Monday was a typical fast food day for me (which needs to stop). Free RaceTrac drink on the way to work. Free cheeseburger from Cheeseburger Bobby’s, with purchase of fries and drink. Left the office and stopped for a free junior frosty at Wendys. Then I bought a cookie from Chickfila to save for breakfast today. By buying the cookie I receive a free treat later this week. Plus Chickfila awarded me another treat for December.
At Halloween you buy five junior frosty coupons for a dollar, then when try to use one they don’t want to take your coupon. So I’ve been getting a free junior frosty every day. Hits the spot.
Ceil fixed beef stew for supper. The stew was good, but the beef was too chewy. Watched Jeopardy, the new Peyton’s Places with Gronk and Edelman, and the Manningcast with Danny Devito, a Giants fan. Crazy play involving Younghoe Koo, who inexplicably failed to swing his foot through the ball on a field goal attempt. Not sure what happened. Could be the end of his career.
Just happened to stumble across this article last night: the best places to stop when driving cross country, and the worst.
The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
Ohio: Buckeye Lake State Park…not great.
Pharmacy Burger Parlor in Nashville.
Dolly Parton’s White Limozeen in Nashville
Rendezvous BBQ in Memphis
Cheers Restaurant in Fayetteville Arkansas
The Blue Whale of Catoosa in Tulsa.
The Philbrook Art Deco Museum in Tulsa.
Cadillac Ranch outside of Amarillo
Stonehenge in Odessa
Stockyard Station & Cowtown Museum in Ft Worth
Santa Fe: Ojo Santa Fe Thermal Spa & Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Arizona: Petrified Forest National Park & the Painted Desert Inn & Newspaper Rock
Sedona: Cathedral Rock, Yavapai Apache Fry Bread & Jewelry.
I need to come up with my own list of places that I want to visit on my cross country trip. Except now I hate to drive, so it probably won't happen. Off the top of my head: New Orleans, Austin, Four Corners Arizona, White Sands National Park, Alaska, Mount Rushmore, Green Bay, Milwaukee, the Field of Dreams in Iowa, Nashville, Memphis, Key West, Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Japan. Also other national parks that our kids had visited out west. Not that we’re going to any of these places, but it’s fun to list them.
Route 66 runs from Chicago to Santa Monica…2448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica. Attractions include…
Pontiac IL: Route 66 hall of fame
Springfield IL: Cozy Dog drive in and Lauterbach giant figure.
St Louis Gateway Arch & Old Chain of Rocks Bridge
Stanton MO: Meramec Caverns
Cuba MO restored hotels
Galena Kansas service station inspired the movie Cars
Baxter Springs historic downtown
Catoosa OK blue whale
Tulsa art deco downtown
Oklahoma City
Clinton OK route 66 museum
Amarillo Cadillac Ranch & Big Texan Steak House
Vega: midpoint, classic cafes
Tucumcari classic neon signs
Santa Rosa auto museum, blue hole swimming spot
Albuquerque Old Town Plaza, historic downtown
Holbrook: Petrified Forest National Park & Painted Desert.
Winslow AZ “standin’ on the corner” park, La Posada Hotel.
Seligman & Oatman classic storefronts
Amboy Crater, Roy’s Motel & Café sign in the Mojave
Victorville / Barstow: route 66 museum, Harvey House depot.
Pasadena roadside architecture to Santa Monica Pier.
Denison on Dick Van Dyke’s lack of belief in the afterlife: I have been amazed by the assumption of so many people that their subjective beliefs about the afterlife will unquestionably correspond to what actually happens to them when they die. I remember a woman who told me, “I don’t believe in hell,” as if hell must therefore not exist. This seems to me like saying “I don’t believe in Australia” and therefore assuming there is no such thing as Australia.
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