Now on a westerly heading...

Since leaving Fort Worth, Texas on October 21 we've been on a westerly heading toward California. Haven't gotten very far as we interrupted our travels to take in the Texas Good Sam Samboree in Abilene. What follows is some of the stuff we have encountered in the last week or two on the road.

In the small town of Gene Autry, Oklahoma is the Gene Autry Oklahoma Museum. It's really small-town and rural, and is the only tourist attraction in the area. But it is interesting, and well done.

The day of our visit we found a guest celebrity on hand. The gentleman in the white hat is Don Reynolds, now living in Texas, who played the part of Little Beaver in the last four episodes of the Red Ryder movies filmed in 1949-1952.

Here Don Reynolds is showing Pat some of the actors he worked with while filming the Red Ryder movies.

Did I mention that Gene Autry, Oklahoma is rather rural? This is the crossroads leading to the museum.

Today, October 23, finds us still in Abilene. The Samboree winds up this evening, and since it is raining (and flooding) in the area we are having kind of a down day. Tomorrow we continue westward past Midland/Odessa and on into Winkler County where we will visit the towns of Kermit and Wink as a side trip. It just doesn't get more exciting. Next entry will catch up on Fort Worth to Abilene and the Samboree.