What a pleasure when someone else takes the wheel! The large windows and comfortable seats let us enjoy the view. And what a view! The French word “bouleversant” is appropriate. That means, it “flips” you over!
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| At every stop there were beautiful cars that made us smile. |
I thought I remembered the rolling prairies, large farms, and endless parade of wooden telephone polls that connect the remote communities. But as we traversed the heartland of America, I discovered my memories were too small. This is a stirring landscape that reaches out to be embraced by a big sky.
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| Sometimes silly but also iconic! |
Where Historic Route 66 ran straight, it became modern Interstate 44. Where it meandered, it often became the highway’s frontage road.
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| Burma shave! These ads along the roadside would be spaced out so that as you drove along, you could read the often amusing rhymes. |
Elk City’s National Route 66 & Transportation Museum displayed the first Burma Shave signs I’d seen since my youth.
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| “Take me out to the ballgame.” |
Oklahoma City’s Bricktown : Nice! We took a peep through the chain-link fence of the Micky Mantel Stadium. The memorable ticket man at the gate bid us enter, took our photo, then surprised us with complimentary baseball caps!
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| The memorial in Oklahoma City |
We stood in respectful silence at the National Memorial for the victims, survivors, and rescuers of the Oklahoma City bombing. It was evocative and sobering.
In Amarillo, Texas, just after sunrise, we added tags to the funkadelic line of cars at Cadillac Ranch.
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| Cadillacs! |
Albuquerque, New Mexico stole our hearts with its cool “any town USA” neighborhoods where so many films and series are filmed. Best of all, were the authentic southwest Pueblo buildings at the old town center.
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| Old Town Albuquerque |
The Road is lined with so much history. We want to see as much of it as possible.
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