From Tucumcari, New Mexico

American Indian Museum in Ohio, Indian Trading Posts in Oklahoma, Ohio River in Louisville, Kentucky, old Highway 66 and the biggest rocking chair in the world in Missouri, the biggest cross in the western hemisphere in Texas, the purple trees along Interstates 64, 44 and 40 to name a few landmarks.

I decided to stay here tonight instead of, for example, Amarillo, Texas or the more sophisticated Albuquerque, New Mexico.

It seems like the week went by so fast going through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky (where I had Kentucky Fried Chicken but don't laugh), Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and now I am in New Mexico.

It has been an emotionally potent trip so far and I have enjoyed every mile with a smile on my face and the sun on my head. I have sat in the car for hours and I have just waited for the towns, cities and states to arrive. And they have so far been present to all the rendez-vous.

It will take more than one post for a detailed description of all that I saw, did, said and experienced. I have a bunch of pictures some of which are hard to believe but hey, I didn't do it.
It was there and I took it. I hope to post the pictures sometime next week.

I will be in Arizona probably Sunday. I am beginning the best part of the trip and I don't have to rush anymore...

If you want to look at a map, I am going west on I-40 all the way to Flagstaff, then head south to Phoenix.

So long.