Route 66

Bob, Karon and Holland follow the Mother Road from Chicago to Los Angeles, detouring to Las Vegas and finishing the trip in San Francisco.

Plenty of planning went into this trip. Flights were booked – in to Chicago and out from San Francisco, a hire car, accommodation along the way and tickets/bookings for some of the attractions. It was a pretty full itinerary but we still had time to explore.

Back on the old road

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Much of the original R66 lies under the Interstate, but further on it reappeared and we headed along it for a while. Glad to be in a 4x4 with decent tyres. We passed several MVPs with flats on the rougher sections. At one point a huge tarantula crossed the road in front of us.