Category Archives: Route 66

Holidays

Kingman to Seligman.

Kingman to Seligman.

Leaving late in the day, due to spending our time in Golden Valley we headed into Seligman just before dark. After missing dinner we went for a much earned meal at the RoadKill Cafe, and if you ever passing by, you must stop in for a drink and some food we highly recommend it… The [...]

Mountain Pass

Mountain Pass

From Oatman to Kingman is about 29 miles across the mountains on the 66, which also takes you through Golden Valley the road was amazing. It is said that in the early days of automobiles that they had to go through the mountains in reverse as the mountain roads were too steep to go up [...]

Needles to Kingman route 66

Needles to Kingman route 66

Well after an early start we headed east towards Kingman. We crossed the Colorado river and ventured into Topuck then into Oatman, a town well known for its gold… And what a gem it is, if you love to visit the days of the wild west, you wont be disappointed we spent a few hours [...]

Valentines Day

Valentines Day

The day was most romantic… I had a beautiful card from my number one valentine After a morning swim we packed our bags after a lovely 4 night stay in Hesperia, and we headed east on the 66. We passed through Barstow, and stopped off at Calico for a romantic day. Then we went onto [...]

11th of Feb Return to the 66

11th of Feb Return to the 66

After leaving our Hotel, we set off to Santa Monica Pier to find the west end of 66, After a while searching for a sign we gave up, and started our hectic ride up Santa Monica Boulevard, then Sunset Boulevard, and the traffic was painfully slow, I for one did one enjoy the busy traffic [...]

Universal Studio Tours

Universal Studio Tours

Our second day at LA we went to universal Studios. which was almost memorable day indeed. I have to admit after being lucky enough to be in LA with a movie premier on, I was star struck and who should I see, none other than the Beautiful ‘Eva Longoria‘, traveling behind us on her way [...]

LA & Hugh

LA & Hugh

Today we left the beautiful San Diego for the Limelight & Chaos of Los Angeles. Finding our Hotel was easy thanks to the Sat Nav, what an amazing piece of technology…. wicked leaves you stress free for your journey… Well after we settled into our hotel we walked for 5 minutes and we were on [...]

“Crusers cafe”

For our last night on the 66 we ate here, for a small town this place was bussin with activity and the food was excellent and there was plenty of it… Beer was excellent too. And the place has plenty of kicks on the route 66. Not to be missed full of memorabilia. So until [...]

The Christmas tree at Williams Route 66

The Christmas tree at Williams Route 66

After making our descission to leave for San Diego in the morning this is the first and last Christmas tree will see on the Historic 66, so until january next year when we resume our journey… Happy Christmas to our family & friends, and we look forward to coming home and celebrating with you at [...]

Christmas has come to Town

Christmas has come to Town

After an amazing day out we arrived back in Williams and all the Christmas lights were on, this was so cool to see, and everyone was full of festive spirit. My Grandad would have enjoyed this day! Hello grandad I took this for you Nan, missin you lots.. xx This was Thanks Giving weeked a [...]