Four new states for me

We have covered a lot of new-to-me territory in the last few days.

Now there are only 8 states in the lower 48 that we haven't traveled in since June (KS, TN, WV, ME, MI, FL, AR, and KY)

We started out in New Hampshire on Saturday Dec. 9th. We drove west on I-90 until we turned south at Cleveland Ohio. After cutting across the middle of Indiana and Illinois. and staying overnight at Effingham IL overnight and entered Missouri at St Louis in the morning rush hour. Despite the time of day, we took the mid town route rather than the beltway so that I could see the Gateway Arch.

Since then we have traveled Oklahoma, the panhandle of Texas and New Mexico.
We entered OK just at dusk- and drove most of the way after dark. Interstate 40 follows the route of Historic Route 66 (all the way to California) and true to that old road there are tourist traps or casinos about every 20 miles. Here is one at Big Cabin- i t features a giant Indian statue in its parking lot.

We entered Texas in the morning- it is also pretty flat- but is was a beautiful day, warm and sunny, so we were happy

New Mexico was also full of tourist traps-- and they caught us. We decided we needed a plant for our truck. Here it is

We arrived in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, and delivered our yogurt on Thursday morning. Hope to be back in the Puget Sound by Tuesday and shortly thereafter in Kettle Falls