Road trips have long been associated with freedom. The anything-can-happeness of the open road has inspired everything from Jack Kerouac’s On the Road to National Lampoon’s Vacation. Yet, as freeing as the road should be, road trips often fail to meet their purpose. Road trippers overschedule and underexplore. They aim for destinations, instead of fully […]
Route 66 is such a fabled road of the past, it often seems like it exists out of the modern world. But the truth is the old route is still very much present in both populated and less-populated areas of the country. When you drive the old Mother Road today, you’ll pass through urban jungles
Finding the old Route 66 buried under the roads that took its place can be difficult. Only two of the eight states Route 66 once passed through (and still passes through in a different way) provide detailed maps of the once-route. In other states, Route 66 has been all but vacated, either written over entirely
Route 66 isn’t the road it once was. It has been eclipsed as a cross-country thruway by a series of interstates, the main one Interstate-40, which was built directly over Route 66 much of the way and shares more than 1,300 miles of generalized route with the historic route. The 1,200 miles left of the
Visiting Los Angeles by car will provide you with a car experience unlike any place else in the U.S. That’s a good or bad thing, depending on how much you want to experience gridlock in its highest, most brutal form. You’ve probably encountered traffic on the roads in American cities, but it’s hard to encounter
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