title: Route 66 Still Kicks: Driving America's Main Street
author:  Rick Antonson 
description: Their hopes for a trip to Asia dashed, the author (president of Tourism Vancouver and a frequent traveler) and his friend Peter quickly came up with plan B: Route 66, the legendaryand now mostly bypassedhighway that spans nearly 2,500 miles from Illinois to California. The result is this lighthearted travelogueRick and Peter being a sort of road-comedy teambut the book also has its bittersweet moments, since to remember Route 66 in its heyday is to remember an America that no longer exists. The book is full of interesting or amazing historical facts (for example, Illinois was the first state to completely pave its portion of Route 66, way back in the Roaring Twenties, because Al Capone needed a good road to transport bootleg liquor). It might be a bit too artsy-fartsy to call the book a road trip into the past, but along the way, Rick and Peter do discover bits of the original Route 66, untouched by the modern world, including a smattering of people who live along the original roadway and who seem to have stepped out of the past. A winning mixture of travelogue and history. --David Pitt
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  Diary of a love story "Route 66"
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Route 66, America's first direct highway connecting 1926 Chicago to Los
  Angeles. 2448 miles of tarmac through highlands, mountains, deserts, rivers
  and canyons of eight states. Route 66, one of the lifelines of America and the
  hope of countless resettlers. A street that becomes a myth. Then in 1984 the
  out. The modern interstate is ready. Now it's faster, safer and wider in the
  West. But Route 66, "Mother Road America's", the street of nostalgia, lives
  on.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  „Come to get your kicks on route 66!“
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  -Summer 1972- My girlfriend Susanne, actually I call her "Mucki", have just left the cinema Kandelhof in Freiburg./Germany. We are still under the impressions of the movie "Easy Rider". Peter Fonda and Denis Hopper crossed America on their Harleys to find happiness and freedom. A Harley, our dream machine and America a country far, far away.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I kick our frisky Zündapp 1963. 