Day 2: Chicago, a first taste…
Not sure when we officially crossed into the “mid west,” but it was flat land and big sky, with easy open roads. We had exchanged woodland scenery for farms, and with the speed limit at 70mph, we made it to the outskirts of Chicago in good time.
Approaching the city, the cluster of buildings that [...]
Ready, Set, Go!
A few days before departure I finally started to get a bit “excited” about the trip. I know that sounds strange, as we had been planning for months! But maybe because we HAD been planning for months, “working on the trip plans” became almost “routine,” and I didn’t allow myself the luxury of getting really [...]
Let’s Take a Road Trip…
SOME FRIENDS, A JEEP AND A DREAM
It started out simple enough — the old “wouldn’t it be fun to…” kind of idle chat between two friends on a lazy summer afternoon.
“Wouldn’t it be fun to take the Jeep and drive Route 66 to California…”
Between us, “Cactus Killer” and I had done an awful lot of [...]
how many route 66's are there?
So i got some more maps yesterday (individual state maps from AAA)… and started doing the route plan more precisely… and that’s when i realized that Route 66 is, in some cases, a multiple choice menu…
The historical re-alignments of the road over time have left us with choices… do we take the older version thru [...]
Bought a map
Today I bought a map. Actually it is a “road atlas” of the United States, and hopefully it will help me figure out the route we have to take, so that i can plug it all into a mapping program and figure out roughly how long the trip will really take.
I mean we know it [...]
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