Marta of Portugal is a self-described “postcard fanatic.” If she gets a postcard in the mail, she’ll post it on her Postcards of the World blog.

Her Thursday post shows a postcard of the Blue Whale, off Route 66 in Catoosa, Okla.

If you mail her a postcard, she’ll mail you one if you leave your address. Looking through her archives, I see the Blue Whale is the only Route 66 postcard she has. So if you have a really cool one, send it her way, won’t you? Her mailing address is listed on the blog.

Harold Smith of the Mountain View Telegraph appears to have found an old favorite that was believed to have been defunct along Route 66 in Moriarty, N.M., which is east of Albuquerque.

It’s Aunt YeYa’s Food, in the Moriarty Flea Market on Route 66 on the east end of town.
There was another Aunt YeYa’s restaurant in Moriarty, but it closed about 15 months ago. Aunt YeYa, who is actually Henrietta Romero, took a job last year as an administrative assistant for the high school’s athletic director. But she left because she didn’t like the night hours. So she went back into the restaurant business.

The restaurant serves enchiladas, green-chile cheeseburgers and other old Aunt YeYa favorites.

Romero said she and Joe Garcia had planned on operating her new endeavor just on weekends.

But she said many of her former customers dropped by this past weekend and asked her what they were to do the other five days now that she’s back to her calling.

As a result, Romero said Aunt YeYa’s will be open on a trial basis on weekdays this week beginning at 7 a.m. each day to serve the breakfast-burrito crowd and will probably remain open through lunch.

She emphasized that the outdoor-service-only joint, situated behind the flea market building, will vary its hours from whenever she feels like opening to whenever she wants to close.

Aunt YeYa’s will also take phone orders. Call 610-6833.

So if you’re cruising through Moriarty in the morning, you’d best look her up.

The New York Times travel section has an excellent article about tourism opportunities in Springfield, Ill., including the many Abraham Lincoln sites and places to get your kicks on ol’ 66.

I lived near Springfield for much of my life, and Times writer Ann N. Morrison found places that were so obscure that even I didn’t know about them, including a Quonset-hut diner called Charlie Parker’s that serves a Giant Pancake that’s 16 inches across.

UPDATE: The Springfield Journal-Register reports at least one of the restaurants getting a boost from the Times article.

The Tuttle (Okla.) Times has an article about aviation museums that are on or near Route 66 in OKlahoma.

There are probably more than you think. It includes Thomas P. Stafford Air & Space Museum in Weatherford, the Ninety-Nines Museum of Women Pilots in Oklahoma City, the Omniplex (which is building a manned space flight gallery) in OKC, and the Tulsa Air and Space Museum.