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.

If you wish to purchase your own copy of the EZ Guide, please go here.

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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ON page-19 on Oct 07, 2009 at 3:37:01 pm [Print]
At last (and ahead of schedule) the intersection of Broadway Ext/US 77, Memorial and Kelley on the south side of EDMOND has been completed!

Historic 66 signs are posted to direct you WB travelers onto Kelley, which now connects straight thru at Memorial and under Broadway Extension. Ditto for EB drivers...just follow the signs to move from Kelley to Broadway.

OK page 7 on Sep 22, 2009 at 12:43:35 am [Print]
Good Mom and Pop motels are hard to come by, so i wanted to point out one that was given a great review by a nice young couple from Belgium who visited my gallery today.

The Chelsea Motor Inn (NOT the old, closed Chelsea Motel) seems to be a great little place run by Trudy and Frank, who also have a pet buffalo!

MO page 23 on Sep 09, 2009 at 6:02:06 pm [Print]
Just to clarify: If you happen to be headed Eastbound on I-44 and want to join Old 66 near Halltown, you can't do it via EXIT 57. That only allows WB access to MO 96, NOT EB. If eastbound, You'll need to go on to EXIT 58 and go back thru Halltown.

KS page 2 on Sep 09, 2009 at 5:58:31 pm [Print]
Traffic circles are back! Here in the 'states "roundabouts" fell out of favor years ago, and most were removed, but now they are being built again!

Case in point: The JCT Beasley Rd (Old 66)and US 400/69A used to have STOP signs. Now you negotiate a traffic circle to get thru this intersection!

Have fun!

NM page-5 on Aug 31, 2009 at 5:40:33 pm [Print]
IF its been raining, heed the ALERT! about the tunnel under I-40 between EXIT 321 and 311. A motorcycling reader once phoned (thanx Gordo) to report that this tunnel (AND a low water crossing some miles west) were filled with water and mud.

I'd recommend skipping this section of the tour any time there's been rain.(I removed it from the main tour route...it is now an OPTION). Stay on I-40 at EXIT 321. You can get back off at EXIT 311 if you wish (but still be alert for dips in the road). Or continue to Santa Rosa.

CA page 26 on Aug 09, 2009 at 9:26:49 pm [Print]
Check out Dan Rice's Route 66 shop on the Santa Monica Pier. It's a great little booth right out on the pier, with their fine line of Route 66 shirts, and they also carry the EZ Guide (in case you are starting in the west and haven't bought one yet!

I wear one of their brown and white "historic 66" shirts, and really enjoy it.

Dan Rice
Owner, "66-to-Cali, Inc."
"End of the Road...Beginning of the Dream!"
DanRice27@yahoo.com
818-599-0972

NM page 28 on Aug 09, 2009 at 9:23:32 pm [Print]
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TYPO AlERT!!!!
"Then the faint trace jumps I-40 (west of EXIT 257), ..." I-40 is not near here. It should I-25.

Thanks Peggy!

OK page 16 on Jul 27, 2009 at 8:44:32 pm [Print]
The Steer Inn in Chandler is now closed.
And so is Papas BBQ. Dang.

MO page-3 on Jul 26, 2009 at 7:21:02 pm [Print]
TYPO ALERT!

On MO page-3 a reader found the error “Take EXIT 254B, and turn RIGHT” it should be “Take EXIT 245B...

The correct exit number is on the maps...I am not the best typist!

MO page-19 on Jul 01, 2009 at 11:21:48 pm [Print]
EZ Guide users Rick and Genean Martin recently stopped at the new Missouri visitor centers just West of Conway. They report that "They are redone in Rt 66 themes and are very nice. Signs in front are styled after the Munger Moss neon sign. Unfortunately you can not get to them from Rt 66 but only from the Interstate."

I'd stop by if you happen to be on I-44 here, but I'd rather drive old 66 thru this beautiful area.