Route 66 Reloaded

This may be the 21st century, but the concept here is considerably older than Route 66.
[Caution for those of you pulling this post down via cellular data – lots of pictures here.]
Day 2 of my Route 66 tourlette – and no, that isn’t a misspelling of another word – netted more dead ends than expected, but I’d purposely built in a few, so the excess was more of an opportunity than a problem. First thing was to pull off I-40 at Exit 269, which took me past Jack Rabbit Trading Post, which is a lot less grandiose than your usual tourist trap. Built in 1948, it’s now more of a Read more…