Sun Jun 21, 2015STATS Departure: 9:30 AM, Memphis, TNArrival: 4:30 PM, Checotah, OKMiles: 366.4 miles Travel Time: 7 hrs. Checotah is the home of Carrie Underwood. She did NOT greet us at the town limits, thank you very much.If you know who Carrie Underwood is, I'm sure you’re impressed.If you don’t, you’re probably not.

Thu, Jun 6, 2013 STATS Departure: Little Rock, Arkansas Arrival: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Miles: 330 miles Travel Time: 7 hoursThat’s about it. Went from Little Rock to OK City.Ummmmmmm. That’s all.

Found a really big oil driller at the fairgrounds in Tulsa today. Got completely lost trying to find our way out. Finally got onto 66 west. Got lost in Bristow just trying to stay on 66. Got lost in Oklahoma City trying to find the memorial, then getting out again. All in all, I'm surprised we made it as far as we did.We did find the Hobby Lobby, though. Huge store containing sewing and crafty things. Mom could have stayed for days. I went catatonic. At one ...

Well, we saw three states, today: Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Not so big a deal when you realize that Route 66 is only about 13 miles long in Kansas. We went through Galena, then found an old bridge. The Route 66 book we have says that we have to take a side trip to cross this bridge. The side trip turned out to be a road about 200 yards long, parallel to 66, and about 50 yards away from it. We swung over and crossed the bridge. Wow. Anyway, it's an arch...