Route 66’s Oddities
Michael Witzel explores the flip side of Route 66 in his new book to offer details on the infamous Route 66 locations that once served as gang hideouts.
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America’s Highway, Route 66–Cowboys and Cadillacs
Route 66 Roadside Signs and Advertisements – Book Excerpt Joe Sonderman loves the Mother Highway, America’s Route 66. In this new book, Route 66 Roadside Signs and Advertisements he presents a history of some of the thousands of signs and advertisements that can be found or once were found on Route 66. Joe teamed up […]
Postcards from Route 66
Postcards from The Mother Road Across the USA Postcards from Route 66 is a collection of illustrated and photographic postcards of the Mother Road’s hotels, bustling burgs, greasy spoons, and natural wonders, spanning Route 66’s golden age of the 1930s through the mid-1960s. There is perhaps no better visual record of Route 66’s iconic sites […]
Photo Gallery: Route 66 Adventure Handbook
A GoNOMAD Gallery of Photographs from an extraordinary book: Route 66 Adventure Handbook, 4th edition By Drew Knowles Traveling old U.S. 66 is the experience of a lifetime. Along the way, you’ll encounter sad, dilapidated ruins, but you’ll also see the results of concerted efforts to make the old highway a tourist attraction again. And […]
Route 66 Adventure Handbook by Drew Knowles
Kick off your shoes, shun the interstate, and travel on Rte 66! By Helena Wahlstrom A word of warning: after traveling down America’s best-loved highway between the pages of Drew Knowles’s “Route 66 Adventure Handbook,” you might find yourself on the road for real. Knowles’s brilliant, genuinely fond account of Route 66, now in its […]
Route 66: The Main Street of America
By Connie Maria Westergaard Route 66 is probably the most famous road in the world. No other stretch of asphalt has been the subject matter of so many novels, movies, songs, and television shows. Route 66 is America’s Main Street. And to Europeans like us, it is a symbol of America. But what is all […]
Travel The Liberation Route Europe
Learn some history while you travel. A short synopsis and excerpt from this Allied liberation route travel guide by Rough Guides.
U.S. Highway 89: Scenic Route to Seven National Parks
U.S. Highway 89 Gallery The Scenic Route to Seven Western National Parks Text and Photographs by Ann Torrence Ann Torrence’s U.S. Highway 89: The Scenic Route to Seven Western National Parks is a beautiful coffee table book with lots of gorgeous photographs, and it’s a self-published project no less! Here’s a gallery of our favorite […]
Connecting Coasts: Norway’s E39 Mega Highway
Norway is working on one of the world’s most ambitious highway projects with massive improvements on its E39 highway along its rugged coast.
Drive-In Movies Are the New Normal
Drive-in movies are the new normal in the age of the pandemic. A round-up of ten wonderful outdoor drive-in movie theaters around the United States.
I Travel Because…
We travel because…a group of GoNOMAD travel writers answer this profound question…why do we travel. Read the many reasons why we all keep traveling.
Ghost Towns of the West
The Essential guidebook to the Glory days of the Old West and Ghost Towns By Phillip Varney and Jim Hinckley Ghost Towns of the West blazes a trail through the dusty crossroads and mossy cemeteries of the American West, including one-time boomtowns in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and […]