Route 66 - 1999


Everything from Big City life to the desert...Route 66 was an incredible journey!
The 1st "real" road connecting the East to the West, 1000's traveled on the
Mother Road to make their fortune in California.  Many made it, many didn't.  ('course,
this could have something to do with the mountains..."umm, Bertha, this here spot
looks real good!"  Certainly explains Needles, for instance).
Route 66 was a victim of the Interstate Act in the '50's, but much of it remains today.
Bill and Carrie took this adventure based on a philosphy for living:
Never take a freeway when you can take a highway.
Never take a highway when you can take a state road.
It's not the destination...it's the journey.
The two took advantage of the Mother Road Rally to travel
Route 66 - here's some of their favorite memories....
(Scroll down)

 
Route 66 Scenes
 
The steed - 5am, getting ready to start an  ironbutt to the starting point...

  

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The El Rancho - Gallup, NM (notice the cool bike out front!)

Cool piece of wood...er...rock...er...oh, nevermind.

The Meteor Crater (Meteor City, AZ)

The El Rancho, in Gallup, NM  (claim to fame... "movie stars have slept here...really!")

A log from the Petrified Forest, outside Holbrook, AZ (where the rest of the forest is...for sale)

Meteor Crater, AZ...almost a mile wide, 1/2 mile deep!

Cool sunglasses, huh....NOT.

The Endless Road

The Arizona Ritz

The Grand Canyon, AZ
(not NM - contrary to the USPS  and their stamps)

Do you ever feel you're just NEVER going to get there?                   

The KingMan, AZ Ritz Carlton.             

Home of Angel's barber shop

Ft Courage - F-Troop!

Hackberry General Store

Parked in front of Delgadillo's - home of Angel and his barbershop.  Seligman, AZ.

Ft. Courage (we didn't see Agarn, O'Rourke, Parmenter, Wrangler Jane , or even the Hekawis' Wild Eagle or Roaring Chicken ...go figure.
Click here or  here to learn more about F-Troop!

Hackberry General Store.
ex-home of Bob Waldmire, map artist and Rt 66 expert.

Holbrook cowboy

What is wrong with this wall?

With gravest apologies to the Eagles

Holbrook AZ.  This is all carved from petrified wood.  I think the Indian is looking up, thinking...
"crazy white man".

Can you figure out what's up with this picture?  E-mail Bill if you can't figure it out.

"Standing on a corner, in Winslow, AZ such a fine site to see" yadayadayada.

The Wigwam Motel - Holbrook, AZ

Bagdad Cafe

The death of 66

Wigwam Motel,
Holbrook, AZ
Yes, this really is a motel room.  :-)

Bagdad Cafe - located down the road from Bagdad, CA in Newberry Springs, CA (got me..I just take the pics).

When Interstate 40 opened up just a few hundred feet away...with no exits to what used to be well traveled sections of the old road, businesses died a painful death.

MacDonald's #8

A true Hollywood ending

The REAL end of the Mother Road.

MacDonald's #8 - what some might call the most important historical piece on Route 66 (ugh).

The "official" end of the Mother Road.

The <real> end of the Mother Road.  Quite the sight, huh.    (sigh)

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