We made it back to our desired destination last night, although rather later than we wanted. The restaurant we ate at in Flagstaff was an old Route 66 place called Granny’s Closet, that used to be home of the very first fiberglass muffler man/lumberjack statue. They donated it to the University of Arizona as a
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Route 66: The Grand Canyon
Grand Canyon
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Route 66: Grand Canyon Railroad
Grand Canyon Railroad: Train Entertainment
Col. Jim Garvey Train Robbers! Dangerous Varmints!
Read on »Route 66, Day 11: Morning in Williams, Arizona, near the Grand Canyon
Yesterday was a long drive from Albuquerque to Williams, Arizona, and the timezone changes haven’t helped too much, because we keep staying up an hour later. But we had a lot of fun and a bit of trouble yesterday. We headed out in the morning with a couple of pitstops along the way. We really
Read on »Route 66: Cool Old Motel Signs
A variety of signs I caught photos of in and around Gallup, New Mexico as we continued on our Route 66 Trip with the rest of the caravan.
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Wow
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Route 66, Day 10: On to Albuquerque
We drove into Albuquerque yesterday, which is really beautiful city cradled in mountains, so every view has a gorgeous backdrop. I can see why people move out west; the landscape is so stunning. The sunset last night was really pretty. A small part of the trip was on old Route 66, so we drove through
Read on »Route 66, Day 9, Morning: Leaving Roswell
We’re in the car heading out from Roswell with 14 other beetles, on the way to Albuquerque, which is back on route 66. It’s a fairly short trip – just 4 hours – so we’ll have time to stop at the VW dealer there to get Phoebe’s mass airflow sensor. John thinks he can put
Read on »Route 66 RoswellR2K Road Rally: First Place Win
We Won the road rally!
Read on »Route 66, Day 8: Sunday Morning, Roswell
Yesterday was the Car Show at the Roswell Convention Center and Beetle parade through Roswell; lots of fun; the weather was very hot. I have tons of pictures; the modifications on cars are dizzying; I can’t keep track of them all. I found myself wanting a beetle, too. Today though, I realize I need to
Read on »The Roswell R2K Show 2007
Tons of cool cars. This guy modded his for off-road.
Read on »Route 66, Day 6: Morning, Roswell NM
Yesterday was great; nice and leisurely. We really enjoyed Blue Swallow in Tucumcari. It was a nice change from the Motel 6, homey, clean and pleasantly retro. It reminded me a bit of the motel room in The Lost Room which does a lot to recommend it. Tucumcari has a long strip where the businesses
Read on »Route 66, Morning, Day 5: Blue Swallow Motel in Tucumcari, New Mexico
I’m up and about in the motel room; Stephanie’s trying to catch a bit more sleep. We’ve been cutting it pretty short on the sleeping, by arriving very late and getting up with the rest of the caravan. Hopefully today we can hang out and be more leisurely; we only have about a 4 hour
Read on »Route 66: Tulsa to Amarillo
We left Tulsa in some pretty tricky traffic, which is really fun in a caravan of 17 people. Our first stop was the shoe tree, but we did a drive-by, although I think one of our leaders really wanted us to stop. Our next stop was the Rock Cafe in Stroud, a 1939 Route 66
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Rock Cafe, Route 66
Read on »Route 66 – Morning, Day 4: St. Louis to Tulsa
Yesterday’s drive from St. Louis to Tulsa was pretty long. I knew when we were still at the hotel and they had 6 stops listed before we were supposed to be in Barton Springs, Kansas for lunch that our trip leaders were a bit overly-optimistic about what we could accomplish. We hopped on parts of
Read on »Route 66: Beetles at Devil’s Elbow
Beetles lined up outside the Devil’s Elbow Inn
Read on »Route 66, Morning Day 3: Morning in St. Louis
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Read on »Route 66, Day 2: Chicago to St. Louis
I had some trouble getting my bluetooth connection to the internet this evening (this motel 6 in St. Louis doesn’t have wireless) so I don’t know if I’ll be able to upload any of the 212 photos I took today. We woke up this morning and met the rest of the caravan, took tons of
Read on »Route 66: Dinner at the Cozy Dog
@ the cozy dog
Read on »Route 66: Did I say 5 other beetles? I meant 12
We finally pulled into the motel at 11 Chicago time, and saw a huge row of beetles lined up; very fun. Too dark to take photos. Traffic in Chicago sucked hard, but we managed to get into town, finally. We parked in a scary-ass parking garage with the steepest ramps I’ve ever seen, and went
Read on »Smart cars in Chicago
Test drove Smart cars in Lincoln park, ate dinner. Now headed to Joliet to meet caravan.
Read on »Hey, guys! I’m blogging from the car!
The car, I’m blogging from it! I’ve got the ability to blog via my Motorola Razr via email in place, so I can update from the car while we’re traveling. We’re on the road in Phoebe, with lisa and Jason behind us, headed up to Chicago. I believe the plan is to get some food
Read on »Pod o’ Space behind us….
Pod o’ Space behind us on the road.
Read on »Route 66: all packed and ready to head out.
The car’s packed, and we’re waiting on Lisa and Jason to head out. Spacepod seems to be here! We’re off to get our kicks on Route 66!
Read on »Keeping up with us on the road
Our Route 66 Itinerary [Google Mapped] I will be blogging as regularly as I can here, uploading photos to flickr, and sending updates via twitter. The Route 66 caravan to Roswell will have a live Web cam along for the ride. Our friend Lisa Linn, Web geek extraordinaire and owner of Spacepod, runs live web
Read on »Route 66 Space Mix
I think I have something close to a final version of my music mix for the CD swap we’re doing for our Route 66 trip. I want to listen to it through a couple of times. It’s a bit on the cheesy and obvious side, but that’s okay. I’d do better if I had all
Read on »Route 66 Mapping
The Mother Road: Historic Route 66 – a great information website has “Turn by Turn” maps that identify where Route 66 is, since some of the original road is no longer, and most of it isn’t marked with highway markers anymore. Turn by Turn Route 66 in Google Maps – Some kind Google Earth enthusiast
Read on »Get Your Kicks on Route 66
At the end of June, Stephanie and I are going to take her new Beetle, Phoebe, on the annual road trip caravan to Roswell, New Mexico – Roswell 2k. This year there’s a Route 66 version of the trip, which we’ll be joining in Chicago, along with several of Stephanie’s Beetle-owning friends. So we’ll drive
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