Our October Route 66 Trip

[JohnS48plm]

In October my wife Mary and I along with our friends Don and Jane Palmer from Connecticut went on a trip on Route 66. We left on October 5 with our 1965 Plymouth Barracuda and the Palmers 1965 Dodge Dart both with slant six automatics. We saw a lot of great sites like the Grand Canyon, Gateway Arch, and the Petrified Forest. It took 15 days to get to Santa Monica, California from Battle Creek Michigan. We then drove up the Pacific Coast Highway to San Francisco and back to Michigan on I-80. The Palmers drove back across the south and up the east coast to Connecticut.

It was 3023 miles from Battle Creek MI to Santa Monica CA and 5889 miles for the entire trip. We went through 14 states, used 280 gallons of gas and averaged 21 mpg driving 65-70 mph with the air on quite often in the south.

JohnS  

[rb1949]

Great adventure. Classic cars and a classic route.

[40plyrod]

Very cool, but you must have more pictures.

[Flatie46]

That's awesome! A lot of people talk about trip's like this, most never actually make it happen. Love the cars!

[pflaming]

Summer of 2018, our daughter and son in law are flying to the left coast, then drive 'Phoenix' back to Indianapolis, IN. Mom and I will caravan with them. Our route, Route  66 as many non I State highways as possible.  So got two years to trick out this truck. I drive it daily now, gaining confidence each time out.  With two old cars, you must have had some very interesting conversations along the way.  Cudos! 

[JohnS48plm]

I have more pictures but I don't know how to downsize them. I get a message when I try to put them on here that I've used all of my space.

[rb1949]

On your computer use the simple program "Paint". Open image, resize it to 35% of original, save under a new name. Quick n' easy.

[RobertKB]

Thanks for posting. Great trip. That's what old cars are for........driving. I use the free Photobucket which automatically downsizes. I can post any number of pictures after that. 

[JohnS48plm]

The new computer doesn't have the paint program. I may have to fire up the notebook to resize or find my old photobucket password.

[rb1949]

It's there, just hiding. Ways to find it: http://www.digitalcitizen.life/how-work-new-paint

Once open, put a shortcut on the desktop. Go play.

[JohnS48plm]

The Palmers have pictures on plymouthcarclub.com . It's the Colonial Region of the Plymouth Club website.

[JohnS48plm]

here are a couple of more pictures

[blue p15]

Congratulations on a great trip!  looking forward to more pictures!

[55 Fargo]

NICE

[JohnS48plm]

A couple more

[rb1949]

Did you have to get a "modern" map showing how to take Rt66? Hear a lot of roads are unmarked.

[Dan Hiebert]

Awesome trip!  Thanks for sharing with us.

[JohnS48plm]

There are lots of books and maps of Route 66. The roads are marked in most states. So go to your local library or bookstore. AAA even had a special map of Route 66.