Woke up in El Reno and started west into an angry looking sky. It was dark gray down low and black with a saw tooth shaped pattern on the bottom up high. This looked just like what they show on the weather channel when they talk about tornadoes. oh well, headed right into, it you only live once.
The night before the lady at the motel said if you hear the tornado warning sirens go to the bathroom it's the safest place. I told her that if I hear tornado warning sirens going to the bathroom will be a natural act.
Stopped at a museum in Clinton that explained the history before heading down route 66 and crossing into Texas. Stopped in Adrian Texas at the halfway point between Chicago and Santa Monica. A local school bus driver saw us coming and called Fran the proprietor to stay open. We had some pie bought some souvenirs signed her pick-up and were westward bound.
Stopped for the night in Tucumcari NM at a historic route 66 motel The Blue Swallow (http://www.blueswallowmotel.com/) were we met Bill, the owner, and sat outside around an old refrigerator having a few beers. Bill got us a ride to dinner and it was the end to an almost perfect day. Lots of old 66 very friendly people everywhere we stopped along with great riding weather.
"Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 14
It is amazing to see how the superhighway has displaced so many small businesses and left towns virtually empty, this in the name of progress. Of course we need the better roads to move people and freight but it reminds me of the Walmart driving out the small business and the personalized service that went with it.
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You could be that "Walmart greeter" you once talked about...just don't quote John Steinbeck. Customers will be asking you how much for what you're smokin' =)
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