Gettin' Our Kicks on Route 66

Wednesday, October 19

We left Canyon, Texas this morning and continued our drive along old Route 66.  What a fun time.  When we left Canyon, we checked our navigation and it indicated four and a half hours to Chickasha, Oklahoma, our destination.  After being on the road for 4 hours we checked the navigation again and it said three and a half hours to Chickasha!  Do the math ~ it doesn’t add up!  There was just so much to see along old Route 66 that we didn’t seem to be making much progress.

Old  Route 66 parallels Interstate 40 through most of the Texas Panhandle and into Oklahoma.  At the Texas Visitor Center we were given information on many sites to see along the route.  Unfortunately after the development of Interstate 40 many of the small towns along Route 66 went under.  In its hay day Route 66 was the most famous east - west highway in the United States maybe even the world. 

Cruise along with us on old Route 66 from Amarillo, Texas to the Oklahoma state line  ~

In Groom Texas we saw
the second largest cross in the Northern Hemisphere


A man named Steve Thomas said he was inspired by the Lord to do something ~ his wife Bobby came up with the idea of a cross.

It has grown over the years now and more has been added.







              Groom:  the leaning tower








Alanreed: oldest church

                                    Alanreed:  oldest cemetery

McLean:  Red River Steak House

                  McLean:  Devil's Rope Museum; A Tribute to Barbed Wire

McLean
WWII POW Camp Historical Marker

McLean: First Phillips 66 Station built in Texas

                           









McLean:   First and only Ten Commandments Monument

McLean:   Texaco ~ "trust your car to the man who wears the star"                


                                                    



           McLean: The Avalon Theater

Shamrock:   the U Drop Inn

   

We stopped at the Old Route 66 Museum in Elk City, Oklahoma

always wanted to ride in a pink cadillac

John cruisin'

at the drive-in

After being on the road for eight hours we arrived at John’s cousins in Chickasha, Oklahoma.

and the gang was all there to meet us ~ Ava, Mica, Terri, Wyatt, Auto & Krista

Yee hah!