Home to Texas—with Mother Road memories
ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART THE LAST We’re often prompted by leisure-travel marketers to think of our journeys as “making memories,” and...
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Barbara Brannon
Sep 195 min read
California dreamin’ and driving
ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 8 In the American consciousness, California occupies a fabled throne: lodestone of the Golden West, goal of the...
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Barbara Brannon
Sep 194 min read
Animals all across Arizona
ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 7, ARIZONA Arriving at the eastern edge of Arizona at dusk means two things: that the 149 miles between here...
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Barbara Brannon
Sep 196 min read
Route 66 through New Mexico: Light across the high desert
ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 6 New Mexico likes to call itself the Land of Enchantment. And so it is, quite often, for their next-door neighbors...
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Barbara Brannon
Sep 186 min read
Back in Texas—but not home yet
ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 6 Crossing the state line westbound from Oklahoma brings us into familiar territory—not just because it’s the state...
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Barbara Brannon
Sep 186 min read
Oklahoma, green hills to Panhandle
ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 4 Oklahoma has more drivable miles of Route 66 than any other state. And “drivable,” as twenty-first-century...
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Barbara Brannon
Aug 164 min read
Not in Kansas anymore? Think again
ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 4 Of the eight states through which Route 66 once passed —and its historic remnants still do—Kansas claims the...
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Barbara Brannon
Aug 166 min read
Show me “MO” of Missouri
ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 3 South of Edwardsville, Illinois, in search of the turnoff for Chain of Rocks Road, we wound up instead swept...
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Barbara Brannon
Aug 153 min read
Route 66 in the Land of Lincoln
ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 2 “Route 66 has fueled America’s imagination, popular culture, and passion for the open road for nearly a century....
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Barbara Brannon
Aug 154 min read
In search of the Mother Road
ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 1 It’s rare that local newspaper editors —especially ones like us, who have an active stake in hometown...
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Barbara Brannon
Jun 302 min read
Ride along with The Transcendent Traveler
I first tried out this newfangled thing called blogging in June 2003, several years after the term "weblog" was coined. Venturing out on...
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