Set off this morning with not so far to go as there is a lot to see on this section of road. This is a pony bridge near Hinton and was in the film "The Grapes of Wrath" directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda.




This area was just past the pony bridge and shows the way the rivers eat through the red dirt.

Further along the highway is this famous roadside diner, Lucille's Road House. She ran it for over 50 years and it only closed when she died in 2000.

We saw lots of windfarms in the area and came past a manufacturer of the blades in Weatherford. They were very big when you got close to them - this is just one blade.

This is the Oklahoma Route 66 museum in Clinton opened in 1995. By this time it was very hot outside so I had to buy a Route 66 baseball cap (see later photo). Each room was set out in the style of a different decade with music to match.

www.route66.org

This is a real Route 66 diner transported from its original site and renovated (note the smart cap)

There were lots of these wind turbines on either side of the road for a good 5 mile stretch. Surprisingly they did not look out of place in such big country.

Just near our hotel we visited the Stafford Air & Space Museum dedicated to Thomas Stafford who piloted Apollo X to the moon (but didn't land). We were just about the only ones there and it was a fantastic place with lots of exhibits.

www.staffordspacecenter.com

We found some lovely stretches of Route 66 today and sometimes felt as if we were miles from anywhere.