If you ever plan to motor west
Travel my way, the highway that's the best.
Get your kicks on Route 66!
Alas, the famous, iconic Route 66 is no more - bypassed by the Interstates. We stayed at Williams, AZ, proud to be the last town to have its section of Route 66 bypassed (I think it was 1984) and they claim this 'the best-preserved stretch of Route 66'.
With the Route 66 come all sorts of kitschy memorabilia, Western hotels, saloons, jails and general stores, all chock-a-block full of Route 66 souvenirs.
We were strongly advised to travel the Route between Seligman and Kingman, that being a stretch that had kept the old Route 66 feeling still alive.
Well.
Maybe.
I can't compare since I've never travelled the real Route, but this was more like a open air museum cum hippy / Harley Davidson riders hangout.
And yet I can imagine people hankering for the Old Route.
Let's never forget it was the age of the car, the age in which everything became better, faster, more modern. No one had yet heard of CO2 footprints - you wanted to escape the dustbowl, you headed west. You wanted to travel from one end of this vast country to another, you headed west.
Nowadays people want to travel this Route again.
Some of the stretches are still there.
On them it's, erm, let's say, obvious you're on Route 66!
Travel my way, the highway that's the best.
Get your kicks on Route 66!
Alas, the famous, iconic Route 66 is no more - bypassed by the Interstates. We stayed at Williams, AZ, proud to be the last town to have its section of Route 66 bypassed (I think it was 1984) and they claim this 'the best-preserved stretch of Route 66'.
With the Route 66 come all sorts of kitschy memorabilia, Western hotels, saloons, jails and general stores, all chock-a-block full of Route 66 souvenirs.
We were strongly advised to travel the Route between Seligman and Kingman, that being a stretch that had kept the old Route 66 feeling still alive.
Well.
Maybe.
I can't compare since I've never travelled the real Route, but this was more like a open air museum cum hippy / Harley Davidson riders hangout.
And yet I can imagine people hankering for the Old Route.
Let's never forget it was the age of the car, the age in which everything became better, faster, more modern. No one had yet heard of CO2 footprints - you wanted to escape the dustbowl, you headed west. You wanted to travel from one end of this vast country to another, you headed west.
Nowadays people want to travel this Route again.
Some of the stretches are still there.
On them it's, erm, let's say, obvious you're on Route 66!
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