Some stray news items ... The Tulsa World has a recent update on Emory Duick, the senior citizen who is traveling Route 66 by foot. He's already worn out two sneakers, and he still has 1,400 miles to go. The New Mexico firefighters who were traveling Route 66 by motorcycle to raise funds for families … Continue reading Notes from the road
Category: Attractions
Family road trip
Author Malena Lott took another friend and their children on Route 66 from Edmond to Claremore in Oklahoma. Here's a video about where they stopped: And here's Lott's blog post about her adventures on the Mother Road.
Kingman logos expand Route 66 role
Deep into this Kingman (Ariz.) Daily Miner about the City Council is this item: Elsewhere on the agenda, councilmembers will review a series of logos designed by Joshua Noble of the Kingman Area Chamber of Commerce to be used in future tourism and economic development efforts. Chamber president Beverly Liles will present the four recently-redesigned … Continue reading Kingman logos expand Route 66 role
How about a lift?
For the second straight year, the Lift to the Rocker event at the Fanning 66 Outpost on Route 66 near Cuba, Mo., raised funds for the Cuba Volunteer Fire Department. For $5, participants could get the rare opportunity to be lifted by a fire department bucket truck to the seat of the store's 42-foot-tall World's … Continue reading How about a lift?
More of a drizzle than a storm
Kim Schneider, a travel writer for Michigan Live, poses this question about NBC-TV's dud of a reality series on Route 66, "The Great American Road Trip": Has the show done more to keep people off the road than on it? Short answer from me: I doubt it. First off, ratings for "Road Trip" have been … Continue reading More of a drizzle than a storm
Au natural
Urban Tulsa posted a fascinating article about Oaklake Trails Naturist Park near Depew, Okla., off Route 66. Simply put, it is a 400-acre resort for nudists. At Oaklake, everyone is nude or nearly nude. Women and men wearing nothing but hats and sunglasses splash in the pool. A young woman sits outside her cabin in … Continue reading Au natural
Break-ins migrate across Old Chain of Rocks Bridge
Car burglaries at the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge in north St. Louis got so numerous that Trailnet closed the parking lot on the bridge's west side. KTVI-TV in St. Louis now reports that car burglaries at the bridge that once carried Route 66 now have migrated to the parking lot on the east side, … Continue reading Break-ins migrate across Old Chain of Rocks Bridge
Money needed, stat
The Southwest Tulsa Chamber of Commerce needs $26,000 by mid-August to pay for a 154-foot-tall oil derrick replica at a Route 66 Station park under construction on Southwest Boulevard, reports the Tulsa World. The newspaper reported that some pledged donations for the project have been pulled back because of the weak economy, hence the hastily … Continue reading Money needed, stat
Cadillac Ranch takes on unintended meaning
Mitch Potter of the Toronto Star talks to Stanley Marsh 3, the Amarillo tycoon who created the art landmark that is Cadillac Ranch just off Route 66 on the west side of town. But in the summer of 2009, this iconic row of classic Cadillacs jutting skyward from a farm field in the Texas Panhandle … Continue reading Cadillac Ranch takes on unintended meaning
Notes from the road
A few things to move off my plate: --- One of the beneficiaries of federal stimulus package passed earlier this year is a Route 66 bicycle trail in Illinois. According to an Associated Press report, $25,000 in such funds will be used to build a four-way stop signal at an intersection for the Route 66 … Continue reading Notes from the road