{"id":9041,"date":"2021-04-26T20:54:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T03:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=9041"},"modified":"2021-04-26T20:57:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T03:57:19","slug":"route-66-day-6-homeward-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2021\/04\/26\/route-66-day-6-homeward-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"Route 66 Day 6: Homeward Bound!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Okay, Hen, you know what to do! Take ‘er away:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the morning we were eating at the cool train-based McDonald\u2019s when a train (BNSF) started going by very slowly and quietly. It was either the second or third locomotive that was an old Dash 9 Santa Fe warbonnet.<\/p>

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I attended school from a motel on Route 66, which was a Motel 6, and right next door, there was a \u201cMotel 7.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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We cruised top-down on 66 and turned onto the soon-to-be demolished 100-year-old bridge over the train yard., next to the old Santa Fe Harvey House. We got off the bridge and parked around the outdoor train museum for a while.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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From there we drove to Tehachapi, remarking on 20 Mule Team Road, looking at the airplane storage area, and talking about the Carter Administration and Iran.<\/p>

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In Tehachapi we ate at the Burger Spot & got out of there. After Bakersfield, we stopped at a Shell station to try to clean all the melted Rolos off the floor. <\/p>

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