Began early with a visit to the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum. This has something for those who died, those who were rescuers and those who survived. Most effective for me were the two walls at each end of a reflecting pool. The east wall is engraved with 9:01 our time of innocence, the bombing happened at 9:02, the west wall has 9:03 the time after which we were changed. Very powerful. Then I drove through parts of Route 66 that are ghost towns with some of the iconic articles still there all alone and unattended such as an old Phillips 66 gas station. Twenty miles south of Amarillo, Texas I took another detour to Palo Duro Canyon reported to be the second deepest canyon in the US. The exposed rocks began 200 million years ago. Finally I drove just west of Amarillo to "Cadillac. Ranch where 6 cars are buried nose down in a field. With that I called it a day.
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