I would have posted this earlier, except I had to verify a few things about it. Here's the skinny: The Tulsa City Council last week passed two third-penny sales-tax-extension questions for a May 9 election. One is for $459 million in capital improvements; the other is $4.3 million for improvements toTulsa International Airport. The news … Continue reading Third-penny tax includes funds to Route 66 museum
Day: March 13, 2006
Central Avenue chowdown
Eckleburg & Grumblecake have updated their I8Route66 Web site with three reviews of restaurants along Albuquerque's Central Avenue, aka Route 66. Their goal is to review every Central Avenue eatery in 2006. The new reviews are the 66 Diner (8.0 rating out of 10), Loyola's (6.5 rating) and Bob's Fish & Chips (4.5 rating).
Massive wildfires burn Texas Panhandle
This is really bad. Huge wildfires fanned by a lengthy drought and high winds have killed at least six people, closed long stretches of Interstate 40, burned homes and forced the mandatory evacuation of the Route 66 town of McLean. One of the big wildfires started near the Route 66 town of Groom. The fires … Continue reading Massive wildfires burn Texas Panhandle
Fat Man returns to the road
Steve Vaught of thefatmanwalking.com has returned to his cross-country trek, according to his journal (scroll down to the March 11 entry). He's having some problems with one of his feet and finding proper foods for his eating regimen. But, as usual, he'll probably cope.