DAY THREE (10/7/15)

Amazing. Today (friday) i have all but 3 or 4 people's steps accounted for monday and tuesday, and EACH DAY was over HALF A MILLION steps.
Let that sink in for a moment....
The total for those two days was 1,109,951 steps. FANTASTIC!!!

Miles traveled for the first three days is around 680. This places us roughly here:

Big Cabin, OK

To get here, though, we had to travel through a very small section of Kansas.Kansas is the only state along Route 66 that is NOT mentioned in the song. There are only 13.2 miles of Rte 66 in Kansas, which just begs for a half marathon. Am I right?
Today we are going to stop for the night in Big Cabin, OK. One might think that the name implies we'll find something like the World's Largest Cabin here but that's not the case. The town got its name from a local landmark that existed near the place where the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railway built a switch in 1871-1872 (source). So we don't get to see an actual big cabin, but one of the truck stops does have this to offer:

Another notable fact for Big Cabin OK:
In 2004 Big Cabin raised nearly three-fourths of its revenue from traffic citations for speeding. The state of Oklahoma enacted a law in 2004 that penalizes towns where the citation revenue exceeds 50% of the annual budget. As a result of a complaint filed by a local business, Oklahoma's Department of Public Safety designated the town a speed trap, and prohibited the town's officers from writing traffic tickets for six months. The police department maintained that enforcement lowered the annual rate of traffic deaths. Rather than speed along, let's stop here. I have to admit, though, roads like this just beg for speed...

Get some sleep, remember to hydrate!