The Great American Road Trip

Those of you who know me know that I am a hopeless petrolhead. I LOVE cars. I've written about the Mercedes of my past and the current Jetta, but I also have a 1966 Ford Galaxie Custom 500 that I've been tinkering with for the past couple of years. Before the jet age, everyone drove their car wherever they went. A road trip was an adventure. These days, it seems more like torture to most! I've never been on a true road trip, and I must resolve that one day. When the Galaxie is fully restored, I'm taking it on one. I think that I owe it that. We don't build machines like that any more, and they really are reminders of days gone by. Didn't Jack Kerouac say that "the road is life?" Anyway, I've been browsing around the internet looking for my opportunity at such, and have pretty much narrowed down the choices to either US Route 50 OR US Route 30 with the return down as much of old Route 66 as possible. Both US 30 and 50 run from coast to coast (50 actually ends at the ocean in both cases), and offer up the trip I'm looking for. One to see America, to see the small towns and lonely roads that make up this great country. I'm sure that On The Road will be required reading. Either trip will return by as much of old 66 as possible. "There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars".......