Ian Rambles
Following old alignments of Route 66 take you on to interesting back roads. Today there was a section of "Nine Foot" pavement - a nine foot ( 2.5m ) strip of concrete with a dirt shoulder each side to facilitate passing. Elsewhere there is everything from gravel road through two lane, four lane ( dual carriageway ) up to six lane interstate where the old road has been buried.

Fiona's Journal
Swam, breakfasted, packed and on the road by 10.30 leaving the cabin spotless enough to satisfy even my Mum!

Route 66 continues to shadow I-40 (the Interstate) pretty closely but we have kept mostly to the old road today and have passed through countless small towns and settlements of the American mid West. We must be deep in the heart of the bible belt here because churches seem to outnumber all other buildings. In some places the houses are all beautifully maintained with immaculate lawns and in others they all look shabby and unkempt with piles of rusting junk around them. However, in all these communities the churches (and they all have at least 4 or 5 of them) are the biggest, the best maintained, the most prominent buildings of all. There are huge billboards along the highway declaiming the word of God. “Forgive your enemies – it messes with their minds” is one I will treasure. But speaking as a committed atheist, I think if you don't “get” the god thing then you can't really “get” this part of America.

Just East of Tulsa, in a place called Claremore, is the Davis Gun Museum and, traveling with three boys, this is not to be missed. Actually, I enjoyed it as much as they did because it wasn't only guns, though there were a mind-blowing 20,000 of those, and the J.M. Davis who personally amassed this huge collection was an interesting man in his own right. He and his second wife have burial tombs within the museum!

We have driven in three states today having started in Missouri, crossed the corner of Kansas and continued half way across Oklahoma. We end the day at yet another KOA campsite just to the East of Oklahoma city and with another “day off” booked here for tomorrow.

Arthur's Log:
A bad sleep, (because of the lack of sleeping) I am badly sun-burnt and every time I roll over I wake up from the pain.

Field, field, field, field, field, field, field, house church and a field and repeat, that sums up the first half of today. Churches are everywhere. Standing outside a gas station I could see a Christian church bigger than any Super market I have ever seen then a sign just up the road for another one plus yet another just behind me.

Went to a huge gun museum. The two most interesting were a pistol where you cock it by pulling a string and a hammer which fires a bullet out of the head when you hit someone - or a cow.

My shoulders are much worse today. A bright glossy red and bubbles of fluid.

The Harry Report
The gun museum!! So many guns. Best thing of the trip so far!

George's Musings
Lots and lots of guns. I made flat pennies.