Pre-Departure Dinner
Many thanks to Ken & Carole Davenport of Chicago. They have agreed to host a Dutch Treat dinner Friday evening, June 11th. Best Part: It will be at Del Rhea's Chicken Basket a certified Route 66 Icon serving great food since the 1930's. We plan to get out a mailing to the Chicago area and to our 5th Annual Mother Road Ride/Rally® participants who said they plan to start in Chicago about the dinner. If you are not in those two groups and would like to attend, give us a call at: 817-488-4940 x10.
'My Dad Worked on Route 66!'
Jerry Lawson of
Bonham, TX will be
riding sections of
Route 66 that his
father helped pave.
Back in the 30's
Jerry's father was
employed by the
WPA to work on
Route 66 near Luther, OK. About a mile east of Luther,
Frank & Fay Ward operate a RV Park and
campground. Their 'billboard' is a genuine
early American Dacron teepee that, Frank
told me, they periodically rent to campers.
'Talley Ho!'
Thats the way
Ingeborg 'Inge'
Carlson signed off
her letter to us after
she registered for
The 5th Annual
Mother Road
Ride/Rally®. She
plans to start her
Route 66 run in
Flagstaff, AZ and
ride towards Chicago. Inge says she has 78 years on her life
odometer and 'did Milwaukee and Sturgis the
last two years . . . lots of wet weather last
year! (I'm glad I don't have to keep up with
this lady!)
He Knows the Way to San Jose
Jeff Bray, from San
Jose, CA, plans to
begin The 5th Annual
Mother Road
Ride/Rally® in Los
Angeles and ride towards Chicago. 'I
will probably go as far as St. Louis where I
will drop off and visit family.' Jeff told us
he is a writer, so we'll look forward to his
reports from our favorite road.
Veteran Tip
Bill Mikesell, Elgin, IL, a Rally Repeat Offender (actually, four time loser) called the office with a good tip for Mother Roaders. To beat the heat, Bill says, 'ride early, get off the road in the afternoon.' Bill reported that there was never a prob lem getting a motel room at 2 or 3 in the afternoon, so he eliminated calling ahead and then sweating getting to where you guaranteed the room. He is up and rolling at first light, sometimes before. Temperatures on the open road, in the sun, can easily go over 100 in the desert southwest. Pool-side is a good place to be then. That also means you should think twice about packing aerosol cans. Most of those say 'don't store above 120 degrees' and it can be above that temperature on the road.
Registration Update
The mail on Wednesday, March 31, 1999 brought two registrations so our total sign ups for The 5th Annual Mother Road Ride/Rally® now stands at 34. That is well ahead of the same time last year. Our hunch is that the 'extra added attraction' of the pre-departure party in Chicago will result in additional registrations. The get together will probably also mean that people that have been planning to start 'down route' rather than hassle with metro traffic, will come on in to Chicago. We've blocked rooms in Hinsdale so will just be swinging through the Loop early Saturday morning. That early on a Saturday morning, we don't anticipate any of the weekday Kamikaze drivers to worry about.