Get your Kicks on Route 66
The Road Wanderer
Special Thanks: It took only four years, two cars, 33.75 thermoses of coffee, untold Snicker bars, 457 Tums, and 4566 photographs to complete this cyber tour of Route 66! What started out as a photographic journey to capture images along what I thought was a vanished road in Arizona and California expanded to encompass all of Route 66. What I found along the way has changed my life forever. Though Route 66 is no longer a US highway, it is far from being the lost and vanished road I once imagined it was. Route 66 is alive today and along her winding cracked pavement I discovered America. It was the America of my parents and grandparents, an America that I thought had been lost to us. The people of the Mother Road proved otherwise. It's the people of Route 66, those that live, work and play along her corridor today that keep her alive. To those people I want to say thank you. None of this would have been possible without the help of you - the special people I met along the way. To the business people on Route 66 trying to eke out a living away from the Interstate, the historians, the authors and artists who can see the bigger picture, dedicated volunteers and preservationists that strive to preserve this part of America for our children, the Route 66 State Associations and Organizations who know that to lose Route 66 would be to lose a part of our American soul, and above all, you road wanderers that take the path less traveled and know that it's not the destination but the journey that counts - I owe all of you more than you could possibly know. Once you were strangers on a highway and the Mother Road brought us together as friends. To you then and all Road Wanderers I dedicate these pages. God Bless You All!
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