The New York Times reports on a new travel-industry twist -- photography safaris. Combining guided tours to exotic locales with hands-on instruction, photo safaris seek to turn the everyday Ofoto user into a budding Ansel Adams. “They are a huge and growing market,” said Reid Callanan, the director of Sante Fe Workshops (www.santafeworkshops.com), a photography … Continue reading Photo hunting on Route 66
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Norwegian motorcycle tour highlights
Trond Moberg regularly guides motorcycle tours down Route 66 for his fellow Norwegians. Here is a 29-minute video of highlights of his 2003 tour.
Driving Route 66 in a moped
Roland Gueffroy currently is driving Route 66 in an unorthodox way -- in a refurbished Swiss postal moped. According to his Web site: Why take a original Swiss postal moped on Route 66? I have been asked this question, albeit in various forms, many times. It’s to be expected that this kind of tour is … Continue reading Driving Route 66 in a moped
A hog-riding great-grandma
From the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser is the story of Diana Dixon, who plans to drive her Harley-Davidson three-wheel motorcycle all the way to Fairbanks, Alaska, by her 64th birthday on June 18. Of course, there will be side trips on the way: She's mapped out her itinerary and plans to touch as many states as … Continue reading A hog-riding great-grandma
Virtual cruising
I'm not sure who's doing this, but it's pretty cool. Someone has mounted a dashboard video camera and cruised Route 66 from its eastern starting point in Chicago. Some stoplight stops are edited, but it's mostly real-time footage of driving west on the Mother Road. It's darned near like being there. Both videos are about … Continue reading Virtual cruising
A photo journey down Route 66
This is a compilation of images from Tokyo photographer Hiroshi Hanamura.
Reuters correspondents finish Route 66 trip
Reuters correspondents James Kelleher and Nick Carey on Friday ended their Route 66 Revisited journey at Lou Mitchell's restaurant in Chicago, near the eastern terminus of the Mother Road. Kelleher wrote: We expected to see and experience many things and to meet some interesting people, as there is a lot of America in between the … Continue reading Reuters correspondents finish Route 66 trip
Route 66 Festival notes
The National Route 66 Festival is coming up in a few weeks in Clinton, Okla., on June 21-24, and here are a few items related to that event: -- The Oklahoma Route 66 Association is sponsoring a hands-on historic preservation project at the former Ray's Motel at 720 S. Eighth St. in Clinton from 11 … Continue reading Route 66 Festival notes
Riding for charity
Mark Schultz is a platinum-selling and Dove Award-winning Christian musician. Right now, he is undertaking a bicycle tour across America -- part of it on Route 66 -- to raise money for the James Fund to help orphans and widows. The Gallup (N.M.) Independent caught up with him over the weekend. Apparently the bicycle trip … Continue reading Riding for charity
Red Carpet treatment
Matt A. drove down Route 66 in Illinois during the Illinois Route 66 Red Carpet Corridor weekend. Here's his blog about it, with plenty of photos.