My most humble apologies to ALL HALF of you! I'm not that way at all. That statement was actually more of an envy sort of comment. Us Ozarks Americans would be proud to have you Texans be a part of it all. After all, when the route leaves Oklahoma you'd be half way home. The route goes through our town of Springfield MO and I run it quite a bit. When our POCI chapter hosted the Nationals in '04, we offered a number of activities on route 66 between Carthage MO & Miami OK. Everyone truely seemed to enjoy. It offers a great cruise, not a lot of traffic, tremendous history and some wonderful places to eat, stay and play. But thanks for straightening me out.