Sunday, March 22, 2009

Day 6 - Amarillo to Tulsa, via Oklahoma City

Spent most of the day following the path of Route 66 (as opposed to my diversions on previous days) - that meant the freeway from Amarillo to Oklahoma city then the old route 66 through the Oklahoma countryside and small towns to Tulsa. I was expecting Oklahoma to be flat plains, but in fact it was more gently rolling hills, which, given it was springtime, in places looked almost like England (but with fewer houses!)

1930s petrol station in Shamrock, Texas - I'm sure that Disney had something similar in "Cars"

Memorial to the Oklahoma City bombing


Detail of a huge glas sculpture in the foyer of the Oklahome Art Museum


Tulsa cityscape - what I don't understand is why both Oklahoma City and Tulsa had large empty building lots, still with remnants of driveways etc. very close to their downtown areas - in other cities these would have been developed.













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