Route and starting the next phase of our amazing retirement.
Because we had completed the drive, we thought we would buy a bottle of bubbly to celebrate. Went to a liquor place. It was HUGE and there were attendants in the car park directing people where to park. Astonishing. Still we now have a bottle chilling in the fridge in our hotel room.
Tomorrow we start the two day trip to Katy in Texas where we hope to buy our forever home. Will be keeping the blog going though.
Then of course we came across this museum. Stafford was an astronaut - the second one I've come across on this trip!
Here is a piece of moon rock that he collected. He was the pilot on one of the Apollo missions. How amazing.
These things have all actually been to the moon!
Just crossing over to another bit of Route 66 and saw this sign. Couldn't resist a photo. It made us laugh
This was the second amazing bridge we came across today. It is beside Lake Overholser and really very pretty. So glad it's been preserved.
Then we went straight to see Jerry McClanahan who wrote the EZ 66 guides which we had found so useful. He is an artist as well as a Route 66 enthusiast and we bought one of his water colours as a souvenir of our amazing trip,.
He also signed our certificate of completion of Route 66. There was a big map of the Route in his gallery. It seemed impossible that we had driven all that way. Albeit in two goes, but still....
So, now in Oklahoma City on the day before Thanksgiving. Finished the Route and starting the next phase of our amazing retirement.
Because we had completed the drive, we thought we would buy a bottle of bubbly to celebrate. Went to a liquor place. It was HUGE and there were attendants in the car park directing people where to park. Astonishing. Still we now have a bottle chilling in the fridge in our hotel room.
Tomorrow we start the two day trip to Katy in Texas where we hope to buy our forever home. Will be keeping the blog going though.
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