Sunday, October 15, 2017

Route 66 Adventure: Marsh Arch Bridge to Tulsa

Route 66 Adventure:   Marsh Arch Bridge to Tulsa
We meet Nomadic Fanatic on the road and Find Oklahoma is hard to pass by....

Baxter Springs Kansas
http://www.lovesmalltownamerica.com/baxterspringsks.php
Panoramic view of our view...
http://www.baxterspringschamber.com/Parks.php
We kept the windows open and slept well...
Water and Electric, $10.00 according to the sign...
Time for photos...











Our first visit to Baxter Springs in 2012....
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/03/america-cannot-be-found-on-interstate.html
Suyen wanted to get family pictures at the rainbow bridge.  So we backtracked to there.  Little did we know that someone we wanted to meet would show up just by happenstance....
https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/route66/brush_creek_bridge_cherokee_county.html
Here is a link to our 2012 trip....
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/05/route-66-getting-there-carthage.html








I knew Eric Jacobs, AKA Nomadic Fanatic was taking route 66 from west to east.  I was hoping to meet him on the road, and was going to make contact with him.  I thought he was farther west than he was.  Suyen told me she wanted to go back to the Marsh Arch Bridge to take some pictures.  So we had just made it out there and I looked up to see a familiar class C RV pull up.  It was Eric....

We got some doggie poses at the Rainbow bridge...


A 'biker gang' from Norway was taking a photo op....

Then it's Eric's turn....



Talking shop with Eric....
Class C parking lot....
Photo with Eric...

Stella and the bridge...

Jimmy and the bridge...
It was a short visit, but Eric is heading north to Kansas City, and we are heading west....
One less pass by for the cameras...








Navion and the bridge.... it was actually about 3 passes, the last one to grab our camera....

Dog is my co-pilot....
Back through Baxter....

...and on to Oklahoma....
Miami, Oklahoma
http://www.miamiokla.net
We have stopped at Wayans Ku Ku in May 2013....
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2013/05/us-66-afton-station.html
Scroll down to the bottom for the pictures

Someday we plan to stop in Miami and explore the downtown...


We stopped at the ribbon highway south of Miami....
http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/route-66-sidewalk-highway

Jimmy is bored with photos....

Dog is my pilot....
The ribbon highway is looking rough....



Even the shield painted on the asphalt is old and worn...


One last glance at the ribbon highway marker...


Afton Oklahoma
https://www.travelok.com/Afton
We stopped at Buffalo Ranch... We also stopped here in 2012...
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/05/route-66-afton-to-el-reno-oklahoma.html


There are still real buffalo at Buffalo Ranch...

Jimmy reacting to seeing buffalo for the first time...





Here's a video from 2012



Here's a video from a day trip we took in May 2013...

Here's a video from October 2012...


Vinita Oklahoma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinita,_Oklahoma



Clairmore Oklahoma
https://www.travelok.com/search/sid.1|2|3|6|7|8|10|11|12/listings.clairmore
We need to get some supplies for the rv, so we stopped at Wally world to rest a bit and get our schtuff...


Yes, the terlett is starting to make a stink...
Catoosa, Oklahoma
https://www.facebook.com/places/Things-to-do-in-Catoosa-Oklahoma/107952825899215/
From our October 2012 Trip...
http://svobodakc.blogspot.com/2012/10/friday-19-october-2012.html

Our first stop is to visit the Blue Whale...
http://bluewhaleroute66.com
Here's a video from October 2012...






Again, time for photos....

























Tulsa Oklahoma
Driving the route in Tulsa, you are greeted to some great roadside architecture and googie...


....talking about googie -- Rose Bowl...











Iconic 66...
https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/26920


Our goal in Tulsa this trip is to visit the Cyrus Avery Route 66 monument...
http://vision2025.info/cyrus-avery-centennial-plaza/

























Of course, for the photos, the dogs have to suffer....
Jimmy is really suffering...
















I love the signs for the goodwill...
Sapulpa Oklahoma
http://www.cityofsapulpa.net


We were thinking of boon docking at Wal Mart west of Catoosa.  We found an RV park, which is actually a storage facility...
This is all Jimmy and Stella do on the road...


Our view of the sunset.  We wish we had gotten farther in Oklahoma, but there is so much to see and so much we haven't seen...



















































































































































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