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Self portrait, Tucumcari.
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I won't dare "walk on by" this Isaac Hayes mural in Memphis, and I thank you for not walking on by this immense photo album!
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Back in Memphis, the trip almost done, and I'm celebrating being back in the South with vegan barbecue from Imagine Vegan.
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My favorite display at Hot Springs National Park - a cascade of scalding naturally hot water pouring into a very hot basin - it feels so good to put your hands in it...for about 4 seconds.
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I had a traditional hot springs soak here Sunday morning, feeling all refreshed for the big drive home.
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The mountains of Hot Springs heading into the night, from the West Mountain summit.
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I used to think this hydrotherapy setup looked like a torture device - little did I know I'd hop in one and love it within 24 hours of taking this photo.
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Hot Springs had its seedy sides, but rooms like this one in the Fordyce showed they were at least refined hoodlums.
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The Hot Springs Sanitarium between the bathhouses.
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Wandering Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park.
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Homemade nutty buddy from dairy bar par excellence King Kone in Hot Springs AR.
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Early morning driving east on the Talimena Scenic Byway along the Oklahoma/Arkansas border.
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If you've seen "The Last Picture Show", you likely recognize this setting, generally the same as it was in 1971 when the movie was made, same as it was in 1951 when the movie took place, Archer City TX.
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That billboard speaks the truth, and in the man's hometown. Ah-hah!
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McKenzie Lake, a rare body of water in the Texas Panhandle plains.
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The Palo Duro Canyon lookout on TX-207.
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It's not a Route 66 trip if you haven't had pie - this one being green chile apple.
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And a lot more than 1139 miles to Peachtree City, especially the way I'm going.
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The ghost town of Glen Rio on the Texas/New Mexico border.
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Tucumcari Mountain, appropriately car-shaped - I couldn't leave without seeing it.
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No better place to observe a Route 66 sunrise than an auto junkyard, Tucumcari.
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Impending sunlight shining alongside the classic diner stained glass lighting at Kix On 66, Tucumcari.
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The neon buzzing as dawn approaches down Route 66.
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The doowop carport of another great Tucumcari motel, the Safari.
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The classic Tucumcari promo sign from back in the day.
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A night crawl down Tucumcari's Route 66 showed there's still some good neon out there.
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This was the original neon in 1939 before the "new" sign showed up in the early 50s.
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Just as moths are drawn to light on a hot summer night, so are the Route 66 enthusiasts drawn to the Blue Swallow's neon.
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A better look at that rotary phone, the first time I used one since Grandma's house in the mid-80s! A party line, no less.
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Room #2 at the Blue Swallow - original ceilings, light fixtures, furniture, and rotary phone! Built in 1939, furniture onsite in the early 40s.
