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Route 66 Road Trip
By Marlon Burrows

Leave the interstate behind and discover America
with the classic road trip down Route 66.
Running from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri,
Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona,
and California, before ending in Los Angeles for a
total of 2,448 miles (3,940 km), this legendary
American road passes through the heart of the
United States on a trip that takes in some of the
countries most archetypal roadside scenes. If
your looking for vintage mom ‘n’ pop diners,
neon signs, funky roadside attractions, and
stunning natural beauty, as the song says you’ll
be sure to “get your kicks on Route 66”.

A road trip down Route 66 tells a compelling
story of not only America’s historical move West,
but of the country’s culture itself. Before it was
called Route 66 this corridor was one of Americas
first transcontinental highways. For three
decades before and after World War II, Route 66
earned the title “Main Street of America” as it
wound through small towns across the Midwest
and Southwest, lined by hundreds of cafés,
motels, gas stations, and tourist attractions.
During the Great Depression, hundreds of
thousands of farm families, displaced from the
Dust Bowl, made their way west along Route 66
to California, following “the Mother Road”. After
World War II, many thousands more expressed
their upward mobility by leaving the industrial
East, bound for good jobs in the suburban idyll
of Southern California—again following Route 66,
which came to embody the demographic shift
from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt.

Route 66 passes through a marvelous cross-
section of American scenes, from the gritty
streets of St. Louis and Chicago, past the Grand
Canyon and the Native American communities of
the desert Southwest to the golden sands and
sunshine of Los Angeles. Whether you are
motivated by an interest in its history, feel a
nostalgic yearning for the good old days the
route has come to represent, or simply want to
experience firsthand the amazing diversity of
people and landscapes that line its path, Route
66 offers an unforgettable journey into America,
then and now.

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