Pre-pre-planning & Musing on the LA Adventure

I've spent a little time tonight perusing our previous LA Adventure routes and itineraries trying to decide if there's a certain part of Route 66 we might want to focus in on a little more than we have before.

We need to average about 380 miles a day to get to the LA Pen Show on time. I know for many of you that's next to nothing to drive in a day, but we tend to lolligag over breakfast & newspaper in the morning meaning it's never a super early start. Besides which if you start too early, all the cool places to visit aren't open yet! Antique malls and shops rarely open before 9 but you can count on 10 and that's where the old fountain pens are hiding (we hope!). Not to mention all the Route 66 sights and souvenir shops which require a stop.

Ideally, it would be great to plan the overnights so they are in places we haven't stayed before. At the very least, we'll try to visit some places we haven't been to in a few years and hopefully some places we haven't stopped at to explore at all. We've driven Route 66 from various points in Missouri to LA and back eight times now taking anywhere from 2-3 weeks each time. 2010 will be a 2-weeker.

I'm always excited about a little time to re-energize this time of year. Our departure date is less than a month away!

Oh! This font that I'm using is Courier. It's the closest look I could get to old fashioned looking typewriter writing and since this is an old fashioned type of road adventure, it needed an appropriate font to use to document it.

Back to the maps now.