2014 September - our third winter journey begins

We started our winter 2014 trip spending our first night in Bridgeport (Truck Stop) finishing up our last appointments before heading southwest down Route 66.

 

 

Our first stop was in Springfield, Illinois to see President Lincoln’s historical sites.  We spent 4 nights with great weather.  We visited the Lincoln Home, Presidential Museum and Library, Old State Capital, Lincoln Tomb and Lincoln’s New Salem.  We ate at the Cozy Dog Drive-in, one of the historic Route 66 sites, also the home of the original Corn Dog.  The corn dogs were great but the fries were very greasy, so greasy they limped over when you picked one up.  Of course we ate all of it.  We also visited the Dana-Thomas House, a Frank Lloyd Wright house.

 

Lincoln Home

 

 

 

Presidential Museum and Library

 

  

Old State Capital

 

  

 

 Lincoln's Tomb

 

Lincoln's New Salem - where he lived when he started his early political career

Cozy Dog Drive-in (Historic Route 66 Sight)

 

 

 

 

Dana-Thomas House (a Frank Lloyd Wright House) 

 

We continued our journey along Route 66 through Missouri to Oklahoma City.  We spent 5 nights seeing the sights including the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, the Museum of Osteology and the Oklahoma City River Walk.  The National Memorial was very moving, walking through the museum with the pictures and audios had a big impact on both of us.  The Osteology Museum was a pleasant surprise and very educational, who knew there could be so much information about human and animal bones and skeletons in one location.  The river walk is no where near the size of San Antonio’s but they are doing a nice job with it and have some very nice restaurants.  The headquarters of Sonic Drive-In is along the river walk. 

Oklahoma National Memorial and Museum

 

 

National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum

 



Museum of Osteology

 

Oklahoma City River Walk (a miniature of San Antonio but very nice)

 

Belinda’s nephew, Matt is living in Fort Worth, TX so we took a drive down in the car to visit him (only a 3 hour drive).  We had a very nice visit including great barbeque and dinner in the Stockyard area. It was great to visit with him.

From Oklahoma City we continued along Route 66 through Amarillo, Texas.  Our overnight stop in Amarillo included the RV Museum and dinner at the Big Texan Steak Ranch, another Route 66 icon.  The RV Museum had RV’s from the 1930’s to the 1970’s, we had a lot of fun going through them.