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Hi all,
I'm just starting planning our 66 trip for 2019. I'm a Brit living in Virginia, but I have a bunch of my UK friends coming over to join me, so I'm planning as early as possible, so we can get an idea on budget.
I've read most of this site already and now moving on to the forums 🙂
Laurence
Offline Hi all. My name is Stephen. I'm starting to plan my route 66 for June/July next year. Having rode 66 on a motorcycle in 04, with the mother road rally, I'm introduceing my son to the joy's of rideing the open roads of the USA. In 04 tarveled the 2,400+ mls of the road over 7 days, this time want to travel at a more leisurley pace and take in more of the sights and experiences.
As of yet we're undecided as wether to do it on motorcycles or a car, costs being major factor.
Watch this space!
Offline Hi, my name is Agustin, I´m 48, I´m from Uruguay, South America, but I´ve been living in Paraguay for the last 18 years. I´m travelling to the States next august 9th with my 2 elder sons to take them to their respective universities. One is going to Kansas state in Manhattan city, KS, and the other is going to Notre Dame at South Bend, IN.
We are flying to Chicago, Ohare, and we´ll be renting a car. We plan to drive straight into Gardner through highways, and there take the Route 66 all the way to Springfield, IL.
We are planing to sleep at the Route 66 Hotel and Conference at Springfield.
The 10th we´ll be driving from Springfield, IL to Manhattam.
latter the 15th I´ll be driving back to South Bend.
Any recommendations on the road will be highly appreciated.
Offline Hi. My husband and I want to do the Route 66 trip probably next summer. We want to take our corvette. Can you tell me how much time we should allow going out and back from Chicago? We live in Northern Indiana but will pick up 66 in Chicago it looks like. This is a bucket list trip for us so I am trying to figure it out and just what will be involved.
Offline hi mark here from Uk
planning the trip now - have booked flights and car...and got ez guide.
coming over last weekend of march...
Offline Hi everyone
Just joined and trying to figure out my way around the site.
Hoping to get some advice and tips on our upcoming trip in September, my husband and I are driving the whole of route 66 from Chicago to L.A.
Looking forward to chatting with fella route 66'ers
Lindsey xx
Offline Hello all,
My name's Richard ("Rich" is fine) and I'm originally from Aberdeen, Scotland, but now living in Bristol, England. I'm a keen biker, and a fan of Harley-Davidson motorcycles, and particularly enjoy touring with them. I've done trips around the highlands and islands of Scotland, Republic of Ireland, and into Europe (France, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway).
I will be riding Route 66 west-to-east in May 2018 with my wife (passenger) and stepfather. We've hired Harleys from Eaglerider, and planning to take a month to travel LA-Chicago, via Death Valley, Vegas, and with detours to, of course, the Grand Canyon and Monument Valley. If we can, we'll pop up to Milwaukee, WI, for the Harley-Davidson Museum (it has to be done!) We have old family friends in Oklahoma as well that we shall be visiting.
Looking forwards to exploring the forum and sharing stories with fellow travellers. If anyone lives along our route, or will be there at the same time as us, then please don't hesitate to say hi!
Best regards all,
Rich
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Hi All
Tina and Elaine here, From the North England we are planning to do Route 66 the End May 2018. Fights, and car hire and also a small number of hotels/motels along the way are booked. Spent the winter reading and planning so things seem to be coming along fine.
From Chicago to L.A. (Grand canyon and Vegas as well) hoping to navigate old route 66 as much as possible time permitting.
Any hints and tips will be appreciated.
Kind regards.
T&E
Offline Hi folks, my name is Sebastian and I come from Germany.
My wife and I will do the 66 end of may. We will start in L.A. and do the 66 kind of „reverse“ on Harleys.
We booked the bikes for 16 days and we are very excited and looking forward travelling the old Route 66 as much and close as possible.
At the end of our trip we will have 3 to 4 days for exploring Chicago.
Any recommendations are welcome and appreciated!
Kind regards from Germany,
Sebastian
Offline Hi everyone, residing in UK, Hubby and me are planning our trip for 2018 in May. We are both retiring this year, so the freedom and adventure begins! Only just starting to gather info, as planning it all ourselves. I have a question. We plan to go from Chicago to LA, so thinking to fly into Chicago, and fly back from LA. Would this be possible on one ticket? All returns are from same airport.
Offline Hi everyone!
We are planning our drive for some time in 2019 but we haven't settled on the dates just yet. Just beginning to gather information. We've got three kids, who will be 14, 11, and 5 or 6 (depending when we go). They are all road warriors and have traveled by car all over so I'm not worried about them handling the car time. I have so many questions and so many thoughts about this trip. I'd really love to drive one way and fly home but I don't even know how to do that with rental cars and that many miles and all that junk. So much research to be done!
Offline Hi Tom Tom - In May I am flying from Manchester to Chicago via Atlanta - retuning LA - Manchester via London.
Offline Hi boys and girls myself and three others are arriving on 30th of march 2018 in Chicago from Nottingham uk.We are doing the full route in a mustang convertable, taking side trips to monument valley and Vegas,then on to San Fran.All in all 21days its a tight scheduel arranged through virgin holidays any tips on things and places to see,do ect would be great.
Thanks for now John.
Offline john you need a bigger vehicle, four people stuffed in that car for 4000 miles, 21 days no place for luggage or legs. UGG!!!!
see my post "two best retired buddies" we did the route in 21 days without San Fran or Vegas and could have stayed out another week.
don't worry about looking cool in the Mustang worry about being comfortable.
Offline Hi all,
Myself (from Yorkshire, UK) & my girlfriend (from Alabama), child and friend are doing the route at the end of May this year from LA to Chicago with additional detours to the Grand Canyon, Roswell and probably some other places along the way.
Hotels are already booked and the Hire Car (SUV). Really looking forward to this trip and any information I can get from this forum would be greatly appreciated.
Offline Hey, everyone. My "Route 66 name" is "Lane Stripe" (Yeah, ha-ha!) and I'm from Bloomington, Indiana, USA --- geographical coordinates 39.1653° N, 86.5264° W. My nearest junction with Route 66 is probably Litchfield or Gillespie, Illinois, depending on which alignment you prefer.
I'm mostly an amateur railway historian and, partly through this hobby, discovered Route 66 in 1999. Another inspiration was Jack Kerouac's novel titled "On the Road." I thought it was a good book, not a great one, and in fact the book has nothing to do with Route 66, but it inspired me to make the trip. I've been down the Old Road three times: 1999, 2008, & 2011. Since then, my independent and self-directed research has made me the developer and perfecter of "The Magnificent Route 66 Road & Rail Tour" and hope to embark again in May 2018.
I'm always in search of sites of historic, artistic, cultural or natural interest and beauty, no matter where I'm headed. The only other forum I actively monitor is Yahoo!'s Route 66 E-group. I'm also on Facebook and monitor several groups there but the information scrolls by so fast it's hard to keep abreast of it all.
I hope to see you on the road this Summer
Offline Good evening all,
My husband and I have booked a 4 week route 66 trip starting 1st October. We are from Wales, United Kingdom.
We booked this trip on a whim really, without doing any prior research, and are now having a slight panic that we need to plan to make the most of the trip.
We are travelling west to east which I know isn't the 'traditional' direction but we have a holiday in Las Vegas before the trip... Anyhow I digress.. basically we've come on here for your top tips. What to see, where to go, where not to bother to go.. Also what motels must we absolutely book in advance?
I've also been thinking that we would like to stay with 'locals' on the route maybe lodging with a family for 1 or 2 nights. Has anyone done this before?
Any tips or tricks greatly appreciated.
Offline Evening all,
I have just started to plan our Route 66 trip of a life time for next spring.
We are from Essex in the UK. Looking to get as many tips and ideas as we can to build the ultimate trip. We are looking at spending between 8 - 10 weeks in total, starting in Las Vegas, then Anaheim (I'm a Disney fan) before hitting Route 66 traveling east to Chicago. Me and my partner are into the Hot Rod and car scene in the UK so anything extra we can do car related is an added bonus.
Looking forward to getting some tips.
Thanks.
Offline Hello all!
My handle is Fixnfly11.
In another life I trained as an aircraft mechanic ( hence the name) then wound up doing Air Conditioning for a living.
Living on Long Island, NY next to New York City.
I've always wanted to ride the length of Route 66 and just happened upon thus site while looking for something else. Well that's the internet for you.
I'm rebuilding my 1977 Yamaha XS750 and hope to do the trip on this trusty old steed.
Looking forward to enjoying this site and your company.
