Ft Smith AR to Amarillo TX August 6

Finally a full day driving at the speeds Flash likes to travel.  It was difficult the first few days to hold him in check till we reached the 500 miles mark.  He is purring along the highway and has met every expectation weve had.  Gas mileage, of course, went down a little from the 29mpg we were getting at the lower speeds, but still is quite good around 26-27mpg. 

 

We picked up Rte 66 at Oaklahoma City. 

Very nice visitor center at the Oaklahoma border

We picked up a lot of dirt already

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We pulled into a Carl’s Jr. for a lunch of $6 burgers and low and beyond, right across the parking lot was an O’Reilly’s Auto Supply.  We now have photos of Neal cleaning Flash in the Carl’s parking lot. 

One in the cage and one running free

This was the best of the Rte 66 Museums, Clinton OK

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gayle checking out how things were..

From a very different era..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The second museum was in Elk City OK

Lots of things to see

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A restored museum at the U drop Inn

 

While we were stopped here, an Italian couple came up and young lady asked if her boyfriend could take a picture of her posing with the car.  She looked so cute, Neal almost took one too, but Gayle slapped him. 

 

 

 

 

Leaning tower of Texas

Both of us were exhausted last night (Wednesday) after a full day of stopping along Rt. 66 to see museums and various other strange things, and lots of driving.  We had a nice dinner at the Texas Roadhouse which conveniently was right across the parking lot from yet another Holiday Inn (we’re using all those points Neal has accumulated).  After the dinner, we both decided the blog would have to wait and then promptly went to sleep.  Yawn.   Gayle decided to post a note this morning to let ya’ll know she hasn’t killed Neal yet so bail money isn’t necessary. 

  So far there haven’t been any mechanical problems, just a few minor things with the navigation system and Onstar.  We’ll have to do a little more reading about both, but  we’ve decided the turn-by-turn OnStar feature isn’t necessary since we have the navigation system.  And the navigation system is good, but doesn’t have as much information as our handheld Magellon.

We plan to make it to Grant NM tonight after another full day of Rt. 66 memorabilia.