Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico (Grand Canyon)

We arrived in at Tulsa, Oklahoma late at night and had to pitch up illegally again!!!! Next day we leave to check out the city, this could be done in a few minutes, but trying to get out the place was a bit of a nightmare, the signs just send you round in circles!! After about an hour of driving in Tulsa we get out and on the route 66 which is sign posted all the way to Oklahoma City, thankfully!! We arrive and go to the cinema then worry about somewhere to pitch up at midnight, not the greatest idea we've ever had. So we end up dumping it at a Uni then getting up at 6 am to move it to the Route 66 park. Checked out the city, and went to the museum of memorial of the Oklahoma City terrorist bomb in Apr 95, this was very sad and interesting!! We wnet bowling in the Route 66 bowling alley that night and was very cheap!!!! Amarillo was the next stop, and there was lots to do en rote. First we checked out the Route 66 park just by the lake we camped at, this took two seconds as it was all pretty shut and couldn't go up the observation tower. Next was a Route 66 automotive museum, we found it only to find it was closed due yo a robbery!! Further up the road was another museum on the history of the route that was quite cool, then across the road was the motel where Elvis stayed once but the people in there were very unfriendly so took a photo and left!! Next stop was the famous Graffitti Cafe which was no longer a cafe but a nut shop so couldn't get the famous soda we were hoping for, but got some tasty honey roasted nuts instead!! Our next town was called Elk City, this was home to the best pie in the world and the cafe was called Country Dove, a very religious place and the staff were so friendly they sat chatting for ages, long after they were meant to close!! We ploughed through more miles and not much to see on the road and then we hit Texas. We visited the Plo Druro Canyon in a place called Canyon, you can drive round it and was pretty cool, then we went to the uni for a swim. On our way out of Amarillo we went to the Don Harrington Discover Centre that was ace, then out in one of the fields are 10 random Cadillacs buried halway down, its called the cadillac ranch. On the road again and we hit the Midway Point Cafe, Adrian, which is exactly half way so we had a piece of pie and coffee there to celebrate!!!! Next stop was Santa Rosa, we went to a barn dance that night and got evil looks from the locals!! We stayed at the Santa Rosa State Park and Lake for free the next night. We checked out the Blue Hole in Santa Rosa just before we got on the road for Santa Fe. Journey to Santa Fe was boring, we stopped off at the mini Las Vegas and pretty much drove through Santa Fe then headed on to Alberquerque in hope that the big balloon festival was still on. We arrived late and kipped at a service station and in the morning we were woken to really heavy rain and the disappoinment of the balloon festival had finished just a couple of days before!! Typical!! We went to a place with the Petroglyph National Monument and was pretty much lost on me, it looked like someone had graffittied loads of rocks!! Then I ate my first Taco Bell, and possibly my last!! Back on the road to Gallup. We visited the painted desert and the petrified forest. It was scorchio but a very big State Park, its 28 miles long and amazing scenery and yet more petroglyphs!!!! After there was a place called Holbrook who had the Wig Wam Motel, we nearly stayed here but there wasn't anything to do so carried on up the road to Meteor City, the site of a meteor crash, this was pretty awesome. The crater itself is 1 mile deep and 2.4 miles across. We didn't have much time here at all as we made it by the skin of our teeth as usual!! Then onto Flagstaff where the noisiest trains in the world are. We just had a look round the town, not much to it here so got back on the raod to the Grand Canyon via a place called Williams where we had more cake and there was lots of Route 66 photo opportunities!! We arrived at Grand Canyon and pitched up at an RV site actually in the park and luckily for us they had just had a cancellation so we parked up and went to the canyon in time to see the sun set which was amazing. We went to some rangers brief that evening about wildlife that was intersting