Chicago – The Windy City2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - September 26, 2021October 28, 2022 After a night spent on the outskirts of Detroit in the Hilton Garden Inn in Novi, it was time to venture even further west to Chicago. The journey down through Michigan State was quite entertaining, with us marvelling at place names like Climax, in Kalamazoo County, Sprinkle, Springfield (about the fourth one of those since Cape Cod… and still no Homer Simpson!), Valparaiso and Gary.This was
Route 66 – Over the Hump2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - October 14, 2017June 19, 2018 Gallup was an unremarkable pivotal point in our Route 66 journey. Our trip switched from a westerly route to a northerly diversion off route. It had been our intention all along to head up into Utah to see the landscapes that had featured on so many books, films, album covers, postcards etc..It's funny how different it becomes leaving one of the main trunk roads and
Route 66 – The Middle Bit2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr C - October 1, 2017May 20, 2022 Oklahoma behind us, we got back onto Route 66 to see what 'the middle bit' had to offer. An overnight stop in Elk City on the western fringes of Oklahoma was the start of our journey over the plains; miles and miles of flat, straight roads with nothing to see from horizon to horizon except for an occasional grain silo and rows and rows of
Route 66 – The First Few Days2017 - Our Year OutTravel, Holidays and Hotels by Mr and Mrs C - September 29, 2017April 24, 2018 To a soundtrack of The Eagles, Fleetwood Mac and other stalwarts of the soft-rock world on ‘The Bridge’ at Sirius XM, we mosied on down Route 66, stopping off to take pics of 1920s petrol pumps and to drink coffee in diners which looked like they hadn't changed one iota since the late 60s.Other than a simple stop over in a little hotel outside
