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\"Day-3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

December 29, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seems everything really is bigger in Texas, especially the state! We did go through Oklahoma today, another first for us. The state total for the day was two: Oklahoma and Texas (again!).<\/p>\n

\"Katie<\/a><\/p>\n

Welcome to Texas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Total Miles for Day: 559
\nTotal Miles for Trip: 1600<\/p>\n

\"Jalapenos\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Trying the Texas Toothpicks<\/strong><\/p>\n

We chose to eat at local restaurants today; lunch was at Prairie Kitchen in Ardmore, OK and dinner was at El Manantial in Amarillo, TX. At Prairie Kitchen, I was introduced to these things called \u201cTexas Toothpicks\u201d (which I\u2019ve never heard of personally), which are essentially fried and battered onions and jalape\u00f1os. One word: addictive. I generally don\u2019t eat fried food, but those were tasty! For dinner, Katie found an authentic Mexican restaurant : El Manantial. The word means spring in Spanish\u2026 I looked it up just now. It was once again cheap and very good! No wonder it had good reviews!<\/p>\n

\"Lame<\/a><\/p>\n

I had to take a picture with Oklahoma’s sign, even thought it was lame!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Something that we noticed while driving through Texas was that some roads have the abbreviation F.M. and we were wondering what it meant. According to good ol\u2019 Wikipedia, it means that they are farm-to-market roads. There\u2019s also R.M. roads which means ranch-to-market. These roads are part of the connecting system in Texas, and maintained by the Texas Department of Transportation. This is something I\u2019ve never seen in Florida!<\/p>\n

\"Route<\/a><\/p>\n

Getting our kicks on Route 66!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another fun thing we did today was drive on historic Route 66 (in Oklahoma)! We saw signs for it while driving on I-40 and I googled it and realized we were running parallel to it on the highway.<\/p>\n

\"Route<\/a><\/p>\n

I was super excited to include this on our trip<\/strong><\/p>\n

We got some new license plates today too! (The list is currently in the car, so I\u2019ll have to add it to the next post). But the cool thing we learned about was the Cherokee citizens living in all 77 Oklahoma counties can now buy Cheorkee Nations license plates. We noticed a few while we were playing the 50 States game today and couldn\u2019t recognize the state title so we found out about this little tidbit<\/a>. Here\u2019s the story we read about this new addition in August 2013.<\/p>\n

\"Texas<\/a><\/p>\n

Big Sky Texas Sunset<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our day ended with a beautiful sunset in the huge Texas sky. There was nothing in any direction, except for open road. I\u2019ve never experienced that much barren, flat land before!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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