Day 5 - Springfield to Oklahoma City via Kansas

Longest planned journey today of the whole trip - 311 miles although actually drove 354 miles making nearly 1000 since I started. Weather in the morning was showery but still very hot but improved as the day went on. Long stretches of route 66 were still intact although the road on some of the more 'historic' parts had started to disintegrate. Easy to follow. After Missouri the road briefly travels for a few miles through Kansas before entering Oklahoma.

It was day of some fairly iconic sights and the guy running the blue whale reminisced about both Billy Connolly and Karl Pilkinton's recent visits.

Generally unimpressed with Oklahoma City, although the memorial to the City bombings is simple and very moving.

 

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