Tuesday, July 16, 2024

Starting Mileage: 15298, Distance travelled: 568

After a delicious breakfast at our hotel, including coffee delivered to our room upon awakening, we walked the Grand Promenade behind Bathhouse Row and made our way to the Visitor’s Center to get our passport stamped. Boy were we surprised by what else we found. Not only were there exhibits about the hot springs and the history of the National Park, but the entire bathhouse that housed the Visitor’s Center was a preserved bathhouse, complete with hydrotherapy chambers that look like torture devices, ladies lounges, and a full gymnasium.

We hit the road again for a long day of driving, passing through Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole Nations, Oklahoma City, and finally Amarillo, TX, where we landed at 9pm. We got a quick bite to eat at a Jimmy John’s sandwich shop after being turned away at Red Robin which supposedly closed at 10pm, but sadly, was locked. David thinks we drove 1 million miles but you can see above that it was far less than that. We did, however, make a conscious decision to put lots of road behind us today, so we could spend some time in Albuquerque tomorrow.