Corvette Cruise IV

There must be a couple of you who were waiting for the next installment of the Corvette Cruise--well, a couple of things got in the way.  First, we took a 16 day cruise from Vancouver, B.C to the Hawaiian Islands and then during the last days of the cruise I got very sick and later found I had pneumonia.  But now I have enough energy to write at least and so here we go on the next leg of this journey.

This is Sayre, Oklahoma, where my grandson, Patrick, lives.  We tried to meet up with him but he thought we were coming the next day and was off doing something else.

Nice sign, fake horse and the town is pretty dead.  Friendly people at a nearby convenience store and garage tried to help us find Patrick.  They found where he worked, but when they called he wasn't there.  Like I say, off doing something else like a typical 25 year old.  Bummer.

Best Rest Stop ever!  Right across the border between Oklahoma and Texas.  Snake warnings all over the place but great restrooms and even a kid's play area.  When you're on the road you notice and appreciate these things!

Another great Rest Stop in New Mexico.  And since it is close to Roswell, NM, Chester visits. I liked his Hawaiian shirt.

This bronze of a dinosaur bone outside the rest stop, lured us to head for Tucumcari, New Mexico to the Dinosaur Museum.  Tucumcari is one of the few remaining towns along Route 66.

Some of the old Route 66 businesses still exist, but as in the last picture, there are many more that are sad ghosts of the past.

While waiting for the Dinosaur Museum to open we went to a historical museum.  It spanned the 1800s to the 60s, at least, maybe even later decades.

From radios we'd all recognize from the 40s...

To an old spinning wheel...

To a pair of high-button shoes...

A Ma-Bell switchboard....

To an ancient hair dryer...

A real wooden leg and some cowboy hats displayed on a limb...

Would you believe this is a juke box?

And this is a gambling machine?

They even had some covered wagons, this was a military one 

And a chuck wagon, complete with pans and a big coffee pot.

I've never been to our Kitsap Historical Society's Museum.  I wonder if it's anything like this one, with a huge variety of stuff from many decades, or if it's organized and tidy.  I better go see!

That's all I can get onto this post, so the next one will include the Dinosaur Museum and then we'll be heading down the road, out of New Mexico and into Arizona, Flagstaff, and the Grand Canyon.  I had never been to the Grand Canyon before!