• Alina Chau of Ice Cream Monster Toon Cafe is an animator. She recently took a train trip and posted sketches from the Route 66 towns of Williams, Ariz., and Los Angeles. It’s worth surfing the rest of her site for her sketches, too.
• Kipling West of The Seven Deadly Sinners lives in Canada, but sometimes misses the United States. He created a painting called “165 Great Things About America” that hangs in his kitchen. One of those things is the Mother Road. The other 164 things are listed in the main blog entry.
• Photographer Ron Hardesty of ItsAllAboutImages.com has sage advice for those who wish to explore the Mother Road.
• John Felleman of Captain Jack’s Route 66 Adventure wants to embark on a Route 66 journey from end to end, but not in the usual way. Instead of driving, he’s going to fly a Cessna 182 and blog about his adventures. In fact, he just picked up the plane.

The next time you’re hankering for Buffalo wings, go to the Monte Vista Fire Station in Albuquerque.

Yes, Albuquerque.

According to Duke City Fix, a native New Yorker raves about the wings there:

The New Yorker (who has eaten many times at the primordial source of Buffalo wings: the Anchor Bar), likes that the Fire Station Wings aren’t trying to replicate the Frank’s Hot Sauce flavor of Buffalo wings. He found this version “entertaining” and “more flavorful.” He also appreciated that they drained the wings more than they would in New York - where oceanic puddles of grease and oil are the accepted norm.

Monte Vista Fire Station is at 3201 Central Ave. NE, which is Route 66.

The combination of a traffic accident and the weight of ice and snow caused the collapse of the Carthage Route 66 Antique Mall at 1221 Oak St. in Carthage, Mo., earlier this week.

The Joplin (Mo.) Globe reported:

The incident began when a car ran into the building and one of the supporting trusses on the structure failed, according to fire Capt. Tom Nixon.

“It was a combination of the accident and all the weight on the roof,” Nixon said. “The roof came in on the north end of the building, sheared off a gas line to a ceiling furnace and filled the building up with gas.”

At the time of the incident, the only occupant was the owner of the building. Fire crews aired out the building, which will have to stay vacant until repairs are completed, Nixon said.

A photo of the damaged building can be seen here.

Route 66 TV Online had more details about the accident:

The Carthage Route 66 Antique Store and Flea Market suffered major damage tuesday morning when a southbound Hummer, driven by Lim Young, 59, lost control on ice and skidded into the northwest corner of the former auto dealership. With a major structural support gone, the roof collapsed under the weight of ice & snow and a gas line was severed, according to Fire Capt.Tom Nixon. The owner of the building was inside at the time, and neither he nor the driver of the Hummer were injured.

Does it surprise anyone that a Hummer driver lost control of the vehicle?

UPDATE: Here’s a photo from the Carthage Press, before the building started to collapse.

Old Route 66, heading west from Carthage, Mo., to Carterville, Mo., on Dec. 1.

(Photo courtesy of Route 66 TV Online.)