Route66

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Road trips, travel and Americana.

Route66 is the open road. Full-time travelers, sign photographers and classic-car cruisers get their kicks here.

Featured Homesteads in Route66

	Hank & Peggy's Great American Road Trip by Hank & Peggy S., retired · Route66/Diner Two retirees, one 1995 conversion van, and the whole country one state at a time. Home of the Backroads WebRing.
	Neon Nights: Old Signs of the Mother Road by Glenn F., photographer · Route66/Motel A hobbyist's log of the neon motel and diner signs still lit along old Route 66.
	The Corvette Diaries by Lou and Marie P. · Route66/Garage Weekend drives, club cruise-ins and the care of a 1972 Corvette Stingray.
	The Roadside Attraction Log by Dwayne and Rhonda Peabody · Route66/Mile Giant fiberglass men, mystery spots and the world's largest things, visited and rated.
	Truck Stop Reviews by 'Big Ed' Gadd, long-haul driver · Route66/Crossroads A trucker's ratings of truck stops from Ohio to California: showers, coffee, parking and pie.
	Postcards from the 1950s by Evelyn Gardner · Route66/Postcard A collection of linen and chrome postcards, described card by card, and the history of the picture postcard.
	Motel Matchbook Collection by Bud Rayner · Route66/Motel Two thousand motel and diner matchbooks from the 1940s to today, sorted by state and remembered.
	Small-Town Diner Reviews by Peg and Lou Barstow · Route66/Crossroads A retired couple rates diners across the Midwest on pie, coffee and whether the waitress calls you hon.
	Route 66 Classic Car Rentals BUSINESS Route66/Garage Rent a 1950s or 60s convertible for the day or the weekend, for cruises, weddings and photographs.
	Starting Over at Mile Zero JOURNAL by Stacy Renfro · Route66/Mile A woman who left an abusive marriage writes from a transitional apartment in Albuquerque about safety, work and her kids.
	Room 12 JOURNAL by Jade, 13 · Route66/Crossroads A thirteen-year-old writes from the weekly motel where she and her mom have lived since the eviction.
	The Night Clerk JOURNAL by Vernon Two Bulls · Route66/Motel A Lakota night clerk at a motel on the old highway writes about his guests, his kids and staying sober.
	Life on the Road (and Off It) by Orville Banks · Route66/Diner A retired long-haul trucker looks back on two million miles and settles into a house that doesn't move.
	Cimarron Valley Model Railroad Club by Gordon Soloman · Route66/Crossroads Our HO scale Cimarron & Western, 1956 western Oklahoma, in the old Rock Island depot. Operating sessions, open house and work nights.
	Six Days to Juniper Flat by Lorna Hatchett · Route66/Crossroads A Western serial, a new chapter every Saturday. An old marshal, a boy who saw too much, and Wyoming Territory in 1878.
	Wind Side of the Barn - Cowboy Poetry by Hollis Brummett · Route66/Diner Rhymed cowboy poems from an old Texas Panhandle rancher: horses that won't load, calving in a norther, and my wife's roses.
	Tumbleweed's Last 10-7 by Dottie Sigler · Route66/Postcard For my dad, Mike Felton, who drove a truck out of Amarillo for thirty years and sent home a postcard from almost every trip.
	Bill and Laura's Route 66 Anniversary Trip by William Allen · Route66/Postcard A retired machinist and his wife drove old Route 66 from Chicago to the Santa Monica Pier for their 40th anniversary in June 1999. Day by day, with snapshots and the numbers from Laura's notebook.
	Al & Pat's Alaska Cruise - June 1999 by Allen and Patricia Starnes · Route66/Postcard Seven nights up the Inside Passage for Pat's retirement: Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay, Ketchikan and the midnight buffet. Our pictures and Pat's notes.
	Dots and Dashes: My Forty Years on the Railroad by John Russell · Route66/Crossroads I copied train orders in Morse code from 1935 to 1975. Depots, blizzards and troop trains, a chapter at a time as Kenny types them.
	Pine Hollow Park, 1924-1987 by Timmy Tidwell · Route66/Mile The wooden coaster, the carousel, the ballroom and the lake: a north Georgia park that closed on Labor Day 1987, remembered by a kid who went every summer.
	The Under Construction Museum by Gene Stockton · Route66/Mile Thirty-one years of real road work, and now I curate the Web's under-construction signs. Exhibits, a foreman's reviews, and when to take yours down.
	Larry & Marilyn's Lighthouse Hunt - Lake Michigan 1999 by Larry and Marilyn Asher · Route66/Motel Eleven lighthouses up the Michigan shore in eight days, from the Grand Haven pier to the Mackinac Bridge. That makes 47 on our list since 1993.
	The Bear Hollow Branch TrainCam by Glenn Thomas · Route66/Crossroads My HO railroad in an Altoona basement, live. Trains run Tuesday and Thursday nights and Saturday afternoons; otherwise it's a very quiet little town.
	Grandma & Grandpa's Black Hills Trip by Bob and Annette Bozeman · Route66/Mile Six days, two grandkids and the Black Hills: Mount Rushmore, a buffalo jam, the Badlands, Devils Tower and every motel pool in South Dakota. July 1999.
	The Little Gem - Our 1957 Canned Ham Trailer by Thomas Comer · Route66/Garage A 13-foot 1957 trailer from a farm auction: $350 and a family of mice. Now she's turquoise and white, and we camped in her over Labor Day.
	Adam and Eve on a Raft: A Waitress's Dictionary by Arlene Long · Route66/Diner Forty-one years of pouring coffee, the last fourteen on the graveyard shift off I-40 in Amarillo. The old diner talk, A to Z, and my regulars.
	Wide Awake at the Wheel by Bart Quackenbush · Route66/Crossroads I drifted onto the rumble strip on I-70 at noon. Turns out I'd quit breathing all night for years. A trucker's sleep apnea page.
	His Way and Her Way: Two Ways to Build a Home Page by Nelson and Pauline Nott · Route66/Postcard He built his half in Notepad. She built hers with Page Builder. Married 43 years, and we're still arguing about who won.
	Lies from the Liars' Bench by Leroy Thornton · Route66/Diner I've sat on the liars' bench outside the feed store since 1946. Every word here is a lie, and I'll swear to all of them.
	Welcome to Apartment 3B! The Official Visitor's Guide by Trisha Moyer · Route66/Postcard Plan your visit to Dayton's most exciting one-bedroom! Attractions, lodging (the futon), dining (the toaster oven) and a calendar of events.
	Prairie Pinks Depression Glass Club by Florence Stirling · Route66/Mile Topeka collectors of the pink, green and amber glass of the '20s and '30s. Our 22nd show and sale October 16-17, patterns and reproduction alerts.
	Ms. Pac-Man at the Truck Stop by Donna Kissel · Route66/Diner Me and the Ms. Pac-Man machine at a truck stop off I-70, since 1982: my high scores, my tips, and the day somebody beat me.
	Welcome Wagon: A Community Leader's Guide for New Homesteaders by Robert Brannen · Route66/Crossroads New in the Neighborhood? A volunteer Community Leader's guide to your first week on GeoCities.us, and all 41 Neighborhoods in a sentence each.
	The View from Booth 3 by Barbara Brehmer · Route66/Mile Nineteen years taking tickets and making change on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. A new Top Ten every Sunday, and the archive since spring.
	Three Hours South by Valarie Gainey · Route66/Mile My mom lives alone in West Virginia, three hours from my house in Columbus. Long-distance caregiving: the drive, the notebook, the help, and the guilt.
	Save the Bethel Ford Covered Bridge! by Nellie Webster · Route66/Postcard Our 1883 covered bridge in west-central Indiana closed in April. The county wants it gone; we want it fixed. The story, and how to help.
	Down the River: The McFarlands' Mississippi Houseboat Trip by Marion and Anne McFarland · Route66/Postcard We retired in June, bought a 32-foot houseboat and pointed it downstream. Letters from the river towns, his and hers, from Red Wing to St. Louis.
	Riding Shotgun - Tink's Year on the Road by James Paul · Route66/Crossroads Five pounds of toy fox terrier, 120,000 miles a year and 44 states so far. A year in the cab with Tink, from the Wyoming snow to the Colorado high country and home to Joplin.
	THE OFFICIAL RULES OF SHOTGUN by Albert, 16 · Route66/Postcard You must be outside. You must see the car. No calling it from the kitchen. Twenty-two official rules of shotgun, the amendments, and the Supreme Court of Mom.

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