On the way we took a small detour on old Route 66 so I could find a few geocaches. One place we looked was at this old gas station right on the road. The landowner left a little informative sign. Apparently their was a counterfeiting operation here during the depression. Also, not long ago somebody dumped a body. We didn’t see a body but somebody had dumped a kitten there. Very sad.
A little further on we stopped at “Pops.” A diner/gas station on route 66 near Arcadia. Built by an Oklahoma Oilman this place boasts over 400 kinds of soda pop. I believe it! We only had one each.
SuperPizzaBoy had a “Mexican” Coke, Sweetie a Grape Nehi.
I had some sort of Black Cherry Cream Soda. They were all great.
A little blast from the past, we went by the first house that Sweetie and I lived in when got married. Nearly 20 years ago.
Next, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. It was great. They had a exhibition on “Turner to Cezanne” from the National Museum of Wales. Plus the museum is know of their Dale Chihuly glass exhibit. Breathakingly beautiful works of glass. Check out his web site here.
We spent the night in downtown Oklahoma City. We ate dinner and saw a movie in Bricktown. Lots of canals, restaurants, bars, and a movie theater.
Next day, we ate breakfast and headed down to Duncan, Oklahoma to see the Chisholm Trail Heritage Center.
This is a small museum but well worth seeing. They have an interactive, hands on area, great for kids, and a regular museum with some great works. The star of the show is a multimedia presentation about a cattle drive. It is multi D. So when it rains you get sprinkled, you also smell the bacon and coffee on the campfire. When the longhorn’s stampede you feel it in your seat.
Next, it was back north to Norman to the University of Oklahoma. They are working hard in Norman to make a university for which the football team can be proud. The University is home to the Fred Jones Museum of Art. The basis of the art collection is the Weitzenhoffer collection the university received several years back. Works by Degas, Gauguin, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Van Gogh, among others are in the collection. They also had an exhibition of the Rennard Strickland Collection of Native American Art.
We really liked it but our eyes were getting a little glassy from what SuperPizzaBoy called our “Museumathon.” So we loaded up, drove to Oklahoma City to Johnnies for hamburgers and great ice tea and then booked it home.
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SPB is so cultured! You didn’t do the dinosaur museum at OU? It’s fun!
I didn’t know about the place in Duncan – my boys would love it.
What a great tour you took, some really interesting places we need to get to. We loved the Chihuly glass, esp that ceiling in the exhibit. I could have laid there for hours just basking in it’s beauty. How many caches did you pick up?
what a great road trip…i too think that that the Dale Chihuly glass piece was fab…absolutely.
black cherry cream soda sounds good right now.
thanks for sharing your adventure.
have a wonderful day.
that was a great road trip! and how the area has changed since i was last in oklahoma! terrific photos made me feel like i was right there with you guys, enjoying the fun!
have a great week!
I love road trips!! I enjoy it so much i wish not to reach the destination.what a lovely photos and thanks for sharing.:)
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What a great road trip. I felt like I was there. The only missing thing is me tasting one of those sodas. What you had sounded tasty.
You lucky bunch! What a neat combination of activities. I love to read about geocaching adventures.
Grape NeHi! Does Radar know about this place?
Hi Yogi,
Is that a new Header? Very nice! I don’t know about all that soda, but it sounds as though you had fun on the trip.
Sounds like a really fun time and you got some great pictures. I wish I would have drove up to Oklahoma when I lived in Texas.
sounds like a fun unique trip
Sounds like you had a fabulous time. I love the look of Pop’s! And I’ve always wanted to do Route 66, especially after seeing the TV show so many years ago.
This is the kind of thing we don’t have in the UK, these out of the way theme places. Just love the pop place, but I don’t think my guts would.
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LOL Yogi I am sorry, I thought you posted you had one of each of the pops. Deleted my post above. I have wanted to visit that place since I saw it talked about on the news one day.
Fantastic post! I love all the Americana stuff. But my favorite thing is the photo of the glass installation and the link to the artist’s web site. Thank you for that! I’d never heard of him before.
It looks like you all had a marvelous journey together through Oklahoma.
Route 66 looks pretty cool and I’m glad you didn’t see any tornadoes.
A wonderful tour. You all looked like you were having a great time. Love those road trips 🙂
Ha, I sympathize with that museumed out feeling after my weekend away – there’s only so much you can absorb but it looks like what you choose you choose well.
What an awesome road trip! Lots of interesting places to visit. Liked the information accompanied with the photos. Would like to try the Black Cherry Cream Soda too. mmmm.
Have a happy week! 🙂
Thanks for taking us along on your weekend adventure. Some really interesting places. I think I like the idea of the multimedia with smell-o-vision! Thanks for sharing.
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How lovely. I enjoy traveling with my blogging friends. Thanks for taking us along.
So glad you stopped for eats in between, a solid dietof culture can be exhausting. Wish I had been there to see the Impressionist. Sounds like a great and satisfying trip with a nice mix of culture and nostalgia. I enjoyed your post very much.
That’s a nice bottle sculpture. You do look like you have lots of fun. Great way to spend time with your family.
Wow, what an amazing road trip! I liked the bottle sculpture too, and it’s amazing there can be 400 kinds of soda pop!
Thank you so much for sharing your weekend adventure and the great pictures 🙂
~ Nadia
What a great trip. We visited Lake Superior Park, which looks like My Muskoka, and I wondered if anyone really was interested, but it is fun visiting another place this way.
That gas station sounds fascinating, what with the counterfeiting, dumped bodies, and geocaching. I’ll bet the museumathon was fun until the glassy eyes set in.
I’ve always thought the cattle drive era is fun to read about.