Getting Our Kicks~ Route 66 Vaca ~ Day 5

Springfield, MO to Tulsa, OK

Springfield to Tulsa

~

Halltown, Phelps, Avilla,  & Carthage, Missouri

ending in Joplin, Missouri.

~

Into Kansas

The quality of the road changed drastically.

The short road ran through a deserted mining area with railroad tracks and abruptly ended at the end of  Galena, Kansas.

This place really had the touch of the west.

Riverton & Baxter Springs, Kansas

In Baxter Springs, you will now find our names on the wall of an old service station.

Crossing the state line- a very rough road that started as chip seal and ended with gravel over a 9 foot concrete/paved section.

At the end was a historic marker with a typed piece of paper that said, well you read it. As it was, the shut down ended last night.

~

Commerce, OK

~

Miami, OK

Time for lunch @ Miami.  Found a city park.

 ~

Afton, OK ~ Stopped at a museum (formerly Packard Garage) which had various old vehicles. Met a lady there that had lived in Lexington, KY and gone to school at UK. Found out she grew up on the same street of the school where I last taught, but said she moved there too late to go to that school. While in their museum, I walked up to what I thought would be a bus and found out it was an RV and a very nice one at that.

 Across the street:

~

Catoosa, OK – the Blue Whale- The water park of the 70s & 80s.

~

Tulsa, OK

 Nite, nite

************************************
*****************************
Please scroll below
or
Click on NEWER POST for next day of trip.  ************************************************

Sharing at several Linky Parties.

Thanks to the FREE programs:

possibly used for this post

GIMP for cropping & other digital effects

 Photoscape for downsizing & watermarking photo

PicMonkey creating collages used on this page