Day 10 Aug. 9

Stroud to Yukon 

Mileage 87


OK so we are Canadians in Canadian Country in Yukon Oklahoma do not ask why seems weird to me.  I always wanted to see the Yukon just never figured it would be this hot and windy.

The the temperature today was 98F with head winds of 20 mph making the Little Ruckus bounce in the gust but we did well with no problems. We finished early and retired to the AC of the hotel.  

Dianne was up early and we started off with questionable sky and an odd breeze that pick up into a outride hard blow.   The route was all on State road 66 until we reached Oklahoma City where the Bike route takes you though some historic 1930 communities which were interesting and well kept.

The Towns Passed through today were:

  • Stroud
  • Davenport
  • Chandler
  • Wellston
  • Luther
  • Edmond
  • Oklahoma City 
  • Bethany
  • Yukon (Avid hotel)


Davenport was interesting we did a short side trip to see murals and the old brick road.  Never would want to ride far on brick roads.  Then to turn around road through parts of the town.  It definitely has seen better days.  I would say some of the cars were worth more than the homes.   In the hay days it had a canning factory, 3 cotton gins and oil industry.  Sad to see a town slowly dry up like this one has.


Welston the next town was the opposite Route 66B passed though well maintained neighborhoods and a pleasant small city park.  


The roads were good today but in some cases just 2 lanes with no shoulders.  So zipped along and would pull over to let the cars pass. There was one car that seemed to feel that having to use his brakes was a volition of his god given right to drive all the time at 65 MPH.


An interesting thing is they paint white swishes in the road to show school zones.

There was field of these old pumps or steam engines (I think pumps)

Murals and a section of brick Road in Davenport
Museum Chandler

Train outside of Chandler
Army base and National Guard building in  Chandler
Old building in Luther
Cool Gas station

Motorcycle Museum (museum?)

Another old bridge
Dianne Arriving in Yukon Canadian in Canadian
How could I not take a picture of a flour mill


Sights seen

  • Giant Statue of Indian chief
  • 6 deer lawn ornaments
  • 3 buffalo statues
  • 1


    with a Volkswagen bug window.  Road was too busy to stop
  • 2 old route 66 bridges
  • 3 horse statues
  • 3 universities
  • 1 field of cows
  • 1 statue of a dinosaur 
  • 11 churches (the one in Dvenport would hold all the people that live there)
  • 3 schools 
  • 7 police cars (4 were at a a crash sight where a car hit a motorcycle. (sobered us up a little)
  • 4 slow armadillos 2 raccoons one possum
  • 3 big horn sheep that looked like they escaped from an exotic animal farm beside the road.
  • More trash than I wanted count but can safely say it looks like someone on the route had a taste for Keystone beer
  • 9 bug strikes today

Comments

  1. UnknownAugust 10, 2021 at 6:04 AM

    Hi Dianne and Allan! It looks like you are having great fun. I love the list of sights seen and photos.
    Be safe in your travels.
    Janice Hatler

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  2. Allan and DianneAugust 10, 2021 at 2:39 PM

    Thanks Janice I think the PD self training helped both of us make up our minds to do this this trip thanks a lot.

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