- 2012/04/27 Friday 00:04:00
http://www.gpsies.com/map.do?fileId=wzvngeoaugcfngui

- 2012/04/27 Friday 01:22:56
Bed

I want to get up and start early, however, this is a late bed time due to me being a slave to the technology yet again.

- 2012/04/27 Friday 08:23:23
Up

- 2012/04/27 Friday 11:47:24
Heading out

We did not prepare nearly enough, and so we are leaving later than we wanted to.  However, we are not stressing about it because we have decided to make this a journey where we really have no goals in mind other than to be on the road.

- 2012/04/27 Friday 12:39:29
Parents

On the way out, Suyen called Mom.  They are having a garage sale.  We decided to stop by to have coffee and check out the sale.

- 2012/04/27 Friday 14:56:12
Walmart
1 (660) 679-3151
Fran Ave, Butler, MO 64730
http://m.google.com/u/m/dU2dIu

This is our first pee break -- one of many to come.  Drinking diet sodas, water and coffee to keep us occupied and full for our diet also makes it so we have to stop often.

- 2012/04/27 Friday 16:33:24
Casey's General Store
1 (417) 237-0634
917 West Central Avenue, Carthage, MO 64836
http://m.google.com/u/m/x7hVw2

We have finally turned in to begin our journey.  First, however, we have to stop at our other favorite convenience store, Caseys.  Of course, we are here for a bathroom break and to stock up on diet soda.

- 2012/04/27 Friday 16:53:25
Battle of Carthage Civil War
1 (417) 237-7060
205 Grant St, Carthage, MO 64836
http://m.google.com/u/m/wCgd8U

Our first stop on our journey is downtown Carthage, Missouri.  We walked around and took some pictures.  We found a great antique store, however, we have arrived here so late, that we could only visit one store.  This store has a lot of old soda machines, juke boxes, star wars memorabilia and toys, and all sorts of neat mid-century items.  Carthage is worth a re-visit.

- 2012/04/27 Friday 18:02:03
Casey's General Store
1 (417) 237-0634
917 West Central Avenue, Carthage, MO 64836
http://m.google.com/u/m/zSOE88

Our intention is to drive west.  I wanted to snap some pictures of the Route 66 Drive In, since I have seen it many photo books an brochures.  However, we got bad directions and slow data connection, and headed east a ways ( a few miles).  We got a picture of an old motel by a small lake, and headed back to Caseys to regroup.

- 2012/04/27 Friday 18:27:36
66 Drive-In Theatre
1 (417) 359-5959
17231 Old 66 Boulevard, Carthage, MO 64836
http://m.google.com/u/m/xIfe3C

We got some pictures and some video of Route 66 Drive-In in Carthage.  It is on the west side of town on old route 66.  People were already lining up for the 20:30 showing.  Hunger Games is playing here.  The glass block ticket booth is nice.  An ajoining metal building to the property looks like it serves as an office for the Drive-In.  There were parts for the sign inside.  I was hoping to find another theater like this along the way to watch a movie.  It is too early for us to end our journey today.

- 2012/04/27 Friday 19:39:31
Superman On Sixty Six
1 (417) 673-7750
221 West Main Street, Carterville, MO 64835
http://m.google.com/u/m/zUxzL1

SuperTam is the real name of this Ice Cream Parlor on 66 in Carterville, Missouri.  Carterville's dowtown area has a lot of empty buildings in need of restoration and it is a photographers dream spot.  I met a photographer from Mississippi using old fashioned large format film cameras to shoot photos.  His name is David Wharton, and he is the Director of Documentary Projects and Assistant Professor of Southern Studies at The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi www.olemiss.edu

He is in Springfield to do a show of his photos at the gallery on campus.  His two companions -- one was a friend and fellow teacher in Springfield nd the other was a fellow traveler, were also there taking pictures.  I did my first interview for my video documentation of our journey.  Golden hour was upon us as we were doing our thing.   I spied a place across the street that advertised itself as the Superman Museum and Ice cream parlor, which was actually why we lurched to a stop here in Carterville.  It just so happened that we saw these three people taking pictures in town.

So we came into the parlor, and met the owner.  He enjoyed talking to us and told us everything he could about his shop and about the route through this area.  Suyen, who was skeptical with the idea behind this adventure, began to warm up to the idea and share the vision I had behind it.  We broke our diet and had ice cream.

- 2012/04/27 Friday 20:36:10
Webb City, MO
http://m.google.com/u/m/zzzAya

- 2012/04/27 Friday 21:00:25
Joplin, MO
http://m.google.com/u/m/d7RwIH

- 2012/04/27 Friday 21:15:44
Baxter Springs, KS 66713
Baxter Springs, KS
http://m.google.com/u/m/dxqT3j

- 2012/04/27 Friday 21:34:05
Commerce, OK
http://m.google.com/u/m/BfSzeB

- 2012/04/27 Friday 22:00:18
Miami, OK
http://m.google.com/u/m/AdiTsi

- 2012/04/27 Friday 22:38:37
Buffalo Ranch Travel
1 (918) 257-4264
21600 S Highway 69 , Afton, OK 74331, 74331
http://m.google.com/u/m/xXyuzv

After Miami Oklahoma, we drove on a strech of the road which was about 9 feet wide, which was fun to do in the middle of the night.  We thought we had lost the route for a while until we found a marker.  We decided it was time to look for a motel

- 2012/04/27 Friday 22:54:34
Tom Cat Corner
1 (918) 786-6622
Hwy 59 N, Grove, OK 74344
http://m.google.com/u/m/z53650

We trusted google maps perhaps a bit too much.  It lead us down here to what we thought was the Route 66 Motel.  It turns out we were just acroas tge street from it at the Buffalo Ranch Travel Center.  In the middle of tge night I had to get out here at this little roadside bbq joint to ask directions.  We did our turn around and headed back up the road.

- 2012/04/27 Friday 23:20:34
Route 66 Motel @23:20,4/27
Afton, OK 74331, USA
http://m.google.com/u/m/zXOZ1W

We found this place after consulting google and yelp, once we found some working data.  Tbis is a family run motel.  I believe the family is originally from Pakistan.