Gettin our kicks on Route 66

Our trip back to Pa was planned to take us down the infamous Route 66..... portions of it anyway. What a hoot! It was like going back in time to the 50's & 60's. We saw a motel whose rooms were all separate teepees, made of cement and painted to look like canvas. Parked outside each one was a vintage car from this era. We passed by the Cadillac Ranch in Texas where a row of cadillac cars are partially buried, nose down, and painted grafetti style. We saw numerous 50 & 60 style dinners, gas stations, and billboards.

Attached are two pictures I took at a state rest area. Who says Arkansas doesn't have a sense of humor?
We averaged a little over 200 miles of traveling per day. John was on a mission to get home. We stopped in Kentucky near Mammouth Caves for a few days to refill the water tank and dump our waste water. Because we monitor the weather closely when we travel, we were aware of a bad storm with high winds coming towards us so we hunkered down once again for 2 days.
Our path home changed slightly when we received an e-mail from John's nephew, Dave Pietch (John's sister's son), inviting us to stop by Indianapolis on our way home.  Since we were in Kentucky we took the slight detour and spent a very enjoyable weekend with Dave, Debbie, Zack and Kaitlyn. What a lovely family. We toured the Food Bank that they run for their church and had a chauffered tour of the Indy area. Then it was back on the road.... I swear John can smell the house...