Traveling the Main Street of America 2009. June 16 - 20, 2009. We left LA and took a side trip to Yuma, AZ to see my aunt and uncle. Would I do it again? Day 17, June 15, 2009.

Just before crossing into Missouri. To take the short cut to get there. This was on the side of the road in southern Illinois. I remember seeing these years ago. They are embedded in the side of the tree trunk. The ramps were here first and the tree grew up between them. Nathan with an Illinois shield and fighting the wind.

A still very much in business drive-in theater. There were ruins of many more along the way. There are many, many vacant and abandoned structures that were once motels, gas stations, and stores. Long gone, nothing but ghosts there now. A very nice leisurely drive in western Missouri and I have the road to myself for now.

This place is almost a ghost town. My view of the same courthouse. Screen shot from the Grapes of Wrath as the Joads pass by the Sayre Oklahoma courthouse. A mural and a little bar. Very good museum here too.

A railroad trestle that been out of use a long, long time. Well, when you gotta go you gotta go. The sun sets on another day. I wonder who lived in this house and what they did. This was once a motel. This place has also seen better days.