With this post, I’m finally back to documenting our West Coast National Parks trip in the summer of 2017. By the end of the previous installment in this series, our intrepid travelers (Alan, Kyra and I) had landed in Oklahoma City on Day #5. We had already returned home twice – once for Kyra’s forgotten supply of contacts and once to buy a truck – and made a mad and successful dash to catch up with our planned itinerary in Oklahoma City. All that and we hadn’t even made it to the West Coast yet! Let’s pick up the story with our departure from OKC and some additional Route 66 highlights as we worked our way west.
After just a one night stop at the Oklahoma City West KOA, I was
disappointed to see OKC in our rear view.
Our truck troubles had resulted in the loss of a day of R&R (Rest
& Relaxation) in OKC, and I had been really
looking forward to visiting the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. Alas, that was not to be - not on this trip, anyway - but the museum remains a Bucket List item.
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Pulling out of our site at the Oklahoma City West KOA
We worked our way across the state of Oklahoma on Interstate 40 and into the Texas panhandle. The panhandle is comprised of the 26 northernmost counties in Texas, representing just over 10% of the state’s counties (a total of 254). Texas is B-I-G, and we passed through just a sliver of it, but that sliver included one of our best stops along Historic Route 66.
