Microtel Inn Tucumcari

Today is our last day of traveling before we arrive in Santa Fe tomorrow. We left this morning and headed out toward Texas. Within an hour, we came across a museum that was about the historic Route 66.   Brandon has always wanted to drive the historic Route 66 so this was the perfect opportunity for us to get a taste of what it might have been like. This particular museum featured different rooms ...

For the romantic, the legend says that Tocum lost the battle for Cari's hand, at which point Cari killed herself. Her father the chief, distraught over this turn of events, also killed himself saying "Tocum-Cari, Tocum-Cari". It's probably some mundane thing like lookoutpoint, or buffalo hunt, but for the dreamer in us. Having left Ok City early this ...

Got an early start today on our way to New Mexico. We travelled from Dallas to Oklahoma City, then on to Los Alamos Texas and finally made it into Tucumcari just before nightfall. Hungry we asked about a restaurant and were directed to Dean's Place where the meatloaf, mashed potato ...

... parts of the canyon would rival Bryce canyon, arriving at the bottom we drove along the paved road at a slow pace to allow us to take in the grandeur as best we could. Our quiet approach and speed was rewarded by sighting and stopping alongside three beautiful deer, just beside the road. Pulling over at a picnic spot with some good restrooms, (in fact better cleaned and more presentable and maintained than some we have found in RV parks!), disturbing the quiet with our ...

... and the other half driving east to see historic Route 66, we were able to drive straight to Tucumcari. We ate at a diner, cancelled our reservation at the Blue Swallow Motel, and checked out Teepee Curios. We even had time for the Mesa Dinosaur Museum, which was a lot of fun. With plenty of time still left in the day, we started out from Tucumcari back west. At this point, we were both really feeling the ...

Now we officially started our Route 66 self-guided tour. We began from Tucumcari, NM with the hopes of checking out their dinosaur museum. Unfortunately, the museum was closed due to it being a Monday as well as a holiday. The rest of the city was not impressive so we decided to move on back to TX via the historic Route 66.

... still be on. We'll have to settle on seeing it in the daylight. So we are parked for the night. Don't know the plan for tomorrow yet. Sounds like Adrian, TX for lunch and Shamrock,TX for dinner. Other than that, we still have to plan it so I'll let you know.

... preparing mentally and physically for another day of driving. Google says it is 5 1/2 hours drive to OKC, plus I lose 2 hours changing time zones. I haven't had to eat out too much as I brought food with me and have been munching on it since I left. I will get on the road now before it gets too hot.

... white kitty friend and brought him inside. The spiders venom won't harm me but could be fatal to kitty according to some web articles. I am off to Oklahoma City tomorrow to see a wonderful friend I met in 1974. Yeah Diane. Then off to Ft. Worth area to meet with my cousin and see my niece for the first time. Then Tennessee and hopefully Boone.

9am Decided that we didn't want to go to any chain restaurants anymore (only been to Cracker Barrel) and thought we would try to find some local flavor. We did some research in our travel books and ended up at the Bickford Café in "downtown" El Reno. All these towns are pretty depressing, you can tell that they used to be booming and busy and now they are a few small restaurants on dusty streets. The café was a typical "sleepy" town and did offer us ...