[Healeys] Route 66

[BJ8 Healeys]

There is a website dedicated to Route 66 that gives a turn-by-turn progress
from the beginning to the end.  I printed off all of these instructions
because doing 66 is on my bucket list for someday, hopefully soon.  There is
a set of maps available as an alternative to printing the instructions.

See http://www.historic66.com

Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC  USA

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From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Awgertoo at aol.com
Sent: Sunday, August 30, 2009 11:38 AM
To: healeys at autox.team.net; ahrdstr at hotmail.com
Subject: [Healeys] Route 66

Carlos--
 
I may have missed your original email and so do not know how  much of 66 
you want to run and from where to where.
 
When I  came back from Conclave 2002 in Tahoe I drove out to  the Coast and 
down to visit my children in LA, then set back east intending  do see a bit 
of 66.  The problem is that there is very little of the old  road left--in 
most cases its alignment has been taken over by interstates (e.g.  across CA

from LA to Barstow to Needles you will be on I-40.)  In a few  places there 
are loops of 66 left, in others 66 is simply a service road through  small 
and medium size towns paralleling the Interstate lined mostly by old  closed

businesses, etc.
Some of it is fun--I actually did stand on the corner in Winslow Arizona  
though now they serve "Seattle's Best" coffee there.  But much  of 66 is a 
memory.
 
There are a gazillion books out there on 66--I also have a great Route 66  
cookbook filled with recipes from places long closed (but the recipes  are 
the epitomy of comfort food!  I would recommend keeping an open  mind and if

you are more interested in doing real two-lane travel than driving  larger 
roads or interstates in order to say that you drove where 66 USED to  be
that 
you should get a copy of Jamie Jensen's Road Trip  America.  It is entirely 
devoted to the two-lane concept an  gives tons of information about a 
number of transcontinental routes  and what you should see.  
 
Many of the original but less famous two-digit roads that still more or  
less track the original alignment exist and go through small towns.  As an  
example when we were travelling west on Route 50 which is often 4-lane
divided 
I  found numerous places where smaller roads (Route 56) provided parallel 
tracks  and much more fun driving.
 
Good luck and keep us posted.
 
Best--Michael Oritt
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