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Route 66: A Guidebook to the Mother Road

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Memo to anyone planning to drive Route 66: YOU NEED THIS BOOK.

Of all the Route 66 titles on the market, this is the only one to provide detailed, turn-by-turn directions for following the Mother Road from Chicago to Los Angeles. The lively text supplies helpful background on Route 66 towns and identifies local landmarks along the way, while more than 100 color photos offer a running visual commentary.

Following the authors' directions, I've driven Route 66 from end to end twice without getting lost. The book also allowed me to locate and follow long-bypassed sections of 66 which other authors ignore. I can't recommend this book highly enough.

I didn't know anything about Route 66 when Amanda and I left Chicago bound for Las Vegas. This book was very informative and the precise driving directions were a real help. Rt. 66 CANNOT be traveled without a guidebook of this type.

The book led us to all sorts of interesting people and places. We stopped and chatted with Lucille Harmon in Hydro, OK and Juan Delgado at the Sno-Cap in Seligman, AZ. These were places that I would have never known about were it not for this book. (12/7/2004: God rest their souls.)

If you choose to travel Rt. 66, be sure to have this book and stick to the two-lane original road all the way.

This book spoon feeds the directions to you. It points out the road, the old buildings, the area radio stations, the people who have been on Route 66 for years, how to contact the State Route 66 Associations and more. I'm telling ya, you'll get lost without it!

This book is excellent but its difficult to vision driving from west to east because the book is written mile per mile from the east, like it should. I wish they could have written notes for traveling in the other direction. The pictures are great and lots of details.

Moore still has the best book for those who want to retrace the Mother Road (or as much as is possible today). Wallis' book is hte best for those who want to soak up the atmosphere. I have followed Moore's directions in both Texas and Oklahoma nad have never gotten lost or stuck. I would highly recommend this as a must have for any Mother Road aficionado.

I'm a professional photographer and sometimes writer, and quite jealous of what I found in this book! When I was 13 in 1959, my folks and brother and I traveled the entire length of "The Mother Road" when we left our home in Chicago to move to the West Coast. We took over 3 weeks to do it, with dad promising us the vacation of a lifetime. It was, and this book really brought it all back for me. The photography is outstanding, and coupled with the detailed writing,it makes for some dandy imagery.

The layout of the book makes it easy to navigate for a serious explorer, fun to breeze through for the rest of us, and a visual knockout. It's hard to believe the attention to detail - Moore and company mapped the entire current route, giving us modern day travelers a mile by mile narrative of who's who, what's to see, where to eat, and plenty of fun and interesting neon history along the way.

I'm not a "roadie," but this book sure brought back some fun memories and gave me an itch to head west again!

Bob Moore has created a book that makes it easy to follow the difficult (and sometimes lost) twists and turns of the former Route 66. The inclusion of current and former landmarks is most informative and will again serve as the guide for our family's cross-country excursion. The only problem with this book is that it is so interesting you sometimes forget to look at the road, even though that is why you made the trip

We don't have roads like this in the UK; somehow, travelling on what was once the Great North Road between London and Edinburgh (now snappily titled the A1) just doesn't have the same romance. Even many of the roads built by the Romans have disappeared altogether or under blacktop.

I bought this book after seeing it as part of the title illustration to an article about Route 66 in the English magazine "Classic & Sportscar". A friend had also stayed at the wigwam motel while working in the States last year.

The words in this book, and especially the evocative pictures, have inspired me to travel Route 66 myself, all the way from Lakeshore Drive to Santa Monica!

Can I rent a 'Vette?