Date: June 24, 2025
Location: Nashville Coffees (Nasvhille, TN)
Rating: 👍 (Like)
Today's pick was whatever was the closest coffee shop by the KOA.
I got a Spring Blossom, Mom got an Iced Strawberry Rose, and Dad got the Music City Latte.
Of course, being Nashville, there was various country music photos and objects on the wall.
See full list of Our Koffee Trail stops here and Our Koffee Trail Google Maps list here.
Date: June 23, 2025
Location: Eastside Coffee (Vinita, OK)
Rating: 👍 (Like)
We meant to go through Arkansas from Tulsa to Nashville, but I accidentally selected the avoid flash flood warnings route and we did not notice I had directed us to a coffee shop along a different route that took us through Missouri until it no longer made sense to change which way we went. Thus, we ended up at Eastside Coffee, which is interestingly located inside part of a tire shop.
They had probably fifteen different speciality coffees to choose. I got The Heartland (Bourbon Caramel, Butter Pecan Honey, Caramel). Mom got The Okie (Dark Chocolate, Caramel). Dad got the Spicy Pennington (Dark Chocolate, Vanilla, Cinnamon, Cayenne).
See full list of Our Koffee Trail stops here and Our Koffee Trail Google Maps list here.
Date: June 22, 2025
Location: The Coffee House on Cherry Street (Tulsa, OK)
Rating: ❤️ (Love)
Date of Visit: June 21, 2025
Location: Route 66 Road Fest Mini Golf, Tulsa, OK
We partly visited the Route 66 Road Fest to help get ready for planning to do Route 66 next year, but biggest reason I wanted to go to the Route 66 Road Fest was that I noticed it had mini golf. It was very much worth it even just for the mini golf as even though it is short holes, it has a good variety of obstacles and fun Route 66 themes. It is also the cheapest paid mini golf we've ever played at $2 a person (even if you include the $7 military price of our admission to the Route 66 Road Fest, $9 is among the cheapest cost for a round of mini golf).
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Date: June 21, 2025
Location: She Brews Coffee (Tulsa, OK)
Rating: ❤️ (Love)
As we are in Tulsa for the Route 66 Road Fest, it seemed appropriate to go to a coffee shop on Route 66 in Tulsa. We also ended up happening upon the farmer's market that blocks off the street by She Brews on Saturday.
Dad got the Dirty Elf Latte (chai) and I got the Love in a Cup Latte (white chocolate raspberry). We also got a bag of decaf coffee beans for home.
See full list of Our Koffee Trail stops here and Our Koffee Trail Google Maps list here.
Date of Visit: June 20, 2025
Yesterday when we realized we would get to Tupelo around 3:30pm, I considered going further than planned and skipping Tupelo to have a shorter drive to Tulsa today. I'm glad I didn't, though, as we had a fun morning doing some things in Tupelo (and got a swim in last night at the hotel). I just wish we had realized there was the Elvis Guitar Trail yesterday because the weather was nice yesterday evening that we could have enjoyed actually walking and seeing more of the guitars.
As the grounds of the Elvis Presley Birthplace are alway open, we decided to go explore the outdoors part of the site before it opened at 9am. After getting coffee at Strange Brew Coffee, we headed over and spent about an hour doing the walking trail.
Around the house he was born in is a concrete circle with a section for each year of his life. The first 13 representing the years he lived in Tupelo have markers with a fact about Elvis or his family for that year.
From the marker for his 13th year (1948), there is a path that leads to the Elvis at 13 statue.
Next was the Assembly of God church that was Elvis' childhood church, which was not originally this close to his house, but was moved and was a residence when the church got a bigger church and later moved to this site and restored as a church.
This 1939 Plymouth is a replica of the one the Presley family used when they left Tupelo for Memphis.
The Reflections area has a pond with a "Bridge Over Troubled Waters."
The tour ends with the overlook, which has the statues of Elvis as a boy and Elvis as an entertainer, which is known as "Becoming."
When we completed the grounds part of the tour, we still had about 30 minutes until the museum opened. We headed back to Strange Brew Coffee, so I could get the Elvis Presley. Along the way we stopped at one of the Elvis Guitar Trail guitars.
On our way back to the Elvis Presley Birthplace, we stopped at the Tupelo Fairpark, which was once the fairgrounds where he perfomed in 1956 and the iconic photo that this statue replicates was taken.
Back at the Elvis Birthplace, we visited the museum and did the quick tour of the two room house.
Date: June 21, 2025
Location: Strange Brew Coffee (Tupelo, MS)
Rating: ❤️ (Love)
We were going to go to a coffeeshop across the street from where we stayed last night, but it didn't open until 7am and we managed to be ready to leave around 6:40am. Instead we ended up going to Strange Brew Coffee because it opens at 6am. I think we ended up at the more interesting place in the end, though.
They had an overwhelming regular menu of speciality drinks that I sadly did not even notice the special of the week - the Elvis Presley (chocolate, peanut butter, banana) - until after we ordered. (Update: We went back later and got it as we still had some time to kill before the Elvis Presley Birthplace opened)
Mom got the Iced Tipsy Blondie. Dad got a Mudslide and also a regular cup of coffee. I got a S'more's Latte.
On the hot drinks, they include a chocolate covered coffee bean.
See full list of Our Koffee Trail stops here and Our Koffee Trail Google Maps list here.
