Category: Travel

Dueling museums, competitive car art, tributes to barbed wire, rattlesnake dens, and much more are on display along the southern stretch of Route 66.

For example, as you get to know the Road you learn there is a Cadillac Ranch, a Bug Ranch, and a Rabbit Ranch. These aren’t animals I’m listing, these are cars. In these “Ranches” a series of cars is planted nose down into the ground: seven Cadillacs, five VW Beatles, and three VW Rabbits. Crazy!

A large part of the fun of driving Route 66 is finding these gems from days gone by. Today I revisited a bunch of places I knew would be fun to share with you. Scroll down through the pictures below. I hope you enjoy them.

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Passing through the Cherokee Nation was my way of getting to the second leg of my trip. Given that it was not a primary attraction I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. The northeast corner of Oklahoma is hilly, and green and due to Tenkiller Dam it’s also a great place for water sports. The path I took is being turned into a State Scenic Route. Good choice!

The next segment of my trip is along a six-State stretch of Route 66. It’s such a wonderful trip back to 20th century Americana that when I get a good excuse to drive it, I drive it! A special stretch can be found in Miami, OK but I’m afraid it’s falling apart. After driving it today, I made the following video.

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New Mexico’s Flag
On it we see a red sun with rays stretching out from it. There are four groups of rays with four rays in each group. This is an ancient sun symbol of a Native American people called the Zia. The Zia believed that the giver of all good gave them gifts in groups of four. 

These gifts are:

The four directions – north, east, south and west.
The four seasons – spring, summer, fall and winter.
The day – sunrise, noon, evening and night.
Life itself – childhood, youth, middle years and old age.

All of these are bound by a circle of life and love, without a beginning or end.

It’s the dead of winter, the holidays are over, and the girls are back at school. Sounds like time for another trip! North? No, brrr! East? No, there’s an ocean in the way of my driving. So why not south and west down to warmer country. Having waiting for the arctic cold to blow past I’m now ready to hit the road. 

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