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• Cross-country Corvair trip raises funds for brain injuries

  
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  Photo courtesy Mark Palmer. With their 1963 Corvair Monza coupe tuned and ready to take on the exciting adventure of crossing this great country of ours, brothers-in-law Mark Palmer and Steve Schlott are currently driving to California from Michigan via Route 66 as a fundraiser for the non-profit group Brain Injury ...
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• Route 66 guys get their kicks at Leno’s Garage

  
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  Back in 2009, Bob Walton and Sal Santoro embarked on the trip of a lifetime, crossing the U.S. in Walton’s 1968 Cadillac de Ville convertible. When they returned, Walton wrote a story for the March 2010 Hemmings Motor News “Reminiscing” column, recalling the 7,292-mile journey from New Jersey to Santa ...
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• Kick off the Summer with a Cruise-in at Boppin’ Bo’s

  
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  Route 66, once known as the Main Street of America since it was one of our early roads cutting through the heart of America. Its fame spawned songs, a hit TV show of the same name and epitomized the American love affair with our cars as many envisioned cruising down the highway, with the top down, listening to the ...
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• Cars Land gets repaved as Disneyland goes to Fullerton Railroad Days

  
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  Disney California Adventure‘s new Cars Land area is getting some major work done as its version of Route 66 gets repaved less than a year after opening. The repaving work was needed after the incredibly… The post Cars Land gets repaved as Disneyland goes to Fullerton Railroad Days appeared first on MiceChat .
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• Following the signs on Route 66; dreaming of signs on the Michigan Road

  
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  Following Route 66 can be tricky. Various Interstates were built along and across its path, interrupting it. And the road itself was moved and improved many times during its life. That’s why I kept Jerry McClanahan’s  EZ 66 Guide for Travelers  in my lap as we drove the Mother Road. It gave turn-by-turn ...
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• THIS IS WHAT IT FEELS LIKE

  
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  New clip from Armin Van Buuren, its a bit corny but that it was shot along Route 66 and at the Bagdad Cafe is what made me pay attention as I was there in January last year... This old caravan appears in a fair few shots This is the cafe Ron Jeremy kicks them out of ...
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• Captured: Pops!!

  
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  Trip fatigue hit in Oklahoma. My sons felt it first. When we stopped for the night east of Tulsa on Wednesday, my youngest announced that he wouldn’t mind if we turned around for home in the morning. I felt for him, but we had one more day on the itinerary and (more importantly) nonrefundable hotel reservations near ...
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• Santa Monica on the beach

  
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  The Santa Monica Mountains are the dominant feature of Pacific Coast Highway on the 50 miles from Oxnard to Santa Monica. The crumbling coast ridge of mountains comes right to the sea and the road winds along the rock faces for this stretch with Malibu houses and estates sprinkled around like large boulders on loose ...
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• Carspotting, Route 66 edition

  
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  I photographed so many old cars along Route 66 that I just couldn’t save them for my annual end-of-the-year Carspotting post. Here they all are, from east to west. 1966 Chevrolet/Superior school bus.  Bob Waldmire was one of the best friends an old road ever had. Splitting his time between Arizona and ...
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• WELCOME TO BEAUTIFUL ARIZONA

  
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  This installment in my series of insider guides to great places to visit in the United States features the very special State of Arizona, a breathtaking wonderland in the American Southwest. Our tour guide is my Embassy colleague Mischa Brewer, who grew up in Arizona and will share her personal perspective on the ...
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• Restored Phillips 66 service station on Route 66

  
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  They call Spencer a ghost town, but I say that there would have to be more town here for it to qualify. This dot on the southwest Missouri map has but one row of buildings, capped by this restored Phillips 66 service station. It’s the last thing you expect to find as you turn onto this old, almost forgotten ...
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• John’s Modern Cabins

  
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  As long as there have been cars, anyone driving a long distance has needed a place to bed down for the night. In the early days of auto travel, they camped, at first in friendly farmers’ fields and later on rented roadside campgrounds. Next, primitive cabins were built as a place for travelers to sleep, and later ...
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• A Kodak Brownie Hawkeye and expired film on the Mother Road

  
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  You’d better believe I took one of my old cameras along on my family’s Route 66 trip. Kodak’s 1950s Brownie Hawkeye undoubtedly shot millions of vacations in the middle of the last century, and it is relatively compact and dead simple to use. It seemed like the perfect companion for my family’s Route 66 ...
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• Get Your Kicks...With Someone You Already Know

  
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  Get your kicks…with someone you already know By Kris Neri There are places where the most amazing connections occur. Idescribe them as spots of coincidence. Sedona, Arizona, where my husband and I own a bookstore, TheWell Red Coyote, is one of those places. In my time there, I’ve witnessed themost ...
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• Backpacking Dad’s Southwest Road Trip (Part 3): Flagstaff

  
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  This is Part 2 in a series of stories (and tips) from our most recent road trip. Read Part 1, on the Calico Ghost Town, here , and Part 2, on Las Vegas, here . We left the Las Vegas Strip just after lunch, and started making our way out of town. Before we had hit the city limit, though, Erin asked us to ...
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• Great bridges on Route 66

  
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  Ok, so I’m going to level with you. I wanted to write a whole post about just this bridge. 38, count them, thirty-eight  glorious spans! It’s almost 4,000 feet long! It absolutely took my breath away. I forgive you if you don’t share my enthusiasm. It’s officially known as the William H. Murray ...
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• So What: Local News, Notes & Links

  
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  Heres the latest wrap-up of assorted links and short local news items of interest: * Theres more coverage of this weekends Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival from KWMU , KPLR , and KTRS . * KWMUs Dennis Owsley has a preview of the third installment of his radio history of St. Louis jazz (airing at 9:00 p.m. ...
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• The giants of Route 66

  
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  If ever you drive Route 66, be sure to stop to see the many giant things placed along the way. It’s American kitsch at its finest. Our very first stop on our Route 66 trip was to see the Gemini Giant in Wilmington, Illinois. It stands watch over the road next to the Launching Pad Diner. If you think this ...
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• Coney Island And The Santa Monica Pier

  
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  Two amusement parks on the ocean at each end of America. Must have been weird to drive from one to the other seeing that Elmer Gantry, Hank Williams, Chuck Berry, Jack Kerouac, Betsy Ross America pass by in the never stopping long winding days and  happy/sad boozy neon nights of all of America in between. ...
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• Restored Standard service station on Route 66

  
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  We were in the first hours of our Route 66 trip’s first day when we reached Odell, a small northern-Illinois town, and its wonderful Standard service station. You know how it is early on a road trip. The excitement is fresh, your eyes are wide open, and you want to stop and look at everything. At the other end ...
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