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200Tom1 
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 Topic: Route 66 highway
Posted: 28 Apr 2024 at 12:30am |
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Anybody ever take a trip over the old road? I am thinking about, next fall, getting on it and heading south and west. Might stay In Arizona or on a beach in Southern California. I wonder how cold it gets in California about 50' north of the US/Mexican border in Dec and January.
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DMiller
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Posted: 28 Apr 2024 at 6:45am |
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Are sections of The Mother Road in MO yet is pretty well incomplete where have to access I44 in many spots. OK has a longer length but is daunting to access gas or eateries as we found several years ago on a road trip along Rte 66. Some lengths are not very maintained at all.
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Codger
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Posted: 28 Apr 2024 at 6:49am |
Several parts of it remain intact and are preserved. I've beat many miles between Chicago, and OKC on it over the years and am old enough to remember the road being officially "retired" at the final completion of I-55 in Illinois back in 1976. Had driven the last section around Litchfield, IL just the week before and at it's completion, the route was officially decommissioned.
Can't answer for further west however.
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Coke-in-MN
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Posted: 28 Apr 2024 at 1:24pm |
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Cal in winter seems warm yet at night you notice the cold . Mountain areas away from coast have big changes as sun dips . From beech weather to snow along roads is or can be a day trip in winter seasons .
Had many adventures on my motorcycle out around San Diego back in early 60's when in the Navy and in that area . If you didn't leave the cities you hardly noticed it , but had long johns I would put on when riding as you would get chilled to the bone otherwise .
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Ray54
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Posted: 28 Apr 2024 at 5:05pm |
South of Los Angles  Orange county, back before the crazies took it all over, grew orange trees. Orange trees don't do well below 28 degrees. So generally speaking it stays above freezing all year. But did I mention the crazies.
I am half way between LA and SF on the inland side of coastal mountains right at 70 years and never shoveled O'l Shameless "pretty" yet.
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AC7060IL
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Posted: 28 Apr 2024 at 8:14pm |
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Some of the “original Rt 66 road” segments are still accessible here in Illinois. These segments might be short thru road (curvy brick pavement south of Chatham)or they may only be entry/exit at same points? Usually the later, have not been maintained & a bridge or two are closed/off limits, so you can enter segment, drive it to closure then turn around & drive back to entrance to exit(segments north of chroma). These old payments are interesting to inspect with their “hot tar strip sealants” inside original concrete fishers.
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