Historic Route 66 Question

[jrd]

Anyone here ever do the Historic Route 66 run from Chicago to California? If so, what were your impressions? I am thinking about making the run later in the year, or maybe next year.

Thanks!
John

I'll meet ya in L.A..... I'm sure Blowndodge and the whole Calif. crew will too!




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[jrd]

I'll meet ya in L.A..... I'm sure Blowndodge and the whole Calif. crew will too!




http://www.cnn.com/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/9802/route66/graphics/route.66.map.gifAll right, I'll let ya know when I plan to make the trip. ;)

John

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[trip]

I'e been thinking about doing the same thing, jrd....only planning a Route 66 ride from Texas up through Missouri.

Trip

[Top Cat]

There is a write up on that trip in the May issue of Motorcycle Cruiser mag. The guy took a solo trip on a Harley. It's kind of a different type write up but you can get some info from it.

[ou365]

Let me know when you guys come through Oklahoma...i got the first round!

[tomk]

I'll meet ya in L.A..... I'm sure Blowndodge and the whole Calif. crew will too!




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Absolutely!

[rickyboy]

JRD,
If you're planning it for next year and it's not an invitation only ....keep me posted. Or {"invite me"}I'd love to do a trip like that with a bunch of like minded people. I'm going to ride down from Vancouver to the Grand Canyon area this summer but I only have 2 wks. so I'll have time to see a bit of it. Keep me posted and on the list if you want to set this up. Where would it be starting from?
Rickyboy

[jrd]

JRD,
If you're planning it for next year and it's not an invitation only ....keep me posted. Or {"invite me"}I'd love to do a trip like that with a bunch of like minded people. I'm going to ride down from Vancouver to the Grand Canyon area this summer but I only have 2 wks. so I'll have time to see a bit of it. Keep me posted and on the list if you want to set this up. Where would it be starting from?
Rickyboy

I would be leaving from Racine, WI. Which is just south of Milwaukee, get on Route 66 in Chicago, and follow it all the way out to California. I think I will have to do it in 09, I don't think I can pool the resources to do that and the run to Washington that I will be making in June both in the same year. I'll keep ya posted.

John

Mac rode part of old 66. I'm surprised he didn't chime in here yet.

As I recall, it didn't impress him all that much.

[jrd]

Mac rode part of old 66. I'm surprised he didn't chime in here yet.

As I recall, it didn't impress him all that much.

That's what I was wondering, is it really worth the effort to travel the entire route? Is there enough left on the road to make it worth the trip? If not, I would take an alternate route, but, I am planning a trip out to California next year. Got to fill in the Southern States you know http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif

Thanks,
John

[flightdoc]

jrd,

If you do this in 2009. I would be very interested in going along. I read the article that TC mentioned and am very intrigued.

vin

[macmac]

I am new here and haven't been in every room.
I rode Rt 66 in parts, and found some parts can't be ridden at all unless you like the idea of riding on baked to stone loaves of bread spaced about 2 loaves distance from each other, like riding on railroad ties, only the spaces are deeper.

That was between Barstow and Needles and I wasted no time getting on boring I 40. In Az it is bits and pieces too some dirt, some not bad at all like in Williams.

Many things are gone, or were not seemingly open much if ever anymore. There was a tee pee like motel with lots of old cars, one at each tee pee. These were motel rooms once decked out top look like a tee pee, made of anything but canvass or buffaelo hides...

Some where there was one big arrow of 2 sticking in the ground...

So you can ride parts of old 66, and then you might find you just rode down a long dead end, only to be forced unless you are nuts and want to play dirt biker on a nomad. I got fed up in NM, and got off, went down to Carls Bad caverns.

I don't know east of that other than in Indiania I saw a sign saying I crossed on my way west.

I did like Williams, but for more reasons than Rt 66 as i am a buck skinner aka mountain man circa 1805-1840.

One caution is don't get near it if there will be rain.. I didn't see the rain because I missed it by maybe 15 minutes, but it washed big rocks an lots of sand into what was once a road.

So as long as you have gas, water to drink more than you need, don't mind turning back, all I can say is don't ride more in than you mind turning back.

Ain't nobody comin to get you either, so don't get hurt. I tinkered around in "Bagdad" Az playing with little lizards, and took a old sun beaten RT 66 logo pic in the road, smoked a bunch, and peed in the middle of that road and nuthin but buzzards took note.

[dogdoc]

be sure and take your k-y with you if your riding all the way to CA guys,,,,,

[flightdoc]

WOW....what you guys have to say don't match at all what the magazine article said. Interesting.

The part Mac rode on is part that was really abandoned when they put in the interstate. He's really fond of desolate places, but eventually I think he got off it because it was like towing the trailer with square wheels. My family traveled that same stretch back in 1959 & it was in much better shape then. ;)

Places I have seen where they've maintained 66 through the populated areas are OK as far as road goes, if a bit touristy, and that was back in the late '70's so I imagine the "touristy" part is worse now.

[macmac]

That's true. I like remote places, and live in them. OT, but I rode Rt 50 out of Utah and thru Nevada, and the skeeters there have no idea man is fit to eat.

I was sorely dissapointed the tee pee lodges were closed. They looked as if they could be open, and maybe October isn't the time to be there.

We dropped down to see Lk Havasue and did, then went to Quartizite, which definatlely isn't a place to be in Oct.

[tomk]

Would anyone be interested in doing a "relay" run? For example, those of us in CA could finish the ride that was handed off from AZ, etc., etc, all the way to the start?

Only if it ends at a bar somewhere in Clovis California. http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif

[tomk]

Got you Cad and the maintenance. But it's not going to last forever, is it?

No, eventually I'll stick my nose south of the grapevine again.

Actually, I trying to get my carp together to ride across the desert to Zions this Summer. I was supposed to go to the Grand Canyon, but that might get just a short fly-by on the way back from Utah.

Much depends on the mood of my wife, and I will be very reluctant to go on a long trip without her. I've done it before, but we've been together so long now that I kinda have "symptoms" when I'm away from her for too long.

That doesn't sound too macho, but I guess I musta got all that macho out of my system back in the old days or something.

Anyhow, my wife likes to travel even more than I do, so prospects are good. Whether I can get her to travel across the desert in the summer on a motorcycle is another story. I did manage to drag her almost all the way to Crescent City and back on the bike, so there is hope.

[blowndodge]

I wish mine would like to travel on motorcycles. NOT!!

I wish mine would like to travel on motorcycles. NOT!!


Lay down the law brother.

Well I guess a lot depends on who you're married to, but I find the Nomad is much more comfortable and stable with a passenger. I really prefer her to ride with me.

I'm not always sure what she prefers though...
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She does like the famous landmarks though...
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And she doesn't scare easily...
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[blowndodge]

And she doesn't scare easily...




Isn't that obvious???? she married you didn't she?? http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif

Fearless! The woman is fearless. http://s2.images.proboards.com/grin.gif

[flightdoc]

Mine likes to ride. I would want to do the whole trip. One of my kids lives in Wyoming, we may want to stop there.