Looking for Route 66?
Mention Route 66 & it brings to mind songs & the notion of a road trip in a classic American car with roof down & music blaring. Or maybe blasting about on some massive motorbike like a Harley or similar. It was a slightly different experience in the van especially as nowadays much of the old route has been subsumed into modern highways.
It is still possibly to find sections of the original road & places on it but the surfaces can be a bit rough. The lack of a cohesive road surface in some places is certainly not for the feint hearted. Still we were feeling brave & managed to go along at least one or two sections & found some odd places to visit.
A Quick Snack
One of the stops when in this neck of the woods is to visit the infamous Road Kill Cafe. Where you purportedly can eat something that has been run over on the road.
I suspect that nowadays that would fall foul of some law. While the names were catchy the food was really just nicely cooked and presented food that has been no where near the tarmac outside.
Oatman & the Donkeys
Still we had a nice meal there & a welcome break in the day as we drove to Oatman. This really was a small & slightly eccentric place. For starters the buildings looked like they were part of a wild west set except they were really shops & cafes. The second disconcerting thing was the number of donkeys that were roaming around & incredibly difficult to get past if they decided to just stop in the middle of the road.
From Oatman it was a bit of a race to make it back onto the new road as the old roads were in such poor shape in places its not the sort of place to find yourself in the dark. The sides of the roads in places just had eroded away & the drop would have been enough to topple a van.
We reached the main road as the sun was setting & headed for the overnight stop as the next day we were heading for the Grand Canyon & Hoover Dam
