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Route 66 Adventure Handbook (Adventure Pack)

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We traveled the Route in 2004. I saw this book a couple times, but didn't buy it until New Mexico (I thought we had plenty of Route 66 guides)...kicked myself for not getting it earlier all the way to LA. Definitely buy this before you go and use it for helping to set up your itinerary. It has all of the essential stops, and you can tell it's written from the heart.

I used the first edition of this book last year on my Route 66 trip (this edition came out only a week after I had left!). I liked it so much that I bought the new edition and gave the old one to a friend.

Route 66 Adventure Handbook is both comprehensive and easy to use. I had no trouble following along while on the road - not once did I get lost. Drew really knows his stuff and very clearly points out the attractions that you don't want to miss. Also, I highly recommend reading this cover to cover before you even get in the car. It really helped me decide ahead of time what I wanted to see in the time I had. I'll most definitely use it again on my next trip!

As a veteran traveler of backroads America, I own dozens of books and videos on Route 66, but if I could keep only one, this would have to be it. No other guide comes anywhere close to the wealth of fascinating information available here. Just open the Adventure Handbook to ANY PAGE and you'll want to jump into your car and go exploring RIGHT NOW!

With this guide you won't miss ANYthing -- history, people, museums, roadside attractions, holes in the ground, you-name-it. In fact, if you'll excuse me -- I think I need to go Route 66-ing right now -- see you on the Road!

This book is absolutely the best resource for anyone looking to explore the Mother Road! I found it at the Midway Cafe in Texas (the halfway point) and it was EXACTLY what I was looking for. Filled with interesting artifacts, side trips, factoids and fun stops, this guide to Route 66 is just what any first-timer or veteran traveler of America's lost Americana needs. I just wish that I had found it before setting out to California. But, there's always the next time. Drew helped me to find some very interesting sights along the way and the trip was absolutely the coolest nine days I have ever spent in a car or by myself!
Thanks, Drew!!!

Drew's book was gifted to me. I followed the map as I read through and couldn't put the book down. It was loaded with interesting information: history, sights, adventurous side trips, museums, famous and forgotten quaint towns and sites.
The book is, indeed, like a co-pilot in your pocket. It guides the traveller off the beaten track to explore nature, beautiful sights, and mysteries of the past. The colorful photos add interest and lure one to plan ahead, to include Route 66 in ones travels. It sounds like a place for family vacations--not just once, but many times to drink in all the sights.
I commend Drew on an excellent book.

This book is fantastic. It's like having Drew sitting next to you on the ride, pointing out sites of interest, giving you bits of history about each and every town you pass along the entire length of Route 66.

If you have a "navigator" with you, have them read each entry as you hit the towns listed... it will make the trip that much more interesting. Better yet, get the 1946 Jack Rittenhouse book (A Guide Book to Highway 66), and read the "then and now" listings to really get a feel for what you're seeing, and what you would have seen then. (Sometimes, the two are the same!)

Team this book with "Route 66: EZ66 Guide for Travelers", and you've got an unbeatable combination for any Route 66 trip, one state or the entire thing.

If you want to have a great Route 66 trip, you only need three books:

Jerry McClanahan - Route 66: EZ66 Guide for Travelers
Drew Knowles - Route 66 Adventure Handbook
Jack Rittenhouse - A Guide Book to Highway 66 (1946)

For those doing Oklahoma, the complete-to-the-last-inch "Oklahoma Route 66" by Jim Ross is also highly recommended. It details stuff that other books just couldn't. It's SO complete, that the OK Highway Dept website uses part of it for their Route 66 section. (All these books are available on Amazon.com)

There you have it. Arm yourself, and get out there and do Route 66! It will be an experience you'll never forget.

It was packed with useful information from accomodation to site seeing trips and insiteful information on Route 66 itself.

I would recommend this book to anyone planning on taking this trip of a lifetime!

Even if I can't do the drive right now, this book is an inspiration towards that SOMEDAY when I get in the car and go.

My husband and I have always dreamed of a trip on rt.66 I have Drew Knowles rt. 66 book. When the day comes we can finially go this book will be this book will be a very helpful guide. Can't wait!!

We recently traveled several hundred miles along Route 66 and it was great to have this book as a reference. It lists every little place that ever once existed. We read each entry as we drove east to west through Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. It was easy to follow and fun to spot the things we most likely would have missed without having Drew's information with us - sections of the road that still exist, old signs and buildings as well as those places still thriving and rebuilding. Thanks for a wonderful guide!