Thursday, April 16, 2009

Route 66 Road Trip






Archie and I took a Route 66 Road Trip Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. We began in Joplin, Missouri, and stopped in Elk City, Oklahoma. It was great fun - kind of like a scavenger hunt. We had to interpret poor maps, vague directions and almost zero signage, but we made it. We saw lots of old gas stations/stores and old motels/motor courts. Believe it or not, some of the original paved road is only 9' wide - in 1926, when the road opened, most of it was not paved.

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