Monday was a work day for me. I use multiple sources for gathering information about what is, or was, along Route 66. Some of my sources are books about Route 66, websites about Route 66, websites about towns along the route, various camping guides, my mapping software’s points-of-interest files, brochures I pick up here and there, and places we hear about from people we meet on the road.
The best way for me to then make sense of all that data is to put it in a spreadsheet where I can sort it various ways until I figure out what should come in what order. Then I map that order to get an overall sense of what is where.
I used to print out those maps until we learned how unreliable they are. Now we follow the turn by turn guide in one of my books along with a printout of my spreadsheet to tell us what to look for along those turns.
After hours of doing all that–just for the rest of Missouri–we took a break and cut my hair. What?! Some of you are now yelling? They cut her hair?!
Yup. With barber clippers. I have a #12 guide that goes on our Wahl Hair Clippers which keeps the clippers 1 1/2 inches from my head. We run that every which way over my scalp until the hair stops falling. Then Dave uses a barber scissors to trim around my ears and across the nape. At the end I look pretty well shorn but it sure makes it easy to take care of my hair until it grows too long to manage well then we do it again.
When that was done we decided we should drive up to the dump. The grey water holding tank was getting full enough that I was afraid it would start backing up the shower drain when I was washing off all that loose hair.
Then we decide we had earned a treat so we went to the Big Chief Dakota Steakhouse for dinner. This is another one of those Route 66 institutions that now goes my some other name but the neon sign is still there and the building feels authentic.
And I have one of my favorite things–leftover steak!
TTYL,
Linda
