Meeting my Grandfather on Route 66, Vol. IV: Texas & Oklahoma

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Into Texas at
8:45.

Saw Maragges¹.

Looked like big

lake with houses

& farms in it for

several miles, but

wasn't any water

on lake at all.

Thru ____² at 10am.

(335 mi from Okla City)

Into Amarillo

and stop for Ice

at 10 till 11.  Mail cards & letters³

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nicest town we've

come thru since

leaving California

Ice Stations here

thick as Gas

Stations.

Stop 7 till 12 to eat

and let engine cool

Had drove 215 mi

this a.m.

Beautiful farming

country.

In Shamrock

at 2 P.M.  Had drove

285 mi. out on detour

Into Oklahoma

Texola.  Got gas

and ask man about

the time.  He said

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We should of run

time up 1 hr. in

New Mex.  Either

in Tucumcari or

Clovis.  So we run

watches up now.

Made it 4 P.M. instead

of 3.

Passed thru Elk

City, then by a

cemetary, where

there was a monument

just north of it.

Jesus nailed to

the cross with

monument of one

person on each side

of cross⁴

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In Clinton
Cross Canadian
River, a beautiful
drive among big
trees.  Stop at
8:20 at
Rainbow Camp
in El Reno, Okla.
Had drove 444 mi.
today.
To bed at 10
up at 10 till 4
(skipped line)
Start out at 4:20
Get air in tire
as back one had
started to go down.
Thru Yukon
along river.
Thru Bethany,

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Into Okla. City
at 4:55.  Had drove
24 mi.
Passed by cutest
lunch place we ever
saw  By Memorial
Park.  Stop to
eat Breakfast at
5:20 {in Edmond} at a Cafe {Van Dial's}⁵
Real nice.  Cheapest
we've found.  Start
on at 6:14 after
getting gas, grease
ect.  Had drove
37 mi.
Thru Chandler at
7:03. ____⁶

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Thru Barstow
out of Tulsa at
9:15.  Had drove
152 miles when
we had gas tank
filled.
By KVOO Radio Station
Broadcasting
Thru Claremore
into Vinita Okla
at 11:20.  Mailed
Charley's letter a
__⁷chran's card and
got ice cream
cones there.
In Miami at
12:25. into Commanche
Thru Quapard
Okla. at 12:55

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1. (sic.) mirages
2. I couldn't make out the word.  It might be "Olga"? or "Vega"?
3. Wish I had those letters.
4. He had a deep Christian faith (as opposed to a surface or irrelevant faith).
5. Brackets in both cases are his.  One of the only examples in the notebook where he added in text after his initial, "on the road," jotting down of his impressions.
6. Scratched out word.
7. I've yet to decipher the first two letters of the word that ends in "chran's".

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