Meeting My Grandfather on Route 66, Vol. V (Kansas & Missouri)

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Into Kansas at
1:05.  Baxter
Springs thru
"archway" of lake
trees!
Yalena, Kansas

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Only six lines for Kansas.  Route 66 barely cut through the southeast corner of the state for a handful of miles, as it angled increasingly northeast toward Chicago and into Missouri.

Into Missouri

at 1:34.  Into
Joplin¹ at 1:45.  In
city, a young boy drove
up by car and
ask where we
were from.  Said
he was from
Redlands but
had been back
here about 6 mo.

WANTED FOR MURDER: BONNIE & CLYDE, Joplin, MO, 1933

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Into Carthage
Leave U.S.
66 here for
first time
since leaving
California.  And
take 71 U.S.

Highway
as far
as Nevada
Came by camp
Clark Missouri
National Guards
south of Nevada
Leave U.S. 71
and take U.S. 54
out of Nevada, east

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over terrible rough
detour and had
a flat tire.  Stopped
to fix it at 6:05
start on at
6:28
Happened to be in
shade to change
wheels.
Car registers
29937 when
he² put on
new Riverside
tire.  Back on
54 at 7:12

Seems like Heaven
if it can just

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last on pavement
Stop at Bolivar
Mo. at Bolivar
Camp at 7:20
Had drove 418 mi
miles today
To bed at 10.
{erased line}
Up at 4:10.
Start out at 5:00
just as the town
clock struck
real close to
where we
camped.  Fine
morning.
Thru B____ and Buffalo
then Lunas.

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out of Dallas County
into Camden county
at 6:10
Thru Branch,
Mack's Creek,
Roach, Beautiful
scenery, timber
     cross³
Niangua river
{two lines scratched out}
By Lako Cottage
auto
camp.  Real nice
looking
Camdenton.
Pass another
nice tourist camp
by Lakeaway Cottage
Camp.



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Linn creek {word scratched out}
{three lines scratched out}

Over Bridge
at River Glaize River
½ mi long.  Sure
pretty.

Zebra --
crossed road

that goes to
Ozark Beach
Men working
roads

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Enter Miller Co
at 7:30. a.m
Leave Miller Co
and go into Camden
Co. again.  Then
Back into Miller

Co again and
stop at Dam
at 7:35.  Had drove
80 miles this
a.m.
quite a sight
{can't make out words} hadn't
seen anything

like it.

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{skipped line}
Aurora Springs
Into Eldon

at 8:12.  Stop
and eat at 
Cousin Julius
Roark's sandwich

shop.  See Cliff
Leisher, Cousin Willard
Roark, Clarence
Roy Currence.
Start on home
and stop at
Gertrude's cousin
Irene's.

Devil's Elbow Bridge, MO, today (photo: Greg Goodman)

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Start on at
9:25.
Home at
9:50.  Had drove
102 miles this
a.m.  Making
a total of

2,065 miles
from San Pedro
to Dad's.  Take
{three lines scratched out}
I paid the kids⁴
$26 for my trip
home.

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1. Joplin, MO: birthplace of Langston Hughes
2. By "he" he meant his brother Stan. 
3. By "cross" he meant "across".
4. I'm assuming by "kids" he meant his companions -- his older siblings -- Stan and Gertrude. 


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