Route 66 is one of the few remaining and remembered byways from the early days of cross country motor travel. In a day before the interstate system and standardized routes—when motor clubs marked roads and popular thruways had their own name—Route 66 was the Mother Road.
With the C11 Avion Ultra truck camper shell reassembled, we return to our road trip. This time, we head west. First stop: Oklahoma! Almost...
With one-stop left in Oklahoma it was time to be introduced to winter camping in the van. We did successfully graduate from kindergarten so we had a basic understanding that winter is cold and the closer to the equator you get, the warmer it is. Yet, we overvalued Oklahoma being considered "South." While we were assured that ice storms are not common this time of year, that is very, very cold comfort when you are sleeping in a van in below-freezing temperatures. We woke up in a Pilot parking lot, flanked by roaring trucks and with an iced-over windshield.
Well, looks like winter is rolling in. We made it out to Oklahoma and a break with friends just before torrential rains came to meet us from the west. We enjoyed one-day leeway of riding around on four-wheelers across an…