My son and I drove from Wisconsin, through Illinois, Missouri, Kansas (a little), Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, and back. Maybe 30% non-Interstate, but fairly true to the Dust Bowl refugees of the 1930s and vacationers of the post-WWII Baby Boom. I shot stereotypes and not; abandoned gas stations, tumbleweeds; gorgeous scenery and oddball scenery; a Carson City laundromat with a liquor license and cafeteria; dented nuclear bombs; shoe-sizing X-ray machine. Favorite picture was not shot with my snazzy Nikon DSLR, but by my son with a little Kodak digital: a crushed Lincoln Town Car on an LA street. Slides with "Route 66" song locales are marked with the green music icon.

1. Joe &Kevin
Summer2006
= city in “Route 66” song

12. Springfield

13. Cozy Dog Drive-In: Birthplace of the Corn Dog

44. Carlinville: Macoupin County Seat

50. Approaching
Collinsville . . .

52. Mt. Olive

73. St. Louis

81. Lewis &Clark Museum,
underGateway Arch

84. Village of Times Beach . . . Before

85. Village of Times Beach . . . Before

86. Village of Times Beach . . . Before

87. After. . .
it was declared a toxic waste site, buried . .
.

88. . . . and turned into a state park.

92. Rollo, including Stonehenge model built by
University of Missouri engineering students

98. Jesse James Country

102. 1923 Devil’s Elbow Bridge overBig Piney
River

104. Marshfield:
Birthplace of
Astronomer
Edwin Hubble

105. Joplin

110. Bank turned restaurant in Baxter
Springs

114. Okla
homa

115. Downtown Miami (pronounced my-am-uh)

116. 9-foot wide
stretch of
old 66
pavement, south
of Miami.

117. Vinita

119. Art Deco Boston Avenue Methodist Church,
Tulsa

120. Oklahoma City
National Cowboy Hall of Fame

123. Deadwood, SD, saddle from
Selleck movie CrossfireTrail

125. Two James Earle Fraser
statues, this one and . .
.

128. Lakota WinterCount (calendar)

144. Also at the
National
Memorial . . .

145. Hydro tornado
shelter,
pedestrian
underpass, and . .
.

147. Weatherford

151. MIG-21
Fishbed

152. F-16 fighterjet
and Sidewinder
missle

155. 1957 Sputnik
mockup
1975 Apollo-
Soyuz coupler

156. Saturn V engine. Coming soon . . .

158. Dad’s favorite plane, F-104 Starfighter

160. 1930s Art Deco
Post Office
emblem
Sayre
Beckham County Courthouse,
seen in Grapes of Wrath movie.

165. McLean

167. Texas CarHumor

169. “Bug Ranch,”
Conway

171. Cadillac Ranch

176. Groom’s 100-foot cross
and intentionally
leaning watertower

177. Amarillo

178. Straddles Texas-New Mexico border

180. Old 66 dirt road into New Mexico

182. T forTucumcari on Tucumcari Mountain

184. Albuquerque
National Atomic Museum
Unused “Fat Man” bomb, 1945

185. More dangerous objects . . .
Actual dented nukes from B-52 collision overSpain,
1966

186. artillery shell nuclearwarhead Bikini
namesake

187. Nazi artifacts
crossbow

188. Shoe store X-ray machine
and early “nuclear
medicine”

189. Gallup

191. Looking into Arizona from west edge of New
Mexico

194. Painted Desert section of Petrified Forest National
Forest

202. Badlands-type area of National
Forest

205. Puerco Pueblo area of Forest, 1100-1400 A.D.

206. Ancient Petroglyphs

210. in Winslow, Arizona

211. Abandoned steel bridge on the edge of Winona.

212. Flagstaff

213. Route 66
Trading Post
at Seligman

214. Kingman

216. Needle
s

218. Barstow

219. Wig Wam
Motel, San
Bernadino

223. Pasadena

225. Los Angeles

231. Petersen Automotive
Museum
1939 Bugatti showroom

232. 1914 Dudley Bug cycle-
car

233. 1915 Stutz Bearcat racer

234. 1917 Woods hybrid

235. 1937 REO Speedwagon with Aerocartravel
trailer

236. Elton John’s 1948 Delahaye Cabriolet

237. 1956 Buick, California Highway Patrol

238. 1957 StudebakerAstral prototype, nuclear
powered

239. 1960 Taylor-Dunn Trident, built by a California farmer

240. 1963 Chrysler
Turbine

241. Green(?) Monster, 1964 land speed
record

242. Steve McQueen’s 1969 Porsche
911

243. 1970 Mercedes C111

244. Elvis Presley’s 1971 Pantera; bullet holes in
interior

245. 1974 steam-powered
Vega

246. Batmobiles and
Batcycle

247. Jack Lemmon’s “Hannibal 8” in TheGreatRace, 1965

248. Standard Red Crown
gas pump
2004
Bugatti

249. 1920s grocery
store

250. Hot Wheels Deora II, full-size “model” of the toy car

251. GMAUTOnomy fuel-cell
concept carand test
chassis

253. Seattle Seahawks injury
cart

254. Cadillac cars

255. LaBrea TarPits

259. Salinas

261. Salinas High School

263. National Steinbeck
Center

264. “Doc” Ed Ricketts artifacts

265. CanneryRowlocales

266. Section of manuscript from ThePearl

267. Monterey Bay

269. Sunning cormorants and
bathing starfish

271. Migrant shacks,
restaurant/whorehouse
in CanneryRow

272. Wing Chong’s (Lee
Chong’s Grocery in
novel), now a gift shop

273. Dr. Ricketts’ Pacific Biological lab

274. Pigeon
Point Light
Station
State
Historic
Park

278. San Francisco

279. Chinatown through bad windshield wash
job

280. The York Hotel, site of . .
.

284. Electric bus and
apartments

289. East through the California
mountains
Along the American

293. July 8 in the Pine Nut Mountains, nearCarson
City

294. Fernley Sink

295. Humboldt Range, elevation 8,000-10,000 feet

296. L is forLovelock

300. Storm overOquirrh Mountains

302. Echo Reservoir, outside Coalville

312. Dix

313. North Platte Switching Statiion

314. CarterLake, Iowa, in the sea of Omaha,
Nebraska

320. Approaching the Mississippi River, again, after5000
miles

325. Mile 5468

327. J&K Tour 06
DATE OVERNIGHT IN "ROUTE 66" SONG STOPS
June 22, 2006 Springfield, Illinois From Chicago (Normal, Ill.)
June 23, 2006 St. Louis, Missouri St. Louie
June 24, 2006 Joplin, Missouri Joplin, Missouri
June 25, 2006 Oklahoma City
June 26, 2006 looks oh, so, pretty
June 27, 2006 McLean, Texas
June 28, 2006 Santa Rosa, New Mexico Have you seen Amarillo?
June 29, 2006 Gallup, New Mexico Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona
Don't forget Winona
July 1, 2006 Kingman, Arizona Kingman
Barstow
San Bernadino
July 3, 2006
July 4, 2006 to L.A.
July 5, 2006 Salinas, California
July 6, 2006
July 7, 2006
July 8, 2006 Carson City, Nevada
July 9, 2006 Wells, Nevada
July 10, 2006 Coalville, Utah
July 11, 2006 Laramie, Wyoming
July 12, 2006 North Platte, Nebraska
July 13, 2006 Lake Carter, Iowa
July 14, 2006 Cedar Rapids, Iowa
July 15, 2006 Waupun, Wisconsin
Pasadena, California
San Francisco, California
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
June 30, 2006 Flagstaff, Arizona
July 2, 2006 San Bernadino, California