Esta iconina Rota atravessa metade dos Estados Unidos, desde a California ate Chicago, no estado de Illinois, no centro norte. Substituida pelas modernas Highways, ainda restam alguns trechos dela que podem ser acessados e onde se pode literalmente
"voltar no tempo" e se imaginar na epoca em que "viajar" significava tambem "apreciar" a paisagem e as peculiaridades das pequenas localidades.
No estado de Oklahoma ainda existe boa parte da estrada e aqui visitamos o National Route 66 Museum em
Elk City - que e bastante abrangente e interessante. Passamos por Clinton - onde existe o Oklahoma Route 66 Museum (mais regional); Weatherford - com seus aerogeradores e o Lucille's Service Station/Road House Diner; El Reno - onde esta o El Reno Hotel(1892)
e o Fort El Reno; Yukon - Chisholm Trail e cidade natal de Garth Brooks; Oklahoma City - capital do estado e onde existem varias atracoes relacionadas a Route 66 e aqui visitamos o National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum (em viagem anterior) que e muito
interessante; Arcadia - a mais nova atracao desta cidade se chama POPS - um posto de abastecimento e loja de conveniencias cujo tema sao os refrigerantes e a Round Barn - construida em 1898; Chandler - Route 66 Interpretive Center, Historic Phillips 66 Station,
St.Cloud Hotel; Stroud - Rock Cafe (cuja dona foi inspiracao para o personagem "Sally" do filme "Cars" da Pixar). Tulsa e uma cidade grande e considerada a capital do petroleo de Oklahoma e com muitas atracoes relativas a Route 66 - Meadow Gold Sign (neon),
Bhee Dome Service Station, Cain's Ballroom, Route 66 Village, entre muitas outras.
Pernoitamos em um KOA na cidade de Claremore no Cherokee Casino e Horse Track.
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This iconic route crosses half of the US from California to Chicago,
Illinois. Substituted by the modern highways there still are some stretches that can be ridden and where one actually returns to the past when traveling in a car meant also to enjoy the ride and the view and the uniqueness of the small towns.
In Oklahoma
state there is still most of the route and here we visited the National Route 66 Museum in Elk City - which is queit comprehensive and interesting. We crossed by Clinton - Route 66 Museum (more regional); Weatherford - with its windmills, Lucille's service
station/ Road house diner; El Reno - El Reno Hotel (1892) and Fort Reno; Yukon - Chisholm Trail and Garth Brooks birthplace; Oklahoma City - where there are several attractions and here we have visited the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum; Arcadia
- with the newest attraction on 66 called POPS - service station and convenience store which shows a huge number of pop bottles from all over the world and there is a great number of different flavors to taste, the Round Barn (built in 1898); Chandler - Route
66 Interpretive Center, Historic Phillips 66 Service Station, St.Cloud Hotel; Stroud - Rock Cafe - whose owner was the inspiration for Pixar movie Cars' character "Sally"; Tulsa - big city, known as Oklahoma's oil capital and where there are several Route
66 attractions - Meadow Gold sign (neon), Blue Dome Service Station, Cain's Ballroom, Route 66 Village...among others.
We camped in Claremore at a KOA near the Cherokee Casino and Horsetrack. Here in Claremore is the Jim Davis Arms and Historical Museum
and the Will Rogers Memorial Museum. He was a famous comedian and "rope man" .