{"id":962,"date":"2012-09-10T19:11:06","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T02:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel\/?p=962"},"modified":"2016-08-28T09:37:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T16:37:27","slug":"september-10-route-66-now-mostly-i-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/2012\/09\/10\/september-10-route-66-now-mostly-i-40\/","title":{"rendered":"September 10: Historic Route 66 (Now Mostly I-40)"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Cloudscapes<\/a>
Cloudscapes Over I-40<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mile 7530 – Williams, Arizona<\/strong>, gateway to Grand Canyon National Park.\u00a0 We started off in Barstow, a town that\u00a0has seen better days and even those days were probably not that good.\u00a0 We had one of our worst meals of the trip last night.\u00a0 The\u00a0hotel was nestled in between I-40 and a very busy train track.\u00a0\u00a0The air conditioner was at least as useful overpowering the noise from outside as in cooling our room.\u00a0 But Barstow is mentioned in the song “Get Your Kicks on Route 66”.<\/p>\n

Quiz of the Day: Who wrote that song?\u00a0\u00a0You can easily look it up on the Internet (I did), but if anyone actually knows that without cheating, put in a comment.\u00a0 Your reward will be that we will approve your comment.\u00a0 If we later find out you cheated, you will get a dishonorable mention in our posts.<\/p>\n

We drove through the Mojave desert in the morning.\u00a0 It was not as hot as the day before.\u00a0 By the time we got to Kingman, we discovered from the local visitor center that we had just whizzed by another Aunt Esther postcard scene, so we backtracked on the old Route 66 from Kingman towards Oatman and back.\u00a0 It was well worth it.\u00a0 P.J. will have the pictures to prove it.<\/p>\n

Back on I-40 from Kingman, the road went up-and-up-and-up and the temperature went down-and-down from the nineties to the sixties.\u00a0 We had rain and sun with spectacular scenic thunderstorm skies.\u00a0 We are now in Williams on Route 66.\u00a0 Williams is not mentioned in the song, but it is a lot nicer than Barstow.<\/p>\n

\"Prius<\/a>
Our Prius in the Mojave Desert<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Historic<\/a>
Historic Route 66 Sign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Along<\/a>
Along Route 66<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Museum<\/a>
Route 66 Museum Store at Cool Springs<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Old<\/a>
Old Roadster For Sale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Old<\/a>
Old Truck on Route 66<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Vintage Postcard Project:<\/strong> September 10: Route 66, Arizona<\/a><\/p>\n

[Photographs © 2012 P.J. Gardner. All Rights Reserved.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mile 7530 – Williams, Arizona, gateway to Grand Canyon National Park.\u00a0 We started off in Barstow, a town that\u00a0has seen better days and even those days were probably not that good.\u00a0 We had one of our worst meals of the trip last night.\u00a0 The\u00a0hotel was nestled in between I-40 and a very busy train track.\u00a0\u00a0The … Continue reading “September 10: Historic Route 66 (Now Mostly I-40)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arjan","category-pj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=962"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2034,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/962\/revisions\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pjgardner.com\/travel1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}