Day 4 – 1461 Miles from Home TUCUMCARI, NM to EDMOND, OK – 427 Miles Talk about hellacious headwinds!! But first… Back to the beginning of the day and the Blue Swallow… I’ve gotta tell ya… Kevin (owner of the Blue Swallow Motel) didn’t lie. When showing us the room he’d extolled the virtues of…
Day 3 – 1034 Miles from Home GALLUP, NM to TUCUMCARI, NM – 335 Miles After a lovely night’s stay in the Jane Wyman room at the El Rancho, we hopped on the 40 and got off a short bit later on Continental Divide to get to Route 66. For the most part, the Mother…
Day 2 – 699.6 Miles from Home KINGMAN, AZ to GALLUP, NM – 368 Miles Over the last couple of years since buying the Motor Palace, we’ve made the trek between Orange and Winslow about a bazillion times and have explored every fragment of the Mother Road–and I mean literal FRAGMENTS! So this time, since…
Day 1 – 331 Miles from Home ORANGE, CA. to KINGMAN, AZ – 331 Miles At long last our Route-66-to-Chicago-to-Milwaukee trip has begun! I promised my mommy I’d write a daily update, plus, it gives my brain something to think about on the road and makes a nice journal to look back on. Can’t promise…
Consider this a test post–with a little road trip update mixed in, you know, for practice.
Over the weekend, my feller celebrated his birthday and when asked what he wanted to do, he of course said, “Cruise Route 66!!” So we left Bondorella to hang with Smiley, our neighbors VW Bus, and hopped on the Harleys. There are sections of Route 66 filled with so much American eye candy, your head’s…
Bondorella hit an exciting landmark this past weekend. Is there a word like quinceanera but for a first birthday?? Unoceanera? Yeah… we’ll go with that. ‘Cause really, she deserves a fancy ball gown and tiara and tons of adoring fans for this momentous occasion. Just over a year ago, the truck was completely deconstructed and…
THE MOTHER ROAD TO THE MOTOR PALACE First off, I have to admit, my ’48 Ford did not get to go on this trip. To maximize the time I get out of her Flathead, I need to limit long road trips, although she has had a few. Besides, we needed to haul some stuff out…