Wednesday, 17 September 2014

Starting Point



This year the stitchers in Quilts Etc.’s block-of-the-month class are learning about Route 66. We’ll be making at least two blocks each month to commemorate “America’s Main Street,” the 2448-mile highway that linked Chicago and L.A. If you’ve been reading this blog long enough, you already know that traveling what remains of the “Mother Road” has been on my bucket list for years. We were living in England when ITV began airing the series, Billy Connolly's Route 66. Watching from so far away only made me hungrier to motor through St. Louis, Joplin, Oklahoma City, Amarillo, Gallup,  Flagstaff, Winona, Kingman, Barstow, and San Bernardino. If money’s no object, you can buy a posh vacation package that includes a Chrysler convertible. It takes a little more than two weeks, start to finish. If you lack the time or the ready cash, you can see it all whiz by in just over a minute at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTeCqnBuDdU.

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