An American Adventure - Route 66 Road Trip - April/May 2020

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Wismgari, I forgot to quote your previous entry

Ooh, I'm thinking September next year might be a good option too We'll maybe see you there! I love a spreadsheet, and did have one to start with but if I'm honest I prefer a list, so I changed my planning to list form. It's really good to have a rough plan to start with and you can move things around from there. Three weeks sounds fantastic... a good amount of time to see a lot of things on the route and some side trips too. Hijack away - I've loved reading about your preliminary plans.

Oh my goodness - a trip to Marceline. I have to confess to having a look on Google maps early on in my planning to see if it was close to R66 but with our tight timeline it would be too much of a stretch. That will be fabulous, I would love to see the museum and the inspiration for Main Street USA. Springfield IL has so much to see - I really hope if we manage to add a couple more days to our trip that we can spend a bit more time there than we currently have planned.

Are you staying at the Wagon Wheel Motel in Cuba? I really wanted to stay there but couldn't get the timings to fit

You have some really interesting side trips planned. I haven't heard of some of the national parks you're visiting, I'll have to look them up. Santa Fe looks amazing doesn't it - I'm desperate to find a way to fit it into our plans. If I don't succeed you'll have to tell me all about it!

So pleased you're staying at the El Rancho... it's one of those stays that I really feel has to be done. Classic Route 66! I hope when we re-jig our plan if we have more days that we can still stay there - despite being the cheapest hotel we had booked, it was the one I was looking forward to the most (apart from the Venetian ).

Have you looked for accommodation in Flagstaff yet? It was the one we struggled with most. A lot of places just didn't look nice, or had bad reviews and as far as I could tell there aren't any really iconic R66 motels there. It mostly seemed to be cheap chains like Motel 6 and even they were expensive there. If you find anywhere reasonably priced and nice or iconic please let me know.

I think I'd be torn between a second night in Williams or a night in Seligman too. Williams looks such a cool place and I was (am!) really looking forward to being there. However, Seligman has the Delgadillo's and is a must stop - I'm not sure I know of anywhere to stay there though but then I didn't really look into that.

Ah, the Wigwam Motel - I so wanted to stay there as well. I think it is a "must" for the novelty value. How I wish we had some spare days for Disneyland. It will make such a great end to your trip finishing off with a bit of Disney. San Diego too - I've heard it's a lovely place but I think I would be tempted by an extra Disney day or maybe Universal.

The Utah national parks also sounds like a great trip in itself - it makes perfect sense for you to do Monument Valley along with the others. It's unlikely we would do that so fitting it into this trip is a must for us.

Your plans are great and I've really enjoyed reading about them and getting more ideas for our own trip. Please feel free to pop onto this thread any time with more of your planning - I'm thrilled to have someone to "chat" Route 66 with. It becomes such an obsession (for me anyway ).

Will you be doing your own report? If so, you know I would read it! Thank you for all of your comments and info so far, hopefully we can share some more