More scenes from the Route 66 Rendezvous September 19, 2007
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Quite a few videos have popped up on YouTube from the recently completed Route 66 Rendezvous in San Bernardino.
Here is a Best of Show vehicle, which is a semi-truck (!):
Here is the Best of Show motorcycle:
And here is the winner of the freestyle division in the burnout contest. Watch a Jeep disappear with all the smoke it creates:
UPDATE: Fixed the top link.
Getting ready in Springfield September 19, 2007
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The sixth annual International Route 66 Mother Road Festival in Springfield, Ill., isn’t until next weekend, but the Springfield Journal-Register is already hyping it up.
A few changes: First, after a two-year hiatus, the sock hop is back in the Prairie Capital Convention Center with Frankie Avalon as the headliner. Tickets are $16 to $26.
As usual, the festival has free entertainment stages in the downtown area. But this time, the stages will be covered, allowing performances to go on except in the very worst of weather.
The festival will still have a car cruise and display. Up to 900 cars are expected for the event.
Long-distance walker update September 19, 2007
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Remember Detlev Henschel, the fellow who was trying to walk east across North America on old trails and highways, including Route 66?
Well, he’s now in Belfast, Maine.
Don’t try this at home September 19, 2007
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Some lads from the U.K. not only visited the Blue Whale on Route 66 in Catoosa, Okla., but decided to strip down to their swimming trunks and dive off the whale’s tail into the spring-fed waters below.
The caretaker, Blaine Davis, was undoubtedly not around at the time; he doesn’t allow swimming. And based on the lack of leaves in the nearby trees, the water probably wasn’t too warm for those blokes, either.
The Blue Whale was a local swimming hole for about 15 years until it was closed to the public. It reopened a few years ago again from sunrise to sunset, but swimming or fishing is highly frowned upon.
