Day 3

Day 3
Oklahoma City, OK - Santa Fe, NM
Miles Driven: Approx 540 Miles
I love every minute of this trip. 

 Yummy local coffee shop for breakfast. Thank you Yelp!

 

We went to the World's Largest Mound. It was on the Roadtrippohs website.

We didn't frame it right, but you can see the difference in height on either side of Jason's head.

I don't know if it's a joke, but we went, gawd dammit! 

POPS soda ranch before heading out of town.

Turns out route 66 is a super old 2 lane highway which comes in and out of I-40 - the way-newer and wider and quicker road. We thought we were going to be cool and take the old Route 66, but that's not happening. And we're cool with that.

Lucille's Famous Route 66 Gas Station.

Followed by Lucille's Roadhouse restaurant! Oooh, similarity.

Crossing into Texas!

Antiquing.

That's us!

Tower Conoco in Shamrock, TX

They have Tesla charging stations right in the back! Past and Future meeting in one shot.

Lots of tooting on this trip. 


We had dinner in Amarillo, TX and decided to power through and sleep in Santa Fe, NM. There was supposed to be a snow blizzard in Texas, and we wanted to avoid it. Of course it caught up to us. What should have been a few hours drive took a million hours. And the roads are not the same as in MN. Much more slick. Jason is an amazing driver and we felt safe, but visibility was nil. At one point we saw a pick-up truck flip into the ditch in the median. We pulled over and Jason went to check in on the passengers while I called 911. There was only the driver in the truck and he seemed fine, but his truck was in bad shape and he couldn't open his door. We waited in our car until the cops and paramedics came. That added time to the trip for sure!
We got to Santa Fe around 1:30 am and fell asleep fast.