If you ever plan to motor west...

[ceebeegee]

I saw a neat little blurb about in the Metro handout today about traveling Route 66 as a vacation, calling it "America's most romanticized, classic road."  I've had a fascination with the Mother Road ever since they decommissioned it back in the '80s and I read about it in People magazine--accompanying were these haunting pictures of old roadstretch, worn down by how many tires, carrying people on their way West.  So evocative, so uniquely American--there's a better life that way.  Go toward the sun, chase the sun--go west, west.  Leave the prairies behind, skiff the deserts like a skipping stone, see the mountains in the horizon beckoning to you, calling you. 

You'll seeeee Amarillo
Gallup, New Mexico!
Flagstaff, Arizona
(Don't forget Winona!)
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino...


I took these pictures, as well as the one from my icon, when I was at my dad's in Arizona and we went to Flagstaff together to see the Mother Road herself.A dream come true. What wouldn't I give to be able to take a motorcycle trip down that road, just like my dad, heading down the highway, looking for adventure?

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News for under the rock...

[neoscribe.livejournal.com]

I had no idea Route 66 no longer existed. Wowza. No wonder they stopped playing the show on Nick at Night. There's 2 generations gone now that would have no idea what it was. :-/

Re: News for under the rock...

[ceebeegee.livejournal.com]

Well, parts of the road are still there--I'm standing on one section in the picture--it's just not a part of the US highway system officially, so whatever upkeep is done by local bodies. If you can make the trip, it is well worth it--a lot of the old motels and restaurants still line the route, it's like a trip back in time. I'm dying to see some of the other cities...Joplin, Missouri, and Oklahoma City is miiighty pretty...

Re: News for under the rock...

[neoscribe.livejournal.com]

That is you standing in the road? Wow. What a small road! Considering how big they used to make cars, and all.