Day Nine. It’s a Friday; but, I’m starting to lose track of that on the road. No commute. No real traffic. We are heading out of Needles on our way to San Bernardino. 245 miles. A rather light day of miles again. It can be officially classified as one of the best days on the…
While it was nice to look at, day eight is still a driving day. 259 miles from the Grand Canyon to Needles, CA with a stark contrast in landscape from cool pine forest and rock to hot desert sand and sage. A Slow Descent It’s very difficult to leave the Grand Canyon. Everyone wants to…
Day Seven is the shortest journey of the trip in miles. We headed off the Route 66 trail again for a diversion to the Grand Canyon. It’s also here that our travel party has doubled in size. A Morning of Leisure We originally planned to be up and out by 9AM to backtrack a bit…
Tuesday found us leaving Albuquerque, NM, for Flafstaff, AZ. Another tough day of 370 miles with many planned stops. An aggressive plan that ultimately gave way to a little spontaneity and change. And somewhere along the way we crossed the Continental Divide. Ice Cave And Bandera Volcano The first stop of the day was a…
Headed to Albuquerque from Amarillo for our day five travels. Only 278 miles planned. What a break! And it includes a visit with Tom’s sister Meg, her husband Stu and daughter Stephanie. Cadillac Ranch You really can’t stopover in Amarillo, TX and then leave without seeing the Cadillac Ranch. An ever-changing art display of Cadillacs…
Here we are talking about Sunday. Hard to believe we’ve been on the road for four and a half days already. Time always passes too fast when you least expect it. The Sunday itinerary was another tough mileage day for the books. 386 miles from Tulsa, OK to Amarillo, TX. Of course the day started…
Day Two was planned as a rather tough day on Route 66. 486 miles from St. Louis, Missouri to Tulsa, Oklahoma. It’s not recommended nor is it easy; but, we have a finite amount of vacation days with which to work and so we must do what we have to do. I must admit we…
The official first day is in the books and it was a great day. As far as mileage goes it was one of our shorter days. So it started like most of our trips — an hour later start than planned on the itinerary. At first I was hopeful we could make up the time;…
Travelers! Start your engines! The dust is already settling behind us and the house disappeared from the rear view mirror several hundred miles ago. We have reached our starting point for the Route 66 journey – Joliet, Illinois. We have already begun to uncover the things we forgot to pack but are also finding that…
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work.” Those who study architecture or hail from Chicago will recognize this as a quote from Daniel Burnham, the famed architect of the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition…
Carving Routes 