Another Trip Down 66

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For Christmas, my sister gave us a gift certificate for one night's stay at the Grand Avenue Bed & Breakfast  www.grand-avenue.com in Carthage Missouri.  We reserved a room on September 28th and extended the stay for a second night and used our daylight hours to explore the remains of highway 66 from Springfield Missouri to Narcissa Oklahoma. 

We traveled down most of the old highway, but missed some spots.  In Joplin Missouri, Route 66 took three different paths, so we may want to revisit there.  

In Kansas, Route 66 only travels 13 miles before entering Oklahoma, so the only part we missed was where we had to chose between going in front of the Walmart or going in back of the Walmart.  We chose the back route, so let me know if we missed anything. :)

In Oklahoma we traveled on the pre-1937 option (also called the "ribbon road") north of Narcissa.  WARNING: I advise that you don't travel this section going east to west.  Start on the west end and go down maybe a mile then turn around and go back.  There is not much to see on this section except the road itself and rest of it becomes REALLY ROUGH.  If you choose to tough it out anyway, please keep an eye open for one of my hubcaps that I lost somewhere along this section.   
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Did you get a chance to check out any of the Civil War related stuff in Carthage?  That's a pretty cool Christmas gift!!