Greetings from sunny Clinton.
On Thursday evening I sort of crashed the VIP party over at the Rt. 66 Museum. Good thing I did as I was able to finally meet Kat & Darren from Australia. They are even nicer than via the ether.
Later that evening I forwent sleep in order to sit around the pool at an adjacent motel and have a nice natter with a bunch of Roadies. It is all Jane Dippel’s fault! 
I was up all too early on Friday morning to get over to the egroup brekkie. I don’t do 0700 well. However, the get together went very well. The food was decent, met lots of good folk and had a good time.
When it was over, I was stuck at the restaurant for a while as it was pouring down rain. Hmm, I thought, Oklahoma was dry.
I got back to the room and waited out the rain. The ride over to the Frisco Center was amusing. The young man took the wrong turn, he lives here, and we ended up going the wrong way – headed West! Oh well, we turned around at the next exit and took Rt. 66 back to town.
I spent a pleasant day at the festival. Lots of folk to chat with, exhibits to see and generally enjoy the day. There are a fair number of booths along main street.
Heading back with Steve Rider, also from Albany, he dropped by an antique mall to check on some Rt. 66 memorabilia. There was a “Pop Hicks” road sigh available and at a good price. Steve was wondering about buying it and putting it in the Clinton Rt. 66 Museum instead of his own “museum,” which is quite good.
At the banquet we chatted on this. He definitely wanted to do this. I offered to go in with him on the purchase price and donate it to the museum. We spoke to the curator of the museum, Pat Smith. She was delighted. Now Steve had to go early to the mall and buy it assuming someone else hadn’t bought it.
They hadn’t! Steve put it up for display in the small vendors’ room for the day, Saturday.
At the end of the day we took the sign over to the museum. We unveiled it, we had wrapped it in some butcher paper to be able to move it, and presented it to the museum. Mike Ward also joined Steve & me as donators. Later this week our pictures may grace a page in the Clinton newspaper.
Later Steve & I tried to eat at Lucille’s in Wetherford, but too many Roadies had the same idea. We hit another restaurant in town which was quite nice.
While there the clouds swirled, darkened and the heavens opened up. It poured! When it finally let up enough, we dashed for the car and out raced the cloud front back to Clinton.
We joined the ongoing pool party tho it was both quite chilly, & there was occasional rain. Nevertheless the nattering went on for hours.
I’ve been having fun and buying way too many T-shirts. The trek down 66 will see too many more T-shirts as well.
Collecting cards to put into the folder I’ll be taking on the trip. This will allow me to contact folk easier.
Basta per oggi!
