Experiences labelled with 'route 66'
For many Americans and visitors alike, hitting the open road across the United States is a dream idea for a holiday. And what better way to experience this voyage than to drive down historic Route 66, dubbed the Main Street of America or The Mother Road as it was once the United States' main highway. Home of neon signs, decaying truck stops in the middle of nowhere, and all kinds of kitschy cafes, motels and gas stations—historic Route 66 is the ultimate place to experience the best in Americana. Some 2,448 miles long, Route 66 stretches all the way from Chicago in the east to the edge of the Pacific Ocean in Santa Monica, California in the west. Hitting eight states in all, the road ...
Out on the West Texas plains, at the outskirts of a dusty cowtown called Amarillo, sits one of the world's oddest and coolest roadside attractions: the Cadillac Ranch. This public art installation consists of ten antique cars, mostly early model Cadillacs, buried with their noses in the ground and their tail fins high in the air. The cars are splashed in colourful spray-painted messages and pictures, as graffiti is not only tolerated here, it is actively encouraged. The Cadillac Ranch was the brainchild of irreverent Texas millionaire Stanley Marsh III, who owns the land on which the Caddies were buried. The actual installation of the roadside attraction was done in the late 1970s by the avant-garde art firm Ant Farm, which were contracted to put ...
