08/05/01 Tulsa (OK) – Clinton (OK) 390 km

Sunday morning was great. We had breakfast in Tulsa in a typical American restaurant where the waitress is the typical waitress of the movies with the shorts and the notepad and offers you fried eggs cooked in 10 different ways. We chose the place relying on the outside looks, as we used to do with motels, and the truth is that is was a good choice (Sally´s Café). We had a king´s breakfast and besides we realised that it wasn´t much more expensive that buying breakfast in the supermarket as we had done in previous days.

In summer the temperatures are very high in Oklahoma, and this section was one of the worst in terms of heat (even if we still had Las Vegas, that was very hard as well). Even if we had planned to set off very early, we were late and we had to bear all the heat. According to our information, in Stoud there was a very popular café called The Rock Café that used to be open 24 hours. But due to our bad luck for this kind of things, Sunday was the closing day. We think it is worth visiting, we glimpsed through the window and it looked very interesting.

Just at midday we entered Oklahoma City. It looked like the town was dead. This is the town where years ago Timothy McVeigh had committed an outrage against a Federal Office. During the summer of 2001 the issue had come back to the media since the author had been executed in the electric chair, and the debate over the death penalty was again in the spotlight. We saw many Federal Buildings but we did not see the memorial that was built in the memory of the victims of that outrage, and there was nobody to ask about either.

We went ahead and we arrived in Clinton quite early. We took advantage to see the museum dedicated to the Route 66. In the museum you can get an idea of what the Route 66 has meant in different periods of the recent American history: starting form the construction in the 20´s , going through the 40-50 in which this road was "The main street of America" and ending in our days in which only the nostalgia use the road. I had red a lot about the Route but Josune learned many things and she enjoyed the visit. They show a video about the Route 66 and Josune fell in love with some of the places she saw in it, so afterwards she was asking me all the time when would we arrive to such or such other place she had seen in the video. The places she loved most were the palm trees of Santa Monica and the Black Hills in California.

In a motel that was in front of the museum, they announced that Elvis had slept there, but the rooms were quite expensive. We went to the Glancy Motel, that had a very nice sign outside. Clinton is a small place so there were not many options to have dinner. We went to a Pizza place called Marzio´s Pizza, that was OK.