It’s been a long day, and I’m exhausted. We started in Oklahoma City at the Skeletons Museum of Osteology, then headed down Route 40 and Route 66 with stops in Canute and Elk City before getting back on the highway and driving into Texas for an afternoon of hiking at bee-you-tiful Palo Duro Canyon State Park. We’re overnighting in Amarillo (Tex-mex and margaritas, thank you very much) just minutes down the road from Cadillac Ranch, where we plan to start the day tomorrow.

Truth be told, I’m too spent to write. So it’s just pictures today. Enjoy.

Skeletons Museum

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Road trip day 2—basic stats:

• Start time: 9am
• Distance covered: ~285 miles
• States: Missouri, Oklahoma

For those who are keeping track, that’s about half the distance covered on day 1, and also about half of what my husband originally thought we’d cover. It’s about two-thirds the distance I initially planned on, but the day was worth the slowdown. Continue reading →

I’ve spent my summer thinking about (dreading) the road trip to bring my son to graduate school in California; today it began when we drove away from our house at 7:15a.m., only an hour later than we had hoped. That’s pretty much an on-time performance in our house. Hooray us. Continue reading →