Off the Beaten Path: New Mexico Mining Museum
On our slow Roadtrek trip southwest following Historic Route 66, we found a listing for the New Mexico Mining Museum in Grants, New Mexico – but we never found any description of the place. One lavish New Mexico booklet urged the reader to “go...
Off the Beaten Path: Palo Duro Canyon
“Texas' best kept secret,” said one Texas governor. He referred to “The Grand Canyon of Texas,” Palo Duro Canyon. We found it in a tourist brochure shortly before approaching Amarillo, Texas on our tour of historic Route 66. The Canyon is a...
Off the Beaten Path: Amarillo RV Museum
Route 66 crosses the Texas Panhandle, and the best known city is Amarillo. The premier RV museum in the Southwest is here, Jack Sisemore's RV Museum located at Jack Sisemore Traveland, an RV dealer, 4341 Canyon E-Way, Amarillo, TX 79110. The museum is free with hours...
People & Places: Jerry McClanahan & Route 66
“You must call Jerry McClanahan in Chandler. He wrote the book you just bought,” said Laurel Kane, owner of the Packard car collection at the Afton Station in Afton, Oklahoma. She said he loves to meet people and is a genuine nice guy. On our trip to the...
Off the Beaten Path: An Oklahoma Blue Whale
Craftsman welder and artisan Hugh Davis created a surprise wedding anniversary gift for his wife Zelta between 1970 and 1972. She loved whales. He constructed a life size ferroconcrete smiling blue whale in a pond just north of Catoosa, Oklahoma. He was an...
Off The Beaten Path: 1917 Packard Motorhome in Oklahoma
On our trip along historic U.S. Route 66, we are finding wonderful scenes and historical places through Missouri, Kansas (13 miles of it), and now Oklahoma. One of the unexpected wonders is the Afton Station & Packard Collection on old 66 just south of Exit 312 on...
Off The Beaten Path: Three Missouri Caves
Missouri is known as the “cave state,” and on our trip down Historic U.S. 66 we passed three well-known show caves – two privately owned and one (formerly privately owned) in a state park. As cavers, visits to show caves can be fascinating or...
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