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Route 66 with Our Grandson – Amarillo, Texas to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: September 17, 2015
We left the Oasis RV Park in Amarillo this morning to begin the return leg of our journey home. As we were packing up, Jameson wanted to spend a little more time enjoying the playground at the campground. While he played, the truck doors had been left open while we loaded gear. Unfortunately, that turned out to be an invitation for a swarm of Texas flies to move into the cab. When Jameson climbed back into the truck, he was immediately surrounded by buzzing intruders and quickly became very upset, loudly declaring: “I hate Texas flies!” We opened the windows and spent a few minutes shooing them out until the…
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Route 66 with Our Grandson – Western Oklahoma to Amarillo: September 15, 2015
Our Route 66 adventure with our grandson Jameson continued as we made our way through western Oklahoma and into the Texas Panhandle. One of the things we enjoy most about traveling Route 66 is discovering the small and often overlooked roadside pieces of history that still remain along the Mother Road. This stretch of the trip certainly delivered plenty of those moments. Western Oklahoma Stops Our first stops of the day came in Sayre, Oklahoma, where we spotted an old Rexall pharmacy building that still hints at the town’s historic past along Route 66. A little farther west, we passed through Texola, Oklahoma, one of those nearly-forgotten border towns where…