Here's a "Blogspot" from a New Beetle list.  They're planning a route 66
caravan this year.

http://route-66-tour.blogspot.com/

Mike

Courtney Hook wrote:
> Man, I LOVE little towns like that, that are 30 yrs ago. The great little
> mom and pop restaurants and motels are what I dig. Anybody can drive the
> slab and stay at Marriots. The Route 66 thing really intrigues me. The more
> info the better I say!!
> Courtney
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kim Brennan" <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 4:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Friday Curiousity
>
>
>> Semantics Joy. Those aren't lonely towns, those are Ghost towns....
>>
>> Folks are real friendly there, as visitors are a surprise.
>>
>> On Feb 2, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Joy Hecht wrote:
>>
>>> I did some of it in New Mexico a while back - a year ago, I guess.
>>> It seemed
>>> to me like a fair bit of driving slowly through desert and through
>>> the very
>>> dreary sides of some rather sad towns that have been have been
>>> bypassed by
>>> the interstate.  Plus a few strips where there are rows of cheap
>>> motels
>>> trying to hype I-66.  In Albuquerque it is the main drag in a
>>> fairly cool
>>> neighborhood (you know, cute stores, good coffee, free wifi, easy
>>> area to
>>> stealth camp - ask me how I know! :-) but otherwise not so
>>> interesting.
>>>
>>> But maybe that's just the desert parts of it?
>>>
>