I’ve started something of a memoirs type writing of my travels.
This will be something of a review of the routes I have taken. I am including notes of some of my favorites places for food, lodging and points of interest from those trips. Most of the restaurants and motels from those early trips are no [...]
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The Final Chapter
The Flight of the Vampire
I retired early to my sumptuous [...]
I’m listing a few items for translation between two variations from the English language. I mentioned the quote from (I believe it was attributed to George Bernard Shaw)- “England and America are two countries separated by the same language.” – which applies to the below.
If there are corrections or additions, please feel [...]
On a recent trip to Oklahoma, I traveled parts of old Route 66 from just west of Oklahoma City to Sayre. The first point of interest was the old bridge at the north edge of Lake Overholser between Bethany and Yukon. It’s on a short loop of the old paving just south of the [...]
My brother sent me this.
I don’t know the answers to the location or any other details, so any comments will be welcomed. Is this company still in business ?, Just to name one questtion.
The graphics look 1950-ish, so the only assumption I can make is it that it dates from that time, which would have [...]
Many of the attractions along Route 66 have been around for quite some time.
La Posada at Winslow, Arizona for example. It ws designed by Mary Jane Coulter, who also desiged many of the other show places of the Fred Harvey establishments. La Posada was built in 1930 and survived the depression only to be later [...]
Dr. Andrews Ismay Smith, Ph.D., ( a remotely related descendant of the family of a captain of an ill-fated ocean liner and whose first and middle names were for those of ancestors who were connected with ocean liners in the 1910’s) is a Professor at the Northern University of [...]
Many of the old restaurants along Old Route 66 are no longer in operation, but happily there are some who have survived and are doing quite well, thank you !
One of these is Joseph’s Restaurant along the main street in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. It advertises itself as being in operation since 1956. The old [...]
If you really want to see some of the old historic landmarks along old Route 66, you will have to get off the Interstate occasionally. In this case if you are headed westbound on I-40, exit at Mile 53 at Kingman, Arizona; eastbound tourists can exit at Mile 48.
Historic Route 66 through Kingman, Arizona [...]
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Old Route 66 between Needles and Barstow, California is also designated as The National Old Trails Highway. The old route from the turnoff at the exit west of Needles to the return to Interstate Highway 40 at Ludlow, California is about 75 miles – only about 9 miles longer than the direct route on [...]