ARIZONA ADVENTURE DAY FOURTEEN .. LAST DAY!!!

Yep .. this will be our last day on the road!!!  It has been an awesome adventure but it will be soooooo nice to sleep in our own beds and NOT spend our whole day sitting in a car chugging down the highway!!!!  We checked out of the hotel in Oklahoma City about 8:15 ..

You know me .. I can't resist the Red, White and Blue blowing in the wind ..

Stroud .. 9:23 ..

 Time for gas and a snack for the road .. BUTTERFINGER CAPPACINO!!!  Love Butterfingers .. I HAVE to try this!!!

Chuckling .. you never know who you're going to run into .. or where .. Ken's waiting for me to get my Cappacino and who walks up but John Stuart!!  John was the Square Dance caller when we were taking Square Dance lessons AND he works at Sapaugh where we bought our car!!!  Turns out he was delivering a car to a place in Oklahoma for Sapaugh and just happened to stop at the same place we did!!! 

Oh Yes .. of course we couldn't walk out of there without a couple of Krispy Kremes ..

Shortly after leaving the gas station we hit the toll road in Depew .. 9:49 .. $4.00 please ..

Now we can enjoy the Krispy Kremes  .. Yuuuuummmmm ...

Verdigris .. 10:57 ..

Big Cabin .. 10:18 ..

Quapaw .. 12:00 ..

See that sign ahead .. it says MISSOURI!!!

Missouri Welcome Center .. Joplin, MO .. 12:04 ..

License plates everywhere ..

There's Maxine .. gotta love the crabby old lady .. LOL!!!  She's gonna be in Branson .. maybe we need to go see her!!! 

Joplin Petro .. 12:26 ..

Look what we found at the Iron Skillet .. our last smashed penny from our Arizona Adventure!!! 

Sarcoxie .. 1:18 .. we're almost to Springfield ..

Mount Pleasant .. 1:27 ..

Mount Vernon .. 1:49 .. Relics Antique Mall .. he even stopped and let me shop!!!  Didn't get out of there until 3:11 .. almost an hour and a quarter .. that's not bad .. LOL!!

You can see my "treasures" in the back of the car .. see how happy I am as I use my new selfie stick ..

Hmmmmm .. Kenny's not looking as happy as me!!  But he should be happy!!!  He has hated my ladder back cane bottom chairs that sit around our table in the breakfast area ever since he's known me .. and we have been looking for just the right chair to replace them .. and finally I found some chairs I think I can be happy with!!!  He actually was very happy about the chairs .. I think the look on his face is because I'm flopping that selfie stick around like a maniac trying to both of us AND the chairs in the picture .. LOL!!!

Devil's Elbow .. 5:45 ..

I know it's blurry but guess where it is .. Bradley Street stoplight in Festus .. this is where we turn right to go home .. 7:56!  Let me see .. we left our hotel at about 8:30 AM .. it's now 7:56 PM .. so it took us about 11 1/2 hours to get from Oklahoma City to Festus!!! 

There it is .. the garage door is going up .. we will soon be inside our very own home .. and able to sleep in our very own bed .. how wonderful is that!!! 

11 days of driving out on the highways for this huge adventure and every one of those days / nights we traveled safely .. and we made it safely home to Sawyers Ridge .. Thank You Lord for watching over us through this awesome adventure and getting us through each days travels safely and back to our wonderful home at Sawyers Ridge safely!!! 

I can't close this story of our awesome adventure without showing you the pictures that Jeremiah gave us to bring home with us ..they now reside on our refrigerator door where they will stay for a long long time!!!  Memories of two adorable little boys in Arizona .. Jeremiah and Caleb!!! 

ARIZONA ADVENTURE DAY THIRTEEN!!!

We had an exciting start for DAY THIRTEEN of our Arizona Adventure .. first stop was Toot 'n Totum Gas in Amarillo .. 8:56 in the AM!!!  Gas was $1.96 a gallon!!

You've heard the song "Cadillac Ranch" right????  Well .. there it is ..

10 Cadillacs buried nose deep in the ground .. and a little farther up the road we came across more Cadillacs ..

We went inside the gift shop hoping for a penny smasher but no such luck!!!! 

Wanta' know a little more about the Cadillac Ranch??? Click on the link below ..

CADILLAC RANCH AMARILLO TEXAS!!!

Still in Amarillo .. 9:29 ..

Groom .. 10:00 ..

Clarendon .. Rest area .. 10:19 ..

McLean .. 10:34 ..

Erick .. 11:38 ..

Oklahoma .. 11:38 ..

Welcome to Oklahoma ..

The Little Debbie truck .. I love Little Debbies!!!

Foss .. 12:34 ..

More of the Route 66 .. Love's Gas station in Hinton .. 1:22 ..

Whoops .. Krispy Kremes .. who can resist????

Yuuuummmmm!!! 

Calumet .. 1:45 ..

Oklahoma City .. 2:17 ..

Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum .. 3:51 ..

       

For more about the memorial click on the link below ..

THE OUTDOOR SYMBOLIC MEMORIAL!!

Next stop .. Bass Pro!!  Something very special here .. you'll know it when you see it ...

Yep .. there it is .. the PENNY SMASHER!!! 

And a very short distance from the Bass Pro Shop ..

Ken and I did the canal walk .. it began by walking under this bridge .. My granddaughter Jacqueline and her family once lived in Oklahoma City and as we were walking here I wondered if she and her husband Chris had ever been to the Memorial or ever walked here!!!  I found out later that yes they had!!! 

Time for Supper .. where else but Cracker Barrel .. we love Cracker Barrel!!! 

Our home for the night .. Sleep Inn ..

Good Night All .. See you in the morning!!