On 9/12/2014 5:52 AM, Jan van Wijk wrote:
I will be in the US for a conference in St Louis, at the end of october,
and plan to stay for another two weeks or so for a road-trip and
hoping to encounter a lot of photographic opportunities :)
Will be flying into (and out of) Chicago from Amsterdam, and there are a few
areas I want to explore:
1)
The first half of Route-66, from Chicago down to Amarillo Texas, staying OFF
the Interstates as much as
possible, and hoping to find stuff from the fifties, as well as even older
ghost towns along the way.
2)
Then east through Texas back to the Mississippi, no specific route ...
3)
North from Natches upto Nashville along the old Natches trail (now a parkway I
think)
4)
Back north to Chicago, probably along the Interstates, bringing
the total travel distance to something like 3500 miles.
I'll probably make a nice photobook out of the trip, allthough it will be
hard to match the quality Jostein presented us with last year!
Of course I will be doing some research on the net before leaving,
but I would love some input from the vast knowledge of the list too ...
I am looking for ghost-towns, derelict buildings, old cars and similar stuff.
Nature reserves, and wildlife would also be nice.
Any hints and tips on that or other 'must sees' are welcome!
I will be traveling rather light, but will have my K3 with 18-135mm
and the Bigma 50-500mm with me, and probably the 35mm macro.
If i get the opportunity to meet some of the PDML members over there
that would be nice too, but I do not have a fixed schedule yet ...
TIA, Jan van Wijk
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It appears there's very little of the original experience left on the
portion from Chicago to Oklahoma City. In Oklahoma & Texas Route-66 is
buried under I-40 in most places.
Remnants are left at some of the exits where the Interstate bypassed
small towns, and occasionally as the service road that parallels the
Interstate. The most preserved portions of the original Route-66 appear
to be out in New Mexico & Arizona.
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