What follows is Bill's Route 66 motorcycle trip. It includes a few pictures from the solo ride to Chicago, lots of pictures from the group ride from Chicago to LA on old Route 66 with about 25 other people on an AMA tour, and a few pictures from the train ride from San Francisco to Manassas, VA with Andrea. The bulk of these pictures are the Route 66 trip.

This is pretty much a travelogue, and I don't attempt to explain the significance of the road, or why in hell anyone would even want to follow a road end-to-end, much less one that doesn't even exist anymore. If you are totally unfamiliar with what Route 66 is, you may want to check out this Route 66 website first.

The web pages are set up such that you should be able to keep your cursor in one place and just keep clicking. For those of you with WebTV or similar browsers, you should be able to just keep hitting the Enter key, since "Next Page" is the first link on every screen.

I have two options. One is with 1024x768 and 768x1024 shots and the other is with 640x480 and 480x640 shots. If you have the bandwidth (it's a total of 17M) and the monitor, use the bigger ones. Otherwise, I strongly suggest you use the smaller ones.

Note this is 135 pages, so you may want to bookmark part way through and come back later.

If you want to pull down all 8.7M of the smaller version at once, you can download this file into an empty directory on your machine, unzip it, double-click the file "index.html", and go through the pictures with lightning speed. Then just delete the directory when you are done. Otherwise...

Feel free to e-mail me about Route 66 if you have any questions, observations or just want to chat about the old road. I will be starting the missus on her first trip on old Route 66 in late 2005. We will be driving Chicago to Amarillo in Fall, 2005, and we'll be doing Amarillo to Los Angeles sometimes in 2006. I plan to post pictures from those trips as well.