Tue.Sept. 4

We didn't go very far today but we saw lots of Route 66.  We started our day in Victorville Ca. We saw in our Route 66 guide that there was a good Route 66 museum in the old town area of Victorville.  We arrived and found that the museum was closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.  I'm sure they have statistics to prove that very few people show up on those days of the week.

We now headed to San Bernardino and our book told  us to go to the first McDonald's restaurant.  Rick Rappel--eat your heart out.  We know how much you love fast food and the history of the great golden arches.

It turned out to be a very good museum.  It told how the McDonald brothers started the restaurant and later sold it to Ray Kroc who turned it in to what it is today.  There was an interesting McFeud as when Ray Kroc bought the franchise he thought he was getting the original store that we visited today---that was not the case and left Ray furious and vindictive--I'll leave it up to you to guess what he did.

The original McDonald's outlet---oh Hamburger Heaven.

From San Bernardino we headed towards our final destination.

For those that have followed the blog, you may remember that we stopped at the Wigman Motel in Holbrook Arizona and it  looked derelict and shut down.  Well, there is a Wigwam Motel in Rialto Cal.  that has been revitalized and is being used.  We looked around but couldn't find anyone to ask what the rates were, so we took some pictures and moved on.

We peeked in the window of one of the wigwams and they were quite roomy and totally updated to modern standards.  Would have been great to stay for one night.

Vicky--longing to stay in a wigwam!!!!

We saw many interesting relics of Route 66 along the Mother Road today.  We are staying in Pasadena tonight and the road from San Bernardino to Pasadena is like one big city and you don't go that fast.  Many stoplights but lots to see.  We only travelled about 80 miles today but it took until 4:00 p.m. to get to Pasadena with all the stops we made to look at different sights.  We decided to stay in Pasadena for two nights.  We will leave early tomorrow  for Santa Monica and spend the day there.   That's where our dream of travelling Route 66 will end. 

 In the evening we will come back to Pasadena.  On Thursday we'll take our time and head back to Barstow.  We missed a few things we wanted to see on the way to Santa Monica.   On Friday we will make a dash across the Mohave Desert again on I15 to spend a week at the Grandview Resort in Las Vegas.

Look at tomorrow's blog to see what the end of Route 66 looks like.