After an uneventful evening in a Springfield (MO) motel, we leave for Oklahoma city. The landscapes are changing, more hills, definitely more cattle and stockyards. We are driving parallel to the Mother Road, Route 66 - originally built in the 1920's - to link Chicago to Los Angeles. The road was 9 feet wide! Some stretches are still showing the "original" pavement...There is almost a cult of Road 66, with a museum, pamphlets on how to drive the original road and its sights (giant cement Bluewhale, old gaz stations, etc...).

We arrive in Oklahoma city around 16h00, and shortly after having booked the room at the Super 8, we jump in a city bus and think that we will get to the well-known stockyards and its restaurant. But the bus brings us downtown instead...another empty and desolated affair. We use the tourist trolley to "discover" the area but we see nothing except the lower part of the high rises. We do the rest on foot...including Bricktown. This area  has a similar style to the Toronto distillery area but is absolutely empty. No offer of happy hour drinks can entice us to go in those empty restaurants and bars...After a picture taking session, we jump back in the bus and head home (!) to the Super 8. We walk to the next Sports Bar and are happy to find a 10 persons crowd in the establishment: sounds fine for supper!