I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo

oh no

amateur traveler episode 648. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about caverns, a petrified forest,

and diners, wigwam motels, the Disney movie Cars, and the world's second largest rocking chair

as we take Route 66, The Mother Road.

Welcome to the Amateur Traveler.

I'm your host Chris Christensen.

Let's talk about an iconic U.S. road trip.

I'd like to welcome the show Austin Coop from the two lane America

dot com travel blog and that's two with the number two and guided route 66 tours.com and strangely enough I wanted to mention

that second one because that's exactly what we're going to talk about. A road trip on Route 66. Austin, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, I appreciate it. And we're not going to spend a lot of time talking about the

itinerary because the itinerary was laid down by somebody in I said the

1950s before we started recording and I'm and I'm wrong when was Route 66 in the US

laid out? Well this is a topic in itself.

There's actually multiple alignments of Route 66.

Every now and then somebody tells me,

why would I need help going down one road?

Well, because there's three of them.

So if you imagine Route 66, it changed the same way

America changed.

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