We did not have a laptop with us after all, so now I'll try to go back and re-create the trip.
Saturday, May 12, 2007: From Little Rock, AR, to Oklahoma City, OK, where we picked up Route 66 to Amarillo, TX
This stretch goes through a lot of farmland.
Our maps and directions on where to find and follow Route 66 weren't that great, so we did a lot of turning around on this day. We drove back and forth on one stretch of road three times before being able to figure out where Route 66 picked up on the other side of a highway that crossed it. It looked like some new road construction had taken place since our maps were printed, Good thing it was pretty here!
This is a 28-span bridge we crossed in Oklahoma, after driving around for a while looking for the road.
Windmills in Oklahoma, closing in on the Texas border. Both of the above photos were taken from a moving car. We had stopped a lot earlier, not realizing we would be eating up a lot of time getting lost. ;)
On this day, when we turned around on a side street one of the many times we couldn't find the road, a pack of barking dogs chased us back to the highway. Little did we know at the time, but packs of barking dogs would be a recurring theme on our trip.
Linda didn't get out of the car too much the first day, since she became convinced before we even started the trip that she would be bitten by a rattlesnake. We saw bees, packs of dogs, a couple roadrunners, one antelope, and a slew of farm animals, but no rattlesnakes. In fact, the only snakes we ever saw were smooshed ones in the road.
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