Summary of places visited on the way and way back from GA in San Jose

Presented here is a bullet list of specific places I visited on my 8,540 mile road trip around America, going to and from the 218th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, San Jose, California from June 4, starting in Clinton, TN to July to July 30, arriving in Indianapolis for the Brickyard 400 NASCAR weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway; and then heading back to TN.

Stories of my trip on my blog: http://judytoga.blogspot.com/
Pictures on Picasa Web Album: http://picasaweb.google.com/indyfanjudy.album
the specific trip album link is:
https://picasaweb.google.com/101909739033407700500/JudySJournalToGAAndBack#

June 5
Jackson, Mississippi capitol and downtown (visit with Kay and Dr. Mounger)
June 6
Vicksburg, MS and Mississippi River bridges
June 7
Texas Motor Speedway for Indy Car race
June 9
Albany Texas and wind turbines in fields of West Texas
June 10
Buffalo Gap, Texas
June 10
Abilene Christian University, Abilene Texas
June 10
Grace Hotel, now Grace Museum, Abilene Texas
June 11
Visit to Abilene Christian University library
June 11
San Angelo, Texas (visit with Rosemary Sluder)
June 13
Route 66; Four Corners monument of New Mexico, AZ, Utah, and Colorado; end of U.S. 64
June 13
The Unser (Auto Racing) Family Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico and Route 66
June 14
Route 66 and Petrified Forest
June 15
Holbrook, AZ Wigwams, Winslow, Meteor Crater
June 15
Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff Arizona
June 16
Route 66 and Grand Canyon
June 17
Kingman, Arizona, Oatman, Arizona with Oatman burros to Needles California
June 18
Ludlow, California to Amboy, California and Roy’s Café (icon on Route 66)
June 19
Crystal Palace, (Buck Owens’ Theatre and Museum) Bakersfield, CA
June 20
Gonzales, CA church; Pinnacles National Monument, CA
June 20-28
San Jose, CA and the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
June 28
The Tech Museum, San Jose, CA
June 29
Church of the Roses, Santa Rosa, CA (Presbyterian Church U.S.A.)
June 29
Charles Schultz’s Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
July 1
Bridgeport, CA covered bridge
July 2
Elko, Nevada Star Motel
July 3
Bonnieville Salt Flats International Speedway on the way to Salt Lake
July 3 pm
Temple Square and Mormon Tabernacle Choir rehearsal
July 4
Temple Square in a.m., Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah
July 6
Farmer Memorial Church, Rawlins, Wyoming and Devils Gate on the Mormon Trail
July 8
Pompey’s Pillar, on the Lewis and Clark Trail, near Billings Montana
July 9
Theodore Roosevelt National Park and prairie dogs, North Dakota
July 10
Portal, North Dakota and the U.S./Canadian boarder—the beginning of U.S. 52
July 11
Rugby, North Dakota—the geographical center of the United States
July 12
Terrific little towns on what was U.S. 52 before the Interstate
July 13
First Presby in Osakis, MN and Saux Centre, Minnesota—hometown of Sinclair Lewis
July 13
Terrific small towns and fabulous stained glass windows in Catholic churches
July 14
First Presby Church and Public Library, Minneapolis, MN
July 15
SPAM Museum at the Hormel Company in Austin, MN
July 16
Little Brown Church in the Vale church near Nashua, Iowa
July 16
Mason City, Iowa—home of Meredith Willson, “the Music Man”
July 17
Burr Oak, Iowa—Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum
July 17
Bily Clocks Museum, Spillville, Iowa; and Froelich Covered Bridge, Iowa
July 18
Prairie De Chen, Wisconsin and Dubuque, Iowa—Effigy Mounds
July 19
Mines of Spain—Julien Dubuque burial monument, Bellevue, Iowa Mississippi River Locks and Dam; Dixon, Illinois—a boyhood home of Ronald Reagan
July 20
First Presby Church, Mendota, Ill and 2 covered bridges in Princeton, Illinois; Carnegie Library in Mendota; Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet
July 21
“Back Home Again in Indiana” when I reached Kentland Indiana with its different style Carnegie Library building
July 22
Earl Park Park, Fowler, Oxford, and Otterbein libraries
July 23
Lafayette and West Lafayette, Indiana libraries and end of my U.S. 52 trip on Lafayette Road, Indianapolis
July 24-29
In Indianapolis for the NASCAR Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
July 29 and July 30
Leaving Indianapolis, traveling U.S. 52 to Cincinnati, then I-75 to make it to Clinton, TN in time for the First Presbyterian Church Session meeting at 7 PM that night !!