Digital Route 66 – Travel Blog

I should get my laptop back on Monday, so perhaps things will return to normal on Digital Route 66.  I should get the Gardner page up in the middle of next week…again, hopefully…and then on Sunday the 20th it’s the quarterly meeting of the Route 66 Association of Illinois up in Willowbrook.  I’ll have details from the meeting here and probably on the Yahoo! Route 66 message board as well.I was also able to finally get a mission statement written for the proposed Route 66 alliance as I volunteered to do at the meetings in Litchfield:

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To serve as an international uniting force in the ongoing preservation, promotion, and protection of Historic U.S. Highway 66 as well as the principal proponent for the education and enjoyment of the Mother Road.

• Aid and assist individuals and organizations, including the various state and international Route 66 associations, in their national and regional preservation, promotion and education efforts
• Help improve the ability of travelers to experience and enjoy Route 66 and the ability of towns and businesses along the route to share in
• Preserve the history of the road through the capture of oral histories, photographs and other written/digital records that will make the facts and memories of Route 66 available to all future generations
• Raise funds for the ongoing preservation efforts along the highway through alliance/association membership, corporate sponsorship opportunities and assistance with grant application writing
• Recruit future generations of road enthusiasts to travel Route 66 and help support the highway
• Serve as a unified national voice for the highway and her inhabitants, tourists and supporters

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I’m sure there will be many revisions.  But it’s a start.

In the meantime I’ve also actually written a bit over at my main blog, exit670.com.  Not that there’s anything terribly relevant there: it’s basically just my personal blog for writing whatever crap comes to mind (though never anything so menial as “I petted my cat today” or such).  That works for some; not for me.  Anyway, one of these days I’ll actually be able to write regularly on both sites.

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