along Route 66, with side trips, from south of Chicago all the way to the Santa Monica Pier;
up the west coast to the tip of Washington,
across to Vancouver Island,
then another ferry, to the mainland of Canada,
a journey to Whistler, through the Rockies,
and home via the Trans-Canada Highway to Sudbury, then south to Toronto and back to Montreal.
DAILY JOURNAL
Weekly entries from May 2nd to August 8th: you can click on the week # to get the journal entry and some photos.
Week # | AREA(S) VISITED | Click for photos | sample photo |
| 1 | From home
in Montreal
to Joliette, IL,
down Route 66,
to St.Louis,
thru Missouri
& a corner of Kansas,
into Oklahoma,
to Tulsa. | 1) Border crossing, Cereal City, Early Rte 66(23);
Polk-a-Dot Drive-In, Odell gas station(17);
Lexington, Atlanta, Springfield(55);
Cozy-Dog Drive-In, Rte 66 Illinois(20);
Rte 66, Soulsby Shell, Luna Caf�, etc. (71);
Rte 66, Fast Lanes, St. Louis, Ted Drewes, etc.(13);
Rte 66 thru Missouri, Munger Moss Motel, into Kansas & Oklahoma, Coca Cola �stuff�(41) |  |
| 1 cont'd | | 2) into Oklahoma on Route 66, into Tulsa and heading to OK City. |  |
| 2
| Arcadia,
Oklahoma City,
Rte 66 museums,
Guthrie | Hillbillies, Roundbarn,Arcadia,
N'tl Cowboy Museum, OKC Nat'l Memorial, the milk bottle,
Guthrie,
Annie's Chicken Fry House,
El Reno,
Rte 66 Museums in Clinton and Elk City, Foss SP |  |
| 2 cont'd | Oklahoma, Rte 66 museums,
Palo Duro Canyon SP TX,
Roswell, NM
Carlsbad Caverns,
Rockhound SP* | Foss State Park, Rte 66 Museums in Clinton and Elk City OK,
Palo Duro SP TX,
along Rte 66 into New Mexico,
down to Roswell,
Carlsbad and the caverns |  |
| 2 cont'd | south of Carlsbad NM,
past El Paso TX,
along I-10 in New Mexico,
to Willcox AZ & Tombstone AZ. | town on the highway where one cuts off to Carlsbad Caverns,
through the Gaudelope Mountains,
towards El Paso TX, across the bottom of New Mexico
through ghost towns and Rockhound SP,
Willcox AZ,
Tombstone AZ |  |
| 3
| into southeast AZ, Willcox, ghosttowns, Tombstone, Chiricahua,
Patagonia Lake SP,
Nogales Mexico,
Spanish missions,
Tucson | Ghost Town Road south of Willcox AZ,
Tombstone,
Patagonia Lake SP,
Nogales Mexico, Nogales AZ,
dirt road to Lockiel to Coronado Ntl Mon,
Tumacumcari, San Xavier del Bac Mission,
Tucson Mountain Park,
Saguaro NP |  |
| 4
| Old Tucson Studios,
Tucson to Phoenix area the long way around,
Rawhide,
Apache Trail | Catalina SP, Old Tucson Studios,
International Wildlife Museum,
Arizona-Sonoran Desert Museum,
Saguaro NP,
Sabino Canyon Recreation area,
hiway to Globe, Bash-Ba-Gowah Archaelolgical Park,
Phoenix area, Casa Grande Ruins, Theodore Roosevelt Lake, Dam and Bridge,
Apache Trail,
Rawhide,
Tonto Natural Bridge |  |
| 5
| Deadhorse Ranch SP, Cottonwood, Jerome, Prescott, Sedona, Oak Creek Canyon, Flagstaff,
Twin Arrows, Two Guns,
Winslow,
Holbrook,
Petrified Forest, Painted Desert,
Grand Canyon | Apache Trail,
Rawhide,
Tonto,
Jerome,
Lost Mine Ghost Town,
Sedona/red rock country
|  |
| 5 cont'd
| Flagstaff, Twin Arrows, Two Guns,
Winslow, Holbrook, Petrified Forest, Painted Desert,
Grand Canyon | along Route 66.I-40 east from Flagstaff,
Twin Arrows, Two Guns,
Winslow, Holbrook,
Petrified Forest National Monument,
then to the Grand Canyon.
|  |
| 6
| Grand Canyon,
Williams, Seligman, Kingman,
Hoover Dam,
Las Vegas,
Death Valley Junction,
Death Valley | Under reconstruction, but Las Vegas is here,
and more of the Grand Canyon. |  |
| 7
| Death Valley NP*,
original McDonald's,
Joshua Tree NP,
Los Angeles area,
Anaheim, Disneyland |  |  |
| 8
| more L.A. area,
San Simeon SP,
Hearst Castle,
Pebble Beach,
San Francisco area | Disneyland/ California Adventure,
up the Pacific Coast Highway from Malibou,
Hearst Castle,
Elephant seals,
17-Mile Drive/Pebble Beach |  |
| 9
| San Francisco area,
Golden Gate Bridge,
Pacific Coast Hiway, Redwood trees,
Oregon coast | San Francisco,
cable cars/harbour tour,
Golden Gate Bridge,
up the coast,
Redwood country, Fern Valley, etc. |  |
| 10
| Washington coast and inland,
Olympic NP,
Victoria BC,
Sydney, sailing | up the coast,
on the beach/dunes,
Olympic National Park,
western tip of Washington,
Victoria, British Columbia,
sailing off Sydney in the straits,
North Vancouver,
Sea to Sky Hiway to Squamish to Whistler and beyond |  |
| 11
| Victoria,
Vancouver area,
Squamish,
Whistler,
North Vancouver | go to the above site |
| 12
| North Vancouver area,
Okanagan Valley,
Revelstoke,
Glacier,
North of Lake Louise |
| 13
| Jasper,
Lake Louise,
Banff, Calgary, hoodos,
Regina, Steinbech, to Sudbury | for photos of us coming back across Canada, you must e-mail me: [email protected] to get the web-site for Shutterfly.com |
| 14
| to daughter, Carrie's, and to son, Chris', west of Toronto, and home. |
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| * | SP = State Park |
| NP = National Park |
More photos --- still to be added. I'm about 3/4 of the way thru the over 3000 images from the digital and the 500+ from film.
