route 66

route 66
williams az an old route 66 town

following the 66!

not like the massive highways

at hackberry general store

lots of old cars at hackberry

lots of memorabilia

more old cars

the general store, nice corvette

Saturday 30th April 2011.

Today was just a nice two or three hour drive from Flagstaff to Kingman. Our first stop was Williams which is a town that route 66 passed through up until October 13th 1984, this was the last town to be bypassed from the old 'mother road.' They have got lots of shops that make tribute to the famous route and it was nice to just have walk around. From there we travelled along the I40 until we reached exit 139. From there we turned off and followed the original longest remaining section of the 66. It was a piece of road about 150km long which also gave you views of the older sections of the route visible on the sides of the road. Some of the realignments from the 1920's and 30's left sections which are now on private property with bitumen still visible.

We continued on to the Hackberry General store where we stopped for a drink. The owner of the store has a red Corvette parked in the front which belonged to his father. The corvette is still driven everyday and the guys father was the second owner.

Arrived at Kingman in good time and checked into the motel. We now are only about 200kms from Las Vegas. We are going to check out the Route 66 museum at Kingman and the Hoover Dam along the way.