Have you ever traveled on the old mother road, route 66? It is truly an experience you won't soon forget. Although there are only a couple hundred miles left of this once well traveled road, it still leads to some well remembered old towns.

Although I haven't traveled the more eastern parts of old 66, I have been on most of the remaining parts from New Mexico on through to the Arizona - California border.

As of this writing, my wife, Gerri, and I are working at the Seligman Rte 66 KOA camp ground. We have seen just about all of the old road from five miles west of Ash Fork on through Kingman and on into Oatman, Arizona.

We work two days a week at the campground, which leaves us ample time to explore wherever we wish. I hope while we are up here, we might take a trip over into New Mexico and find some of the old highway that still remains there.

I am currently reading a book entitled "Route 66, The Mother Road" by Michael Wallis. It tells all about the history of Route 66, and the people who began the push for a main highway from Chicago to L.A. It also has some great pictures of the people and the towns that once dotteded the landscape along this so famous road.

My one regret in life is that I did not get to travel this old highway in its hayday. I can close my eyes and envision driving from Chicago on west to all the old towns that once prospered from all the tourists and folks looking for a better life away from the big cities of the east.

I finally did move west from my native New York state, but we wound up in the Phoenix area. That was back in 1978, and at that time I was unaware of the old road, which at that time there was still alot of it in existance.

As I sit here writing this article, I have to mention the railroad. You can watch the trains rolling up and down the tracks, at least two to three hundred every day. They're is a train passing in either direction, sometimes at the same time. They are not ten to fifteen minutes apart. The SFBN which stands for Santa Fe and Burlington Northern must be making a killing. They are loaded with shipping containers headed for Wal-Mart and truck trailers full of goods headed for wherever. One good thing is that the amount of freight hauled by rail is sure saving the roads from a lot of truck travel. I guess this could be disputed by a lot of unemployed truck drivers.

Well anyway, if you have never traveled on the old "Mother Road", you should, just for the sake of saying you've been on the most famous road of all time.