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Road Trips Revisited - A Route 66 - Research Paper

Road Trips Revisited - A Route 66

Prior to moving to Arizona from Switzerland two years ago, I have spent
almost all of my vacation time from 1987-1992 (thanks to 6 weeks vacation
time per year and airline benefits) visiting the U.S.A. and taking
extensive road trips across the country. I followed the same pattern each
time, choosing a bunch of cities from a Rand McNally atlas that are less
than a day's drive apart, arranging for a rental car and finding the motels
and attractions as I went along. Many great memories, impressions,
experiences and photos remain from those days.

Though traveling off the tourist path I often stayed on the interstates
between medium-sized cities. I have been on I-40 between Oklahoma ...

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by the pictures,
the small towns, the old gas stations, the hamburger joints and the old
signs. This was what had always fascinated me on the road too, more than
the National Parks, Disneyland and the skyscrapers together!

I finally bought the book last year and the Route 66 mystery started to
unfold. My wife and I took a road trip from Phoenix to Detroit last June
but due to time concerns had to pass up on most of the "kicks". Now I
really wanted to do a Route 66 trip! We set aside the time to make up for
it last November and decided to go West on 66 from Flagstaff. We labeled I-
40 "the evil road" and corporate fast food and motel chains would be off
limits. Regardless of schedule, we would also take the time to stop
wherever there was something Route 66 related to see. After all, I had
bought my first SLR camera a few months prior and was ready to try it on
the road.

So off we went in November 1994. Our first 66 stop was right after I-40
exit 139 where we admired the original ...

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Added: 11/1/2008 11:04:32 AM
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