Bombing, Route 66, and a Giant Burger

Driving north, we headed to Oklahoma City and visited the Oklahoma City National Memorial.  Seeing so much rubble, a destroyed office, and the chairs representing those killed (with small ones for the children), was very moving.  The museum in the building next door was presented in a timeline format explaining how the events unfolded from the early morning of the blast, until the conviction of those involved.   

 

the memorial with the chairs representing each person

a picture of the building after the explosion

a preserved office in the building next door that was damaged
where the museum is now

Next, we headed to Clinton for the Route 66 Museum.  It was a great presentation showing the highway, cars, expenses, and culture for each decade starting in the 1940's with the building of the road through the present. 

In Lawton, once a mining town, now just a restaurant, we stopped for a famous Meers burger, a whopping 7 inches of delicious longhorn beef, and a side of cheese fries, each served in a pie tin.