One more time...

Yup, our plans have changed one more time. Last May we announced that we were moving the trip to the fall of 2012 because of Stu's twin granddaughters high school graduation. That date change became even more important when we learned that Stu would be getting both knees replaced in early April 2012.

Fast forward to now....Stu's youngest daughter will be getting married in late October 2012. Soooooo, once again we delay our Route 66 trip. Current plans are for fall of 2013...and I'll be 66 so it will be fun to ride Rt 66 then. LOL! Gotta have something to look forward to.

By then Stu may have upgraded to a 2012 Tri-Glide, I'll probably still be on my SuperLow. We continue to fine tune what we will need for the trip. We recently joined a travel club that might make it more cost effective to hotel more than camp. That said, we will do some camping and we still plan to take Sadie along.

We also still plan to take our time, wander as desired, sticking to the route but with detours to see interesting sights. We have run across two different tour groups for riding the route but don't think that really suits us.

So hope you will continue to monitor our progress and we will try to blog more than twice a year as we prepare. LOL!

Ride safe,
Stu and Donna

The 'guardian angel' of Route 66

They call him many things: The Father of the Mother Road. The Guardian Angel of Route 66. Sometimes, simply, The Ambassador.

His story has been related in travel guides, even on a website for a Route 66 association in the Czech Republic. He and his town were the inspiration for the animated film "Cars," but he has inspired many others, too, with a vigor that age hasn't diminished — a passion for the road he grew up on, and old with.

Read the full article...

Read about our visit to Seligman...

Ride safe,
Stu and Donna

When will we go?

We had originally intended to ride Route 66 in May of this year. That changed when we brought Sadie into our home and we realized that she needed to be a little older. So we moved the date out to May of 2012.

Once again, it looks like the date will change. Stu's twin granddaughters will be graduating high school in May/June 2012. He needs to be there....these two were the apple of his and his late wife's eye, Lin's youngest grandbabies.

Soooooo, looks like we will now do Route 66 in Sept/Oct of 2012. This will be a good thing...why? Consider the recent weather...all the tornadoes in the midwest and south. Turns out that the month of May has the highest number of tornadoes. Gulp....

The next step will be making the decision on whether we travel from east to west as originally planned or go west to east. We will be in Arizona this winter and would love to do as we did over a year ago....visit UT, WY and MT in the late spring/early summer. But by early September we need to have the RV parked in a safe, secure and cost effective spot for the time we are gone. Obviously, on our own land in TN would be perfect.

So, do we not enjoy the other states and head back east? Do we enjoy them and make a mad dash back east? Do we try to find a place to park not too far from the Los Angeles/Santa Monica area and do the route in reverse? So many questions and decisions....but fortunately, there is still a lot of time to make the decision!

We did luck out and get a copy of Microsoft Streets and Trips 2011 on sale recently, actually currently $10 less than the 2010 version.

We also recently updated our Gear List. At some point we'll be adding a riding gear/clothes list as well.

We will be picking up BRAT 2 in mid-June. Then we need to get our old BRAT Rack from VA where it's stored at a friend's house. Some adjustments need to be made to it, that's Stu's area of expertise....I'll just keep blogging. LOL!

Ride safe,
Stu and Donna