114 Route 66: History, Attractions, & Road Trip Essentials | Jim Hinckley
Curiosityness
Travis DeRose
4.8 • 566 Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
We're finally doing the full Route 66 — 28 days in the RV from Chicago to LA! So, of course, I had to get the full breakdown on the history of Route 66, the must-see attractions, and what essentials we need to make the trip.
To get the complete lowdown, I'm joined by Route 66 Author, Tour Guide, and Advocate, Jim Hinkley!
Tune in to learn…
-Why Route 66 exists,
-How Route 66 transformed from a road to an American icon,
-About the must-see attractions,
-What Route 66 resources, apps, and books are essential for your trip,
-What vehicle is the best for traveling Route 66,
-& so much more!
Visit https://jimhinckleysamerica.com/ and find Jim on Facebook @JimHinckleysAmerica for more Route 66 & travel info from Jim Hinckley.
This is the beginning of a short Route 66 series I'll be doing for the podcast.
Check out http://visiting66.com to follow along with our trip, watch tours of the attractions we visit, and see more interviews with folks who are quintessentially Route 66!
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| 0:00.0 | A spontaneous and unrehearsed interview. |
| 0:08.2 | Well, hello, and welcome to the 114th episode of Curiosityness. |
| 0:14.5 | I'm Travis DeRose, the host, and here's a deal. |
| 0:18.5 | Route 66. It's happening. |
| 0:20.7 | We're finally doing the full Route 66 from Chicago to |
| 0:25.1 | L.A. We're going east to west. We're heading westernly on Route 66. Have kind of done stuff |
| 0:33.5 | before on the West Coast, but never really done the full thing. We're doing the whole trip in the RV for a month. So, you know, I'm doing a whole Route 66 series on this. |
| 0:43.9 | I got it. I'm so excited for all this. I've been immersing myself in the Route 66 world for |
| 0:51.0 | a while now. But here's the deal. Uh, you can check out curiosityanness.com |
| 0:57.7 | slash root 66 or or visiting 66.com. I got a URL and that'll redirect to curiosity. |
| 1:05.2 | Ness. Okay. So go to visiting 66.com. I'll have a link to it in the description. But there's |
| 1:10.6 | going to be tours and kind of visiting videos from all the stops and attractions |
| 1:15.6 | and points of interest along Route 66. |
| 1:18.2 | I'm going to be interviewing the people who are on Route 66 and, you know, that all that make |
| 1:23.1 | it so special and all that stuff. |
| 1:24.4 | So I'm so excited for that. |
| 1:25.7 | So visit Visiting66.com to see all that. I'm also going to have like a Google map that I've saved of basically all the points of interest. They're going to be all saved on there. So if you're going to do your own tour, you can go and check that stuff out and see hours when they're open, how to get there, everything like that um i'm just going to have a ton of stuff |
| 1:45.8 | on there there's going to be like we're going to look at where all the cars movie inspiration stuff |
| 1:50.4 | come came from there's going to be the interviews from the route 66 associations from different states |
| 1:55.9 | i got kansas oklahoma and california so just a ton good stuff. If you're taking a Route 66 trip, |
| 2:01.9 | or if you're just interested in Route 66, you can follow along with our trip. We're doing a 30 day, |
| 2:07.9 | 30 days on Route 66. You believe it. We're going to see everything, hopefully, unless things go bad, |
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