Just before crossing into Missouri. To take the short cut to get there. This was on the side of the road in southern Illinois. I remember seeing these years ago. They are embedded in the side of the tree trunk. The ramps were here first and the tree grew up between them. Nathan with an Illinois shield and fighting the wind.

A still very much in business drive-in theater. There were ruins of many more along the way. There are many, many vacant and abandoned structures that were once motels, gas stations, and stores. Long gone, nothing but ghosts there now. A very nice leisurely drive in western Missouri and I have the road to myself for now.

This place is almost a ghost town. My view of the same courthouse. Screen shot from the Grapes of Wrath as the Joads pass by the Sayre Oklahoma courthouse. A mural and a little bar. Very good museum here too.

We finally made it home about midnight, exhausted and I asked myself did I really do this trip? Sadly, it was over. Traffic was backed up for miles. The old cars were visitors who were traveling Route 66, and not part of the display. An original piece of old 66 pavement in the museum.

A little bit of greenery before crossing the Colorado River and enter the first town in California, Needles. May I help you? The town was named for Olive Oatman. To read the full story. The Oatman Hotel where Clark Gable and Carol Lombard honeymooned. They were doing renovations so it was closed off when we were there. The burros could do whatever they wanted to do. After miles of driving and thinking we were at the end of the earth we suddenly came upon the town of Oatman.

We even went by the home of Nicole Brown Simpson. This is a pic of the infamous gate where she was murdered. I saw this one, too, after getting my map. 1174 Hillcrest located in Trousdale Estates in Beverly Hills.

We ate lunch at this very good little place in Baxter Springs, Kansas. It occupies the former bank building that was once robbed by Jesse James in 1876. A sign for a really neat bridge. It runs and looks just as it did when the moviemakers saw it. Where do you want to go? .

An old advertisement for the El Rancho Hotel miles down the road. Te of the Cliff Dwelling Trading Post. Leaving Gallup, New Mexico. He thinks of it as a challenge to see how long he can go and not smile in a picture. The next morning and checking out. Richard Boone room down the hall. Amazingly we see Canadian Guy again checking into the same hotel. A lot of neon in this town too.