The Pontiac Daily Leader published a story Friday about the Illinois Route 66 Red Carpet Corridor Festival this weekend. The festival is on Sunday, too. So if you're in the area, you still have time to check it out. In fact, the weather looks superb for that day. UPDATE 5/14/08: Here's a story filed from … Continue reading Red Carpet preview
Category: Road trips
Fun Run coverage
The Kingman Daily Miner is going all-out on its coverage of the annual Fun Run put on by the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona, which started Friday. Here's a story about the participants who come back to the cruise year after year. Here's a story about the Show and Shine portion of the event. … Continue reading Fun Run coverage
Rolling out the red carpet
Tomorrow and Sunday is the Illinois Route 66 Red Carpet Corridor Festival, which is a 90-mile-long celebration hosted by a dozen or so small towns along the Mother Road. Here is a preview by the Morris (Ill.) Daily Herald. It's a fairly lengthy story, but it has to be because there's so much going on.
Fun Run preview
This coming weekend's Fun Run, directed by the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona, is the subject of a preview in the Kingman Daily Miner, including an extensive schedule for the event. The Fun Run, which anticipates more than 800 entrants, is a car/motorcycle cruise that winds on Route 66 from Seligman to the Topock/Golden … Continue reading Fun Run preview
State of the road in Illinois
Using the upcoming Illinois Route 66 Red Carpet Weekend as a jumping-off point, the Bloomington Pantagraph takes a look at the current state of the Mother Road in the Land of Lincoln. And despite current problems like a faltering economy and high fuel prices, the future of Route 66 looks bright. "International travelers come from … Continue reading State of the road in Illinois
Lake Overholser Bridge
I can't tell whether this video is from someone hanging a camera out the car window or attaching it to a bicycle. But this is footage of someone crossing the Lake Overholser Bridge. It was built west of Oklahoma City in 1924, predating Route 66. But it became a prominent alignment of the Mother Road. … Continue reading Lake Overholser Bridge
The end of the road
If you go from east to west on Route 66, you will reach the symbolic end of the Mother Road in Santa Monica, Calif. If you plan to stay there a few days after your journey, here's a good visitor's guide to the city by the Inland Press-Enterprise.
Nice way to spend a summer
A schoolteacher in Indiana is spending this summer traveling on Route 66, taking art classes and following her muse, thanks to a grant, reports the The Post & Mail in Colombia City, Ind. Sarah Corey, who teaches at Indian Springs Middle School, received $8,000 from the Lilly Endowment Teacher Creativity Fellowship. Throughout the trip she’ll … Continue reading Nice way to spend a summer
Highway of Broken Dreams — past tense
It was depressing to read Peter Kenter's story, "Highway of Broken Dreams," in the National Post of Canada about a trip he took on Route 66. He tells about how "hope gave way to despair." Finally ... ... Flagstaff, Arizona ... ... Don't forget Winona... As a matter of fact, we did forget Winona. And … Continue reading Highway of Broken Dreams — past tense
Virtual road trip
Andrew Wood completed a full-length trip of Route 66 a few weeks ago, and he's put his musings and adventures on a Web site here. It's chock-full of good writing and a ton of hyperlinked photos. Be prepared to spend a couple of fun hours on it. Wood, by the way, is the author of … Continue reading Virtual road trip