Welcome to the Digital Route 66 Blog! As a companion to my Route 66 website that features coverage of the road throughout Illinois and the Saint Louis area, I hope to use the blog to not inform the masses on changes to the main website but also to post highlights and photos from our various trips along Route 66 as well as other highways.
The biggest reason behind starting this portion of the site is to give me a chance to – hopefully – blog the upcoming Route 66 Association of Illinois 2008 Motor Tour this upcoming weekend. Registration begins Friday night at Scotty’s Bar & Grill in Hamel and the trip kicks off Saturday morning as the group crosses the Chain of Rocks Bridge (for a modest $5 fee that goes toward Trailnet). I’ll have my camera along for the ride and can hopefully fill a Flickr album or two with highlights of the trip, plus plenty of details that I can pass along here.
In addition, Litchfield is playing home to the National Route 66 Festival this year, and I hope to cover all of the events going on that week here as well.
Of course, Digital Route 66 is always being updated with new town pages, information and pictures, and the blog will also serve as a tremendous source for information on the ever changing website.