Summer Trip Wrap-Up

Here are a few photos from the last three days on the road heading home.

These three modern signs are in Tulsa, OK. For a lot more modern Tulsa signs (and some vintage), see this website: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/cfdeaf12a9454c55aad4f5b5250d0d52

The Apache Motel sign in Tucumcari, NM — laying the in the parking lot for a couple of years now to prevent it from falling over:

Here’s a photo that I took of it in 2012:

At No Bull Prime Meats in Albuquerque, NM:

A former Tastee-Freez (now Mexican restaurant) in Albuquerque:

The streamline moderne Lembke House in Albuquerque:

Nearly home – a former gas station next to the Road Runner’s Retreat in Chambless, CA:

Here are the numbers from this trip:
35 days on the road, 14,027 miles (avg. 401 mi per day). I spent $2950 on gas and had to replace two tires ($464). There were 3 oil changes ($322) and about $80 in tolls. Museum admissions about $80. But no speeding tickets! I came home with about 5750 photos which are all up now at the website (roadarch.com). Remember, what you see here and at Flickr/Instagram is only a teeny tiny fraction of what’s at the site.

You won’t hear from me for at least a month as I’ll be putting together the lists and maps for next summer’s trip (focusing on Kentucky and Tennessee).

Once that’s done, I’ll be doing the grueling winter project going through all the maps in descriptions for all 3500+ pages at my website to see what’s changed since last year. I’ll be posting to this blog throughout this process (takes about six months) with the bad & good news about what’s been demolished/repainted/adapted, etc. since last year’s check.

I hope you’ve enjoyed tagging along virtually via the posts from this summer’s trip. Bye for now from me and my travel buddies: Orbit, Griswold, Dilly, & Gremlin at just one of our fave beaches in town: