We’ve made it into Oklahoma, where we stopped at the first exit and had a picnic lunch. The visitor center was very nice and modern, with clean restrooms. The weather had cleared up almost completely, so the picnic was very enjoyable. The kids played in the grass and even got to feed some horses over [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Oklahoma, O.K!
Jul 22
Biggest Cross
Jul 22
We just passed by the “Largest Cross in the Western Hemisphere.”
Heading to Oklahoma City
Jul 22
We are passing through the small panhandle of Texas, having spent the night in the small town of Vega in our favored Comfort Inn. The morning weather today is rainy, but they seem to be glad for it in Texas. Amarillo is the only big city we will pass through en route.
The Rattlesnake Museum
Jul 21
One of the places on our list of places to stop has long been the Rattlesnake Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Having a snake of our own (Bobbi, our Ball Python), has fascinated us, and what better way to learn more about snakes than a visit to the Rattlesnake Museum. Most of the snakes there [...]
Albuquerque
Jul 21
We made it to one of the more strangely spelled stops on our way home. We hit Old Town Albuquerque (a quaint part of town stuck in a bit of a time warp) a little before lunch, and stopped in the Visitors’ Center for some ideas of what to do while we were there. We [...]
En Route to Albuquerque
Jul 21
This morning we are headed to Albuquerque, New Mexico. We finished listening to the Audio Book version of Inkheart, read by Lynn Redgrave, and now we are starting Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the series. We hope to catch the movie version of book 6 (which just opened) sometime along [...]
Gallup
Jul 20
The Best Western is hosting us tonight in Gallup, New Mexico. We stopped at our customary Comfort Inn, but were thwarted by the out of commission pool. The drive out here today from Flagstaff was an interesting one. It started with our attempt to visit Slide Rock, then continued up I-17 to I-40. We took [...]
Such a Fine Sight to See
Jul 20
Standing by the Pizza Hut in Winslow, Arizona.
Backfill…
Jul 20
I’ve been going back occasionally and filling in with posts from previous days. It’s hard to keep up in real time, and even though it feels wrong to pre-date blog postings, it feels like the right solution to make this a record of the trip. Be sure to look back a bit; there might be [...]
Eastward, Ho!
Jul 20
Today we begin the journey home! We headed out of Flagstaff today, driving along a short section of Route 66. We attempted to go to Slide Rock State Park in Oak Creek Canyon, which Susan remembered from a trip out here in 1975. True to its name, it’s a place where you can slide down [...]
