EZ UPDATES

For readers of the EZ 66 Guide for Travelers, I have provided free online updates to help keep your Route 66 experience as current as possible. As you might imagine, Route 66 is constantly undergoing changes, some good, others not so. Businesses open and close, roads are re-routed and street names change.

Please check back here just before your trip for the latest info. Entries are dated as to when they were added.

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EZ 66 readers have been helpful in keeping me keep the guidebook updated in between my own road trips, so if you discover something that needs to be addressed while on your journey, please let me know!

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MO page 3 on Sep 08, 2010 at 8:21:21 pm [Print]
OOPS! I was a bit unclear about the WB directions for getting on I-70 at EXIT 245B...you should join I-70 EAST, headed south to downtown St Louis.

See, I was giving a compass direction for the actual direction of travel, but the sign you see (correctly) gives the general EAST trend of travel for I-70...and this has caused confusuion!

My bad!

AZ page-9 on Sep 08, 2010 at 8:16:03 pm [Print]
I just heard from River Pilot (that's his name not his occupation...although he does guide bikers down 66) that the "Santa Fe Diner" (the heavily disguised Valentine Diner) in Winslow has been moved.

Hope it ends up back on 66, and restored.

MO page-13 on Sep 08, 2010 at 1:12:38 am [Print]
Shucks...the GIANT ALERT #2 is canceled, as the A&W Rootbeer family has taken off for parts unknown.

But a giant hillbilly stands at the Mule Trading Post!

OK page-9 on Sep 08, 2010 at 1:08:19 am [Print]
The Nut House gets a lot of visitors...but they only have pecan pie (hmmmm) in the FALL!

IL page-9 on Aug 09, 2010 at 2:38:25 pm [Print]
The Riviera recently burned down, and the streetcar has been removed.

OK page 16 on Jul 16, 2010 at 2:35:30 pm [Print]
Whoops! meant to tell you that the Motorcycle Museum at Seaba Station in Warwick is NOW OPEN!

Its pretty cool and well worth the stop if you are into vintage bikes or cool old gas stations (Seaba was a DX station, and then a machine shop).


IL page-22 on Jul 03, 2010 at 8:44:36 pm [Print]
The Giant surfer dude and pink elephant that once where here are now at Livingston at the "Gymnasim" antique mall. This is off EXIT 37 on the 1950s era 66 (not part of the tour but worth a detour). They also have a flying saucer-like structure, etc.

IL page-21 on Jul 03, 2010 at 8:42:47 pm [Print]
Well, Route 66 lost another nice little bridge...a little brick-guard-railed structure on Cambridge Road between Girard ans Nilwood on the official 1926-1930 routing.

It is currently being replaced, and a detour will be in effect until work is done.

Also the affected map shows a side road (not 66), Greenbridge Rd, that connects to current IL 4 from Cambridge Rd...this is now blocked at the RR tracks.

Thanks to Kevin and Yvonne.

MO page-19 on Mar 16, 2010 at 3:07:48 pm [Print]
The RV Express RV Park In Marshfield has CLOSED.

spring 2013...but I think I heard it may be reopening?

OK page-27 on Jan 23, 2010 at 1:03:27 am [Print]
Its too late to wave HI or BYE to the Giant Indian that was in Clinton...he's moved to a trading post across from the easternmost Cherokee trading post on I-40.