Amazing Small Towns

After Groom we continued east and drove as much as we could on Old Route 66.  Some of the road was hard to find but we kept searching until we did.  One section, know as the Jericho Gap was never paved and is still a dirt road.  We drove a few miles on it and can't believe what it would have been like to travel across country on a dirt road with no air conditioning. But thousands of people did looking for a better life. We traveled through many amazing small towns, like Jericho, McLean, Shamrock, Elk City and Clinton. A few of these and other towns are fine.  But so many towns are barely surviving since they were bypassed by the Interstate.  I am no one to point a finger of blame.  I too get caught up in the busyness of life and don't often slow down to enjoy the simple pleasures of life. Maybe I am relearning that important lesson.  If so then this trip has already been worth it.