State 5 on Route 66 – Texas. We traveled through the Texas panhandle to Amarillo. Just an hour outside of Amarillo is Palo Duro Canyon, proclaimed to be the second largest canyon behind the Grand Canyon. It has a great loop road that allows you to drive through the bottom of the canyon – plenty…
Month: April 2019
Route 66 – National Museum
We HAD to visit the National Route 66 Museum in Elk City Oklahoma. It includes a set of tableaux’s representing each state along the route. The museum is part of a nice complex including: a Transportation Museum covering the history of the road; the Old Town museum , a town square from the early 1900’s’;…
Route 66 – Oklahoma City
While not a traditional stop on Route 66, the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum – the site of the 1995 Oklahoma city bombing – is a must do. As you enter the space, the first thing you see is a reflecting pool where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building stood. The entrance at one…
Route 66 – Kansas and Oklahoma
States 3 and 4 on Route 66 (west bound) are Kansas and Oklahoma. The time in Kansas is short – only 13 miles – but we still had a few photo ops, like the Rainbow Bridge near Baxter Springs, and a mural in Galena. In Claremore, Oklahoma we made it to the Will Rogers Memorial…