Oklahoma City to Tulsa, OK (Fri. July 30)

We are quickly finding that it is impossible to do justice to this great road in such little time. It would be great to be here without any restraints on our time. But we are doing the best we can to squeeze in as much as we can in the time we have. We have learned you need to check addresses and directions (though not something easy to do when you don't have much time on the internet and cell phones don't always work) as we couldn't find a few places we wanted to see the past few days and found others only by going to the wrong place and then wasting time trying to find the right address. When you are on such short time you hate to waste time getting lost or looking for a place no longer opened. We are using addresses from two different books and I figured I could trust them but I realize over time things change causing the information in the books to not always be correct.

We first stopped today at the Round Barn a well known Route 66 spot and then headed east stopping next at the Seba Station, a restored garage now a motorcycle museum that just opened up a few weeks ago. The boys were not impressed with the round barn but as we walked into the station Conor made some comment about this being more like it. We met one of the owners, Jerry. He was a really nice guy and spent some time with us talking about his station and the Route. He told us to be sure to check around back of the station before leaving as there was an old free standing bathroom the boys would probably like. They did!!

Next was lunch was at the Rock Cafe. The Rock Café is made of rocks taken from the roadway when Route 66 was built. What a nice looking place. The real draw to this place is that the owner (Dawn) is the personality they used when they designed Sally from Cars. We think we saw her but didn’t want to bug her by asking. Later on we were told they are used to it and are happy if you ask for them. Wish we hadn’t been so shy about it. But even if we didn’t see her, man does she and her staff know how to cook!! Another great meal was had.

We continued along the Route through Tulsa. The kids wanted to see the Air and Space Museum but by the time we got to Tulsa and found the museum (first address we had was wrong) there was less than 1/2 hour until it closed. So we ended up finding a hotel near the airport for the night (there is no camping around here) and will see the museum first thing this morning. We drove out 66 a bit further before settling in for the night and saw the Blue Whale (another infamous Route 66 spot that used to be a great swimming spot. If you look at the whale in the picture you can see a slide coming out of the side of the whale). We spent a bit of time talking to Blane (not sure on spelling) the man that owns it. He is the son of the original owners. He was telling us how he is trying to get the town to eventually take it on as a park so it will be preserved after he can no longer care for it. He also said the reason the water is so dirty (and it was disgusting!) is that the liability is too high to let people swim there anymore so he leaves it like that on purpose. It is really too bad there is not a way to get it back operating the way it used to.