Visited three sites today, and entered our 30th state on our driving tour of the USA.
We began our day at the Thomas P Stafford Air and Space Museum, Weatherford OK. This was a great little museum - in fact, more than a little museum - it was lovingly curated and had many interesting artefacts and plenty of information. Mr Stafford, now 82, rings everyday and still takes an active interest in the museum. I left with the feeling he led a full and rewarding life, and is now taking well earned time to play a round of golf or two.
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| At the entrance - it was a chilly 11 degrees C this am ... but it warmed up |
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| Thorough, interesting displays. No wonder this museum is affiliated with the Smithsonian |
Next stop was the Route 66 Museum, Clinton OK. This was a fun stop along the way, and as TripAdvisor states, the best of the Rte 66 Museums.
Finally we visited the Devil's Rope Barbed Wire Museum, McLean TX. This was a quirky place and is certainly devoted to the curation of all things 'barbed wire'. There was a side room with memorabilia pertaining to Rte 66, but after the earlier museum, it paled.
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| How could you drive past a place like this and not wonder what was inside?! |
We are now in Amarillo TX. The drive here was along a very long, very straight road, with not much but flat expanse either side, broken up every now and then by wind farms. Tonight we get chauffeur driven in a limo to Big Texan Steakhouse
http://www.bigtexan.com/, home of the 72oz free steak! You get one hour to eat it, including all the fixin's!
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| Lone Star State |
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| It was very windy today. The RV was buffeted badly on the road, and when we stopped to fill up with petrol it was being knocked by the wind. So, I am guessing, this is a good place for a wind farm. |
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| Flat miles and miles of miles .............. |
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| They like it all big in Texas - only disappointed I missed snapping a shot of a billboard advertising the "Catholic Supercentre " ... would loved to have dropped in and found a Texas style Jesus belt buckle :) |
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| We have now been warned about how to behave at our RV park tonight. Duly noted. |
