The Famous Route 66
I know its hard to follow Route 66 these days, with so many parts of the road in need of repairs or just not heavily traveled, but I would like to ride on it someday. I hear that you can find a lot of great shops and places to buy souvieners along the famous Route 66. This famous road is also called The Mother Road or the Main Street in America. Some people has even referred to it as the Will Rogers Highway. The road was open for travelers back in the 1920′s and it started in Chicago and ran across the country and ended in Los Angeles. If you started on Route 66 in Chicago and traveled to the very end of it in Los Angeles, you would be covering almost 2,500 miles of road, that would lead you through 8 states. Kansas and Texas make up less than 200 miles of the famous route 66, but you would get a good view of the other states if you were to take the entire journey.
The sad story behind Route 66 is the invention of the interstate. Route 66 isn’t a road that you can travel 70 MPH on like the interstates, so when the interstates started popping up, Route 66 became a less traveled road. Many of the businesses along the famous path have went out of business, but many efforts are going on today, to try and restore some of those businesses that are still standing today. Travelers today can still find some great shops along the way and there have also been museums and state parks created along the route for tourists to stop in and get a feel for the historic highway. There is always going to be a small part of Route 66 that runs through this country, I just hope I can get a chance to see it soon, as more and more of the famous highway is lost each year.
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