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After more
than a year in the making, the PBCC Route 66 Cruise kicked off on Sunday
9/11/05.
Day 1: Midland to Amarillo
(view photos)
We drove to
Amarillo to
participate in the Amarillo Area Corvette Club annual 9/11 Caravan to
remember the events of 9/11/01 and to thank the firefighters, veterans, and
policemen that make this country so great.
Day 2: Amarillo to Albuquerque
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We stopped
at Cadillac Ranch to leave our mark, Vega to see the restored Magnolia
Station and Dot’s Mini Museum, Adrian for lunch at the MidPoint
Café (the halfway point of Rt 66), Tucumcari for
shopping, Santa Rosa to see the Route 66 Auto Museum, and the Red Arrow RV
Park. Once in Albuquerque, we met some members of the
NM Corvette Association at the 66 Diner for dinner and then cruised to see
some of the beautiful neon signs.
PBCC was
here at the Cadillac Ranch.
Day 3: Albuquerque to
Williams (view photos)
We stopped
in Gallup to see the restored El Rancho Hotel, Painted Desert and Petrified
Forest, Holbrook for lunch at Joe and Aggies
Restaurant and view the Wigwam Motel, Winslow for “standin’
on the corner” (what else), ending up in Williams.
Painted Desert
Day 4:
Williams to San Bernardino
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We started
off the morning at the Grand Canyon –
wow!!! Then stops at Seligman the
birthplace of Historic Route 66, Kingman for the Route 66 Museum, Cool
Springs to see the restored gas station, Sitgreaves Pass
(fun road), Oatman, then ending in San Bernardino, CA. What a long day…
Day 5: San Bernardino to
Santa Monica Pier (view photos)
We made it
to the end of Route 66 – the Santa Monica Pier. We have driven the Western half of Route
66 (Adrian to Santa Monica Pier).
Scott
standing at the end of the Mother
Road.
Day 6:
Ronald Reagan Library (view photos)
We braved
the LA freeways again to see the Reagan Library in Simi Valley. After that, we went back to San Bernardino for
Rendezvous activities.
Day 7: Huntington Beach (view photos)
Another
early start. This time we went to Huntington Beach to
see the Donut Derelicts. This
informal car gathering started about 20 years ago when 3 guys started
meeting on Saturday mornings for donuts.
Now hundreds of people gather to show off their rides. Then it was down to the beach and more
shopping. We finished off back at
the Rendezvous for our last day in CA.
Day 8: San Bernardino to Tombstone (view photos)
Time to
head back towards home. We stopped
in Phoenix to tour the Bondurant Racing
School. We got lucky and saw Bob Bondurant driving
a C6 Z06 around the road course and then we saw new Z06s in all the
available colors. Before we left, an
instructor took the Holmes and the Sparkmans
around the road course in a Cadillac CTS.
That guy could make that car fly.
Day 9: Tombstone to home (view photos)
The last
day of the cruise. We took a last
look around Tombstone
and toured Boothill before heading home.
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