New! Possible Spring NY-Vegas trip.

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Originally Posted by Southwest Dave

You will find lots of useful info on '66 throughout the forums and roadtrip planning pages by using your search button, but your sat nav won't recognise a road that was decommissioned many years ago. The historic 66 site has lots of info where you can click on the gps link for more info about downloading the files to your Garmin.

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Thank you for the info. I've been on almost every route 66 website in the past few weeks and as Midwest Michael stated I do not think that I will have enough time in this short 2 weeks to take that road. I've read that Garmin actually has a GPS with a map of route 66 already programmed into it. As great as it sounds the rest of the GPS unit doesn't have that many options and seems to be more for motorcyclists rather that autos. If I didn't already own a decently optioned GPS I would have looked into that one a little bit more. Looks like route 66 is going to have to take a backseat for this trip. Maybe I'll be fortunate enough to tackle this in a few years.

There is one considerable stretch of old 66 that is still in commission (as AZ State 66) between Seligman and Kingman AZ that you could take without delaying you very much. Without any significant stops enroute, this will add less than an hour over staying on I-40.

I would like to add my 2 cents but first of all to other readers even though I never really post here as I had never done a cross country trip before August - all the contributions and ideas here on roadtrip america were a huge help in planning and implementation.
With that said - gage - I think you can do this. My daughters (ages 17 and 21) and I (husband opted out on this one) drove from Los Angeles to New York. Left on a Thursday and arrived in NY the following Thursday. That included a full day (2 nights) in St. Louis just to have some non drive days. We sort of "shadowed" route 66 for parts - stopped at of the places that interested us. Drove no more than 9 hours in a day. We veered to Santa Fe and spent a morning checking out the annual Indian Market - we also veered off to Cleveland to spend a morning at the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame. We never ate fast food - sit down dinner or lunches only. The girls loved it - but in a time crunch we could of easily done it one day quicker.

With that said I think round trip in 14 days is totally possible - its clear that's what you want to do - I say go for it. If you want more details on our route since we started in LA - your destination I can elaborate more.

Hi emc, Welcome to the RTA forums !

I am pleased the forums helped with the planning of your trip, thanks for popping by to share your experience and offer help to others.

Dave.

EMC,

Sounds like you guys had a great trip! Thanks for your insight and i would definitely love to hear which routes you drove. Did you end up driving home??

Our stops on our route from LA were:
Flagstaff
Santa Fe NM
Oklahoma City
St. Louis (2 nights)
Cleveland
State College, PA
Long Island NY

Trip was for fun and to get my daughters vehicle to NY so she could use it for her last year in college there. So me and my other daughter flew the return trip. In between those cities obviously we stopped along the way - maybe just for a quick stretch of the legs and take some pictures or to have a meal. Some things we stopped specifically for were Seligman, AZ Winslow AZ Cadillac Ranch near Amarillo, detour off the highway to hit a bit of Kansas' route 66, dinner with relatives in Springfield MO, too many things to mention in our full day in St. Louis, long lunch with old friends in downtown Indianapolis, Rock N Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland. Tour around Penn State just for the heck of it. So you can see we weren't going at a break neck speed. It was really a great time. I hope to do another route in the near future.

To everyone who has shared ideas and concerns with me i greatly appreciate it. Due to this poor economy and being in the automotive field (GM Dealership) I have lost a large portion of my vacation time amongst other things. Hopefully one day in the future this trip can happen, but for now its just another pipe dream... Again thanks to all who have shared their views with me.