Route 66 & Beyond

The Trip Home The trip home was pleasant, but somewhat anti-climactic. We spent three days taking a roundabout route from Kearney, Nebraska to Olathe, Kansas where we spent the first night. From Olathe we followed the Jefferson Highway south where we intersected Route 66 near Riverton, Kansas. We then headed northeast, following Route 66 to Lebanon, Missouri where we spent the second night. The next day we finished our Route 66 - Missouri trip with a "frozen concrete" at Ted Drewe's like we always do. At this point we weren't sure where we were going, we just knew that we have to be back in Brevard by the end of the following day. Sharon plugged our current location and destination into the GPS and instructed it to find us a way home without taking any Interstate highways. The route led us through some very scenic towns in Illinois and Kentucky. By the time we reached Tennessee it was getting late so we spent the night in the second Lebanon in two nights. In the m

Tour Day 9 -The Parade Into Kearney The final day of our tour was the "victory lap" into Kearney, Nebraska, the midpoint of the Lincoln Highway. Here we would meet our counterparts from the western tour who had started out in San Francisco. We were to drive in a caravan to the local community college, then get positioned in chronological order from oldest to newest vehicle. We received a police escort from there to Highway 30 which would take us to Kearney. Just outside of Kearney we stopped to  prepare for the final parade into town. The purpose of this stop was to get back into sequence if problems arose, and to coordinate timing with the other group so we could arrive simultaneously. This 1913 Stevens Duryea drove 1,200 miles from Mansfield, Ohio to lead our tour group into town. A police and motorcycle escort led us into town where we passed the western group traveling in the opposite direction. There were thousands of people watchin