Well we’re back. 22 hours door to door – Tulsa to Huddersfield. Tulsa had started to cool down as we left for the airport, in fact it rained for a few minutes en route. So it was sad to leave. Gail had been the perfect hostess during our stay, even giving up her bed, her [...]
Archive for August, 2010
22 Aug
Jake and Elwood
So on Saturday night, we had a late supper with Elvis, Jake and Elwood in a diner with red vinyl seats and an old (faux) Wurlitzer. And it’s on Route 66! However not so you’d notice, as it’s a rest stop on one side of I44 – Tulsa, at a point where the Mother Road [...]
20 Aug
Chicken Fried
There’s a whole ‘chicken fried’ thing going on down here. Chicken fried this and chicken fried that seems to be on most (well, many) menus. There seems to be no ‘one’ definition for what it means other than it’s fried like a chicken! I had my first ‘chicken fried’ last week in Vinita, Oklahoma. Chicken [...]
12 Aug
Oklahoma
I’ve spent a long week working on the RSC Moodle. I’m not overly happy with what I’ve done, but that might be just self-doubt, we’ll have to see. [written Monday, I'm much happier now-Thursday] Friday last week, was our 6th Wedding Anniversary – yet another one spent away from home. I got the anniversary gift [...]
3 Aug
Route 66 – a little more
I now realise that my previous post was a bit rushed. I started the post just after we’d got back from the trip. I’d uploaded some of my pictures to Flickr and started to write – but I was tired and know now that I missed out some important parts of the day. First of [...]
2 Aug
Route 66
It would be easy to say that ‘doing Route 66′ had always been a dream of mine, but it hasn’t, not really, not in fact. It’s been more of a whim, a thought, a perchance or a maybe – something to tick off an as yet unformed (and hopefully unneeded) bucket list. But nevertheless, ‘something’ [...]
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