What Do You Think About Route 66?-- Part 3

7. Tourists on 66 don't use the original alignments all the time for fear of getting lost, time delays, traffic, road conditions. Give yourself more time than you plan.


8. Travelers also use the interstate to avoid traffic, make up for lost time and avoid boring stretches of the road.

9. Asked to give one word to sum up their trip, travelers replied with hectic, challenging, hot, long, frustrating, fun and different.

MY COMMENTS ON THESE:

7. More would use original alignments if there is good signage which is a big problem once you get west of Kansas. As far as traffic, most of my problems have been with farm machinery on the road, but they are easy to pass.

8. I use interstates from time to time. They are good to make up time. For some reason, whenever we're on 66, we lose gobs of time. I think it might be a watch thing. I also use the interstate instead of the frightening part of Chicago, and, of course, Bloomington-Normal, the towns that have forgotten about their Route 66 heritage. Very little to see. Too bad B-N can't be more like Lincoln to their north.

Boring stretches? Where? Well, maybe Illinois from Springfield to Litchfield.

9. Some of these bode well for 66, others not so good. I'd have a real big problem figuring out one word for the road. Perhaps more-fun-than-a-barrel-of-monkeys, wait, that's more than one word.

Gettin' My Kicks. --RoadDog