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2015 Route 66 RV Trip Overview | September 12–20 Road Trip Adventure
By September 2015, we were starting to feel comfortable traveling Route 66 with our RV, but we were still learning something new on every trip. Traveling the Mother Road in an RV is a very different experience than traveling by car and staying in motels. The pace is different, the planning is different, and the experience of the towns and the road itself feels different when you’re bringing your home along with you. This trip would take us west on Route 66 through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, before turning around and heading back east toward home. We planned the trip around RV parks along or near Route 66, which…
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Route 66 with Our Grandson – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Joplin, Missouri: September 18, 2015
On the morning of September 18, it was time to leave Twin Fountains RV Resort in Oklahoma City. I really can’t say enough good things about this place. The grounds were beautiful, the facilities were excellent, and the staff were wonderful. It’s definitely the kind of campground you remember and want to return to. We look forward to heading back there sooner rather than later. After packing up, we continued east along Route 66. Visiting Jerry McClanahan in Chandler Our first stop was in Chandler, Oklahoma at the gallery of Jerry McClanahan. Jerry is a well-known Route 66 author, artist, and historian who has spent years documenting the many alignments…
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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…
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Route 66 with Our Grandson – Shasta Trailer Adventure: September 12–14, 2015
Our latest journey took us back to the Mother Road, but this time with a new twist. Instead of our usual road trip by car, we brought along our Shasta Travel Trailer. Another special part of this trip was traveling with our four-year-old grandson, Jameson, introducing him to the adventure of the Mother Road. Because we were traveling with the trailer, we planned the trip differently than usual. Instead of long driving days, we chose shorter travel distances with planned overnight stops, giving us more time to enjoy each location along the way. Saturday, September 12, 2015 Speedway, Indiana → Springfield, Missouri Originally we planned to leave Friday evening after…
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Birthplace of Route 66 Festival – Day 4: August 16, 2015
Not too much to say about today, really. We started the journey home early, broke down camp, packed up the trailer, and hauled it east to Indy all day. No festival attendance for us today, since yesterday was our big day. We took Route 66 most of the way out, but eventually had to take the Evil I home. Still, we did stop at the Route 66 Rest Area and Visitor’s Center, which is a great place to pick up information not just on Missouri, but on Route 66 as well. The rest area is very much Route 66-themed. Here are a few examples; see the gallery below for more.…
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Birthplace of Route 66 Festival – Days 1-2: August 13-14, 2015
As online chatter started among Route 66 roadies about the Birthplace of Route 66 Festival in Springfield, Missouri, we thought it might be fun to attend, especially since we weren’t able to make it to the festival in Kingman the year before and knew we wouldn’t be able to attend in Los Angeles the following year. When we first considered going, we debated taking the car versus the RV. But after purchasing a new-to-us truck to haul the Shasta Oasis, we didn’t want to leave that costly combo sitting at home collecting dust. If it was going to collect dust, it had better be road dust! The Rail Haven was…
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August 13–16, 2015: Birthplace of Route 66 Festival – Springfield, Missouri
✨ INTRO As chatter started building among Route 66 roadies about the Birthplace of Route 66 Festival in Springfield, Missouri, we knew it was something we wanted to experience. We had missed the festival in Kingman the year before—and wouldn’t be able to make Los Angeles the following year—so Springfield felt like the perfect opportunity. When it came time to plan the trip, we debated between taking the car or traveling with the trailer. After recently purchasing our truck and Shasta Oasis, the decision became pretty easy. If that setup was going to collect dust, it had better be road dust. And just like that, another road trip memory was…
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Well, we’re movin’ on up!!
As indicated in my previous blog post, we are selling our Serro Scotty HiLander travel trailer. We are having growing pains (or at least, the beginning of them), and it’s a good time for us to move on up…to a bigger travel trailer! We started out with our first travel trailer being a small T@B, which was good for a couple, but yet we actually quickly outgrew that, even without additional family! Just switching the bed back and forth to a dinette, orchestrating who would get dressed first, leave the trailer, so the other person could make the bed back into a dinette and get dressed… And not to mention:…
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June 7-9, 2013: Mounds State Park – Anderson, Indiana
This weekend we *finally* got the trailer out and camped somewhere other than our own yard! We had reservations at Mounds State Park for Friday and Saturday nights. We were going to see Huey Lewis and The News Saturday night at Hoosier Park Casino, and Mounds State Park is a small, but very nice, state park close to the casino. Here was our spot for the weekend, in a small loop right next to the airport. We saw many small planes taking off and landing throughout the weekend. Here are a few photos inside our Serro Scotty, featuring our new turquoise bedding, throw rug, and turquoise storage tubs under the…
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August 9-12, 2012: Kerola Campers Big Little Rally, Transfer, Pennsylvania
Photographs Below is a slideshow of all Pat’s photos from Kerola Campers 2012 Big Little Rally. Click any photo to stop the slideshow and view the photos on my Flickr site. [flickrslideshow acct_name=”11019355@N03″ id=”72157631042938200″ width=”600″]