Started out at about 1000 from Tulsa this morning, we weren't as rushed, as we knew the mileage would be a bit lower today. It started out hot, about 100 degrees f' and in no time the Harley's temp gauge maxed out at 120 were it stayed til we arrived at our motel about 7.45pm. The weather is amazing now the hurricane's wake has cleared us, to the extend that we are now grateful of the occasional cloud for a break in the heat.
At one stage we took refuge in a deserted (not just temporary, but ghostly abandoned like) car wash for shelter and ate banana and peanut butter for energy (pilfered at breakfast time). This sort of abandonment has been getting to me (Craig) quite a bit, in particular the frequency with which classic American trucks/pickups and cars are seen in peoples yards just rusting and perishing away like the many businesses on rt66.
We've also seen along the way many small towns which (if the business signs and ads were removed) would look just like classic cowboy towns, and ranches and praries which look like they are from a freaky little time warp!
We didn't have too much touristy stuff today but all 190(ish) miles were old rt66 road rather than interstate after tracing back from our motel. Our route took us through and passed Oklahoma city. On the outskirts of which was a store called 'Pops' where we had lunch. It was quite modern looking, and very popular, it was a fuel station, a diner and a speciality soda store with soooo many flavours including ones as random as bacon, or buffalo wings, or lemon meringue pie. Shame we don't have much room for souvenirs.
We managed to find a place in our route book called Lucilles for tea, but it was like many other places derelict (a nice photo op) oh poo ... then just down the road found Lucilles roadhouse (apparently relocated) so had tea after all and got another photo.
We're at a Best Western tonight, and decided to have a dip in the pool at 9pm as it was still really warm even though the sun had gone down. A very nice way to relax and unwind after a very hot day. How good is that!!!
Night night all. C n C
No comments:
Post a Comment