GC 322 The Beginning

Sometime in 2015 we decided to visit the Grand Canyon.  Then came making the decision on how best to get there and get around while there.  The Grand Canyon is located at a problematic distance from Wichita where the decision whether to fly or to drive is not a particularly easy one.  But THEN I realized that the driving route basically paralleled Route 66, so it was an easy decision after that!  

For Christmas Andrew gave me a series of guidebooks and maps to add to my existing collection of Route 66 material.  I spend a LOT of the winter months of 2016 reading and planning a Route 66 itinerary that – oh by the way – happened to include a visit to the Grand Canyon.  In the end we decided to rent a car and drive one way, and then fly back home via Las Vegas.

This then is the much delayed story of our trip down the portions of Route 66 in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.  (See http://morgansroute66.blogspot.com/ if you want to see the parts of Route 66 we’d previously toured in Kansas and Oklahoma back in 2006.)  This blog is the very much the abbreviated story of our overall trip, almost as notable for the things NOT included as those that are.  On the same trip we toured the Grand Canyon, and some of Las Vegas, but I’m not posting any of those shots here.  Nor will you find many shots of the Painted Desert/Petrified Forrest, any of any of Meteor Crater, or many of all the other curiosities one can find “along the road”.