Sunday, 29 March

We got up and had breakfast with Rich and Linda but ended up talking for longer than we’d planned.  It was Palm Sunday, but at 8:45, they were headed for Bible study and worship and we hit the road headed west (maybe we should have stayed….).

The western half of OK was a little more difficult to navigate.  On the eastern half, the Old 66 followed the railroad and the new I-40 Interstate followed it.  After OK City, the railroad wasn’t so close and the Interstate seemed to cut across the old road a LOT so it cost us a bunch of time (and miles) going around interchanges or cutting across overpasses to get from frontage roads on one side of the interstate to the other.

You can see the old route in the distance and and I-40 cuts across it two places in between.....

Navigating with 2 GPS's, 2 Route 66 Travel guides and a Route 66 Map for Oklahoma and also the official state map.  They're all different!

There are two nationally renowned Route 66 museums in Oklahoma.   Since it was Sunday we missed both the OK Route 66 Museum in Clinton,  and also the National Route 66 Museum in Elk City.  (Maybe we can catch them on the next trip….)

After we got into Texas, we seemed to be able to make better progress.  We were headed for Amarillo  late in the afternoon and decided to take it easy for a day or two.  A friend from home who grew up in area recommended that we check out the Palo Duro Canyon State Park, south of Amarillo.   It claims to be the best state park in the nation and it’s canyon is 2^nd only to the Grand Canyon.

We’re camped there for the night and will verify it’s claim to fame tomorrow…..

A long day and we deserve a rest.