Today we followed Route 66 through Oklahoma, the Texas panhandle, and into New Mexico. We enjoyed seeing the remnants of some Route 66 motels and curios. We also had fun looking at the outside of motels that are still there. We enjoyed pointing out to Elizabeth some places we had stayed as children and talked about what made a motel "good" back then - it was all about the pool and did it have a diving board and slide?
We stopped at a Stuckey's and purchased a pecan log for old times sake. The one we stopped at was right before the Texas/New Mexico border. The woman there told us that the daughter of the original Stuckey's owner still owns seven of the Stuckey's there in Texas and New Mexico. We wanted to show Elizabeth the type of souvenirs we used to purchase. Stuckey's had a lot of those old type souvenirs, but they did not have those little ceder chests that had the name of the town printed on them. Lorie and I used to collect those.
Tonight we are in Tucumcari, New Mexico. We drove through the town on our way to find something for dinner. There were some interesting places: the Lizard Lounge and the Cowboy Place where you could have your own powwow, but we ended up at Subway. We enjoyed seeing the old signs, but most of the places are closed up or already gone with only the sign left. One of our favorite signs was for an old RV campground and it said, "Horses welcome". We liked that.
Lorie is much better today. She says she is finally beginning to feel like herself again. She stayed awake most of the day, so that is a good sign.
Our Triple A Trip is almost over-just a couple of more days. We are trying to squeeze a lot into them.
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