The west was being opened and from trails such as the Santa Fe Trail, Jedediah Smith’s route across the Mojave Desert to San Bernardino and Beale’s Wagon Road across New Mexico and Arizona a transportation corridor began to emerge.

Not all of them are, but the Munger Moss Motel in Lebanon, MO, the Blue Swallow and Safari in Tucumcari, NM and the Supai in Selignam, AZ are a few I've found to be adequate, if not great.With the gold rush of 1849, thousands of people sought routes to California, publicizing the area in an unprecedented way. Do your homework and know what to avoid and what classic motels are worth staying in. Don't always assume that everyone you meet will have your best interests at heart. It does get depressing when you realize you took for granted that LA traffic couldn't last for three hours, then watch a lot of the sites you wanted to visit pass by as ghosts on the GPS as you drive the last two hours in the dark. I have a dedicated GPS unit that I've filled with sites and stops, which helps a lot. Most of the time you're doing a bit of driving between stops. At times if comes at you too quickly to process, but that generally only happens in the bigger cities.

There is a ton to see if you have an interest in the American roadside. the Route isn't always easy to find, and at times it has ceased to exist at all. Buy the guidebooks, get in touch with the individual states, download an app. Louis this fall depending on the Covid situation. I've yet to do the entire Route, but at different times I have completed it from St. Thank you for your hard work preserving our History. More and more of those who returned to Pioneer this road back are fading. In Seligman, Angel Delgadillo realized not only did they get bypassed, there was not even a mention of the existence of the Amazing little town. The feeling portrayed in that moment, the feeling of being forgotten, even betrayed is wrenching. And it was just quiet.Ĥ- Watch the Disney Pixar movie Cars. People smiling and laughing became those shadows. Remembers not just year, the month day the traffic stopped, he remembers the exact minute. And in a moment, nothing.Īngel Delgadillo (Guardian Angel of Route 66) This place roared with life, possibilities, new future and peoples livelihood. A lifetime of work had disappeared in a moment, this WAS the Yellow Brick Road.Ģnd- The empty, as well as the sights are part of the lesson here.īe prepared to stop where things are, where they were, and where shadows only exist.ģrd- Stop on a deserted stretch, (there will be some) and listen. Watch some, read some, listen some, then there will never be 'nothing to see'! 1st- You must, must, MUST do some homework!

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