SHAWNEE, OK - - It rained most of the day in our 460 mile interstate run from Santa Rosa, NM to Shawnee. Along the way, as we have for the past three years, we stopped in Adrian, TX. There's not much there except an old grain elevator, an antique store which has great BBQ and was the real reason for our slight detour, and the MidPoint Cafe. Adrian began in 1900 as a spot on the map denoting a survey station. In 1909 there were enough people in the area to name the place Adrian after a local farmer. The 2000 census noted 159 people in Adrian. The population is still about the same, said one of the folks in the MidPoint Cafe, where we ate lunch. "Only most of them are in the cemetery now," he told us. The MidPoint survives as another Rt. 66 icon. The cafe bills itself that way on the menu, with a sign outside, and with an ad in the "Route 66 Pulse" as the halfway point of Rt. 66 between Chicago and Los Angeles. The free publication bills itself as "The heartbeat of America's mother road."
Since the BBQ place was closed we had lunch at the MidPoint
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