One of our favorite Internet road-trip sites, The Lope, has to a new URL that uses a Blogspot template but no longer is publishing to Blogspot. The Lope writes: I did place posts at the old blogspot URL to redirect people to the individual new URLs, so any URLs you posted for the specific posts … Continue reading The Lope makes a move
Category: Photographs
Photo exhibit features Route 66
Fordham University in New York is hosting a two-person photography exhibition, "In the City and the Mother Road: Route 66," by Doug Muir and Michael Putnam through Feb. 10. The exhibit juxtaposes urban settings with rural scenes from middle America. The Route 66 photography is by Putnam. According to a news release by the university: … Continue reading Photo exhibit features Route 66
Snow of the century
Albuquerque and much of the northern half of New Mexico experienced record snowfall with the latest winter storm. The National Weather Service in Albuquerque reported that 11.3 inches of snow fell in one day Friday, breaking the old one-day record of 9.3 inches, set in 1958, according to the Albuquerque Journal. According to latest data … Continue reading Snow of the century
Route 66 blog roundup for Dec. 20
The Land of Enchantment envisions a future Albuquerque that's more walkable. Not that it's bad in that regard; it considers Downtown, Nob Hill and Old Town the most walkable areas in the Duke City. I concur. Artist David Wilder displays his "High Desert Texaco" watercolor painting, which he says was inspired by many trips on … Continue reading Route 66 blog roundup for Dec. 20
Raising the Pops bottle
Jim Ross sent us some photos he shot Monday of the raising of the 66-foot-tall giant pop bottle and drinking straw that will stand near the Pops convenience store and diner along Route 66 in Arcadia, Okla. Pops is the brainchild of Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon. Ross wrote: Here are some shots of the … Continue reading Raising the Pops bottle
Christmas season on 66
"Christmas in the Park," Ackley Park on Route 66, Elk City, Okla. (Photo courtesy of Kevin Latham.)
Route 66 blog roundup
Alina Chau of Ice Cream Monster Toon Cafe is an animator. She recently took a train trip and posted sketches from the Route 66 towns of Williams, Ariz., and Los Angeles. It's worth surfing the rest of her site for her sketches, too. Kipling West of The Seven Deadly Sinners lives in Canada, but sometimes … Continue reading Route 66 blog roundup
Christmas season on 66
Old Route 66, heading west from Carthage, Mo., to Carterville, Mo., on Dec. 1. (Photo courtesy of Route 66 TV Online.)
Music break
The good folks at the Annees Vinyl site have posted two interesting musical slide shows on YouTube. One is of the Rolling Stones performing "Route 66" on what sounds like a mid-1960s British radio show. Accompanying the music are photos of sights along the road. The other Route 66 slideshow has Nat King Cole, also … Continue reading Music break
Christmas season on 66
Looking west on Missouri Highway 100, aka Route 66, in Manchester, Mo., on Dec. 3. (Photo courtesy of Ron Sanderson.)