Day 10 - Kansas
We came back through Kansas, which has only 13 miles of Rte 66 in it's southeast corner. But if you have seen the movie "Cars", you will recognize some of these places and characters from which it was adapted.
Day 21 - Williams, California to Wilsonville, Oregon
Over 500 miles today in about 10 1/2 hours of drive time. I was tempted to get past Portland tonight in order to miss the morning rush hour, which is brutal. Oh well, I guess I will just have to sleep in and wait for traffic to clear! A few things made today more interesting. Somewhere around Medford, OR a patrol car came onto the freeway in no special hurry, but then turned on their lights and started weaving down all three northbound lanes. They did this for maybe half a mile while slowing down the whole way. It was effectively herding the traffic into to a group of slow moving vehicles. When the patrol man/woman had us all down to a walking pace, she parked her patrol car across the three lanes, jumped out and grabbed a truck tire from the middle of the freeway. She drug it to the side, ran back to her car and took off! Never been part of a car herding event before. Next up was meeting Ken Tidwell in Salem. He is a member o...
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