So after the big storm of last night, and the late arrival at camp, we set about making plans for today. There was no evidence of the near-on monsoon weather from the night before. We decided we would go to the zoo, it was lovely day, great for a walk around. Plus it was only about 20 minutes drive to get there. We got there and the place was heaving, on a Thursday! We had to park in the overspill car park across the road and walk across. We got into the zoo and ...

The first thing on the list after packing up the tent today, was going to see the big blue whale at Catoosa. This is another Route 66 attraction and is a huge cement whale given as an anniversary present in the 70s. It has slides and windows a tail that you can jump off. Although swimming is not recommended or allowed, plus there are turtles in the water too. Might nibble your feet. After this, we headed into Tulsa, and we went to the Golden Driller, another huge...

It was another day of driving Route 66 on the agenda today, but that doesn't just mean driving, it means stopping and chatting. It's been great meeting so many people with so many different stories down the whole of the route so far. We were looking forward to it. The first stop after having a little look through the KOA shop, was the Gay Parita petrol station. The couple there were lovely, George and his wife were so nice, they gave us watermelon and offered us ...

We started the day by heading into Springfield to see the Lauterbach giant, placed outside a tire shop on Wabash Avenue. Picture opportunities were fairly difficult as it was so close to the road. Plus we looked like we were in full tourist mode, which seems to have been happening more and more often. But then again, I suppose we are tourists. After that, we went back to the Cozy Dog Drive In for lunch, Marie had another corn dog and I decided to have a hot dog a...

After staying another night in the Springfield KOA we had stayed in before, we set off to head back towards Chicago to go to some of the things on Route 66 that we missed. We left via the diversion again, and headed towards Chicago again. We would be stopping short of Chicago to see the Gemini Giant, one of the Route's muffler men, huge fibreglass statues. This was at the Launchpad Diner, now up for sale, which was the best part of 3 hours away, and then we would...