In search of Route 66 - the trip West

[RDMcG]

*Al* said:

Firstly thanks for sharing that! Fantastic road trip, i've been to Oz and i now need to go stateside and drive some or all of route 66. Moodly looking skies in the last few pics, did it rain?

Very little rain, but we hit a dust storm first night.......beautiful now. Will pos more as things develop this week

[JonnyFive]

Excellent thread, OP! Thanks for posting

[Pesty]

Fantstic.

Thanks

[AV12]

Thank you RD. That's why I love the States.

Love the pictures and the write up, but snake training is a new one on me, although I do know the US is overlooked when it comes to it's snake population...

I think I read that there 53 different species in N. Carolina alone

But great stuff, done a bit of travelling around Utah and Arizona and I fancy a trip to a warplane graveyard!

Good stuff!

[RDMcG]

AV12 said:

Thank you RD. That's why I love the States.

Love the pictures and the write up, but snake training is a new one on me, although I do know the US is overlooked when it comes to it's snake population...

I think I read that there 53 different species in N. Carolina alone

But great stuff, done a bit of travelling around Utah and Arizona and I fancy a trip to a warplane graveyard!

Good stuff!

I will do the warplane stuff as its own thread and will link here. Off to do some offroading today. Its muddy and wet today, unusually. Should be fun

[PIGINAWIG]

Epic trip - I did a fair few of those routes a couple of years ago - you did well to continue through Flagstaff, the trains are the noisest bastids at 2am, honking like crazy. Sedona is rather beautiful eh?

Many thanks for sharing - photos are great. May have to pop over and stay with you for 30/40 years....

[FisiP1]

Awesome, I should have taken my chance to do this while my GT500 was still in the states, now I have to wait 2 and a half years until I hit 25 for sane vehicle rental rates.

[BOBTEE]

I drove 66 by myself in 2009 so I enjoyed your story as I've been to many of the places you've pictured!

I'd recommend it highly to all of you, get out there and do it!

[RDMcG]

Here is a link to a subtopic...took the Cayenne out in the desert yesterday.........

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[clonmult]

Bungleaio said:

I would love to do something like this.

Thanks for taking the time to post the pictures.

+1

I'm reckoning that something like this should be on the cards in a few years time, when my oldest (currently 10) is at an age to hopefully be able to appreciate it.

[RDMcG]

clonmult said:

+1

I'm reckoning that something like this should be on the cards in a few years time, when my oldest (currently 10) is at an age to hopefully be able to appreciate it.

Research pays off. I got a series of books on Route 66, and also a set of maps by state showing all of the important remaining sections , with exit instructions and a description of each site. You would never find them yourself, and it helps if you are time constrained to choose the particular places that interest you. I barely scratched the surface, and missed some places that I really wanted to see. Next time.

Edited by RDMcG on Tuesday 8th November 12:27

[kwakus]

That sounds like an epic trip, good to see you using the Cayenne off road too. The whole trip sounds like what dreams are made of.

[RDMcG]

A few pics from Az. Its has developed a lot since I started coming here in the eighties:

This is Wickenburg, now...and an old pic I took:





Tubac, South of Tucson was originally quite a nice old place but now extensively developed. Still, saw a couple of nice cars...













while Scottsdale is hugely changed:



Sill AZ has the greatest skycapes

[mig25_foxbat2003]

Amazing thread and great pics - I'm off to read the aircraft ones now!

[RDMcG]

mig25_foxbat2003 said:

Amazing thread and great pics - I'm off to read the aircraft ones now!

Davis Monthan was just stunning

[XitUp]

RDMcG said:

Door to door the trip was 2419 miles. We averaged 11.2mpg, and the only problem was the brake controlled occasional grabbing the brakes, which has to be looked at here.

Ouch.
Was the return trip without the trailer? Be interesting to see how much that brought your mpg down by.

Looks like a great trip. My girlfriend and I are planning a US road trip in a few years time.

When I was younger we had a family holiday in the states. My dad drove from my grandfathers house in Titusville PA (first place oil was ever drilled for) to my uncles in Seattle in about three days.

[Glade]

Looks great!

I visited Cleveland, Ohio earlier this year. I was amazed at the scale of the roads (so wide) and how all the Motels have really big big signs on posts, extending so high in the air!

[kamilb1998]

Fantastic trip, excellent photos! Thanks for posting!

[RDMcG]

XitUp said:

Ouch.
Was the return trip without the trailer? Be interesting to see how much that brought your mpg down by.

Looks like a great trip. My girlfriend and I are planning a US road trip in a few years time.

When I was younger we had a family holiday in the states. My dad drove from my grandfathers house in Titusville PA (first place oil was ever drilled for) to my uncles in Seattle in about three days.

I think I posted it on the return thread, but as I recall it was about 19.6. However, a lot of travel was very fast with a few stretches at 130 leptons....

[VTECBOY]

Bump! Made me really appreciate America! Love