The End, at least for me

Well, last night I said good-bye to my great tour friends. It was very sad for me to realize that my adventure was now over - although it was great to be back home after 6,328 miles of fun. To catch you up, here are a few pictures from Day 18 - Williams, AZ to Victorville, CA.

The Rusty Bolt in Seligman, AZ. A fun town and we got to talk with the barber that has been the spokesman for Route 66 and is responisible for its re-juvination.


This is the old gas station at Hackenberry, AZ. Just too much stuff to take in.

This is a reproduction gas station on Sitgreaves Pass in CA. This part of the road was very narrow and curvy and went way up the mountain and then down again - the best part of the Route 66 for us driver people. If you remember the Long, Long Trailer movie it is where Lucy put rocks in the trailer and they had a scarry drive over the summit. It was over 115 degrees when this picture was taken- very, very hot.

Here are a few pictures form the last day from Victorville, CA to Santa Monica, CA. We were joined by Sue Cowling from the So Cal New Beetle club on Foothill Blvd and Luke Hall came down from Ojai, CA to help us enjoy the trip from Santa Monica up the coast to Santa Barbara, CA.

The Wigwam Hotel on Foothill Blvd in San Bernadino, CA. This is the sister hotel with the one in Holbrook, AZ.

Lunch stop at the Classic Car Restaraunt in Glendora, CA.

The end of Route 66 at Santa Monica, CA. The "Easterners" got their first look at the Pacific Ocean.

Now we are officially done with the Route 66 portion, but some stayed an extra day to see CA.

We drove North up HWY 1 along the beach to the Hearst Castle.

Bugs along the Pacific Ocean, near San Simieon, CA.

We all enjoyed a great dinner at Richard Grasick's house in Lompoc, CA (they joined us in Roswell). A great way to wind down and say our good-byes.

Some of our group are now going back accross country to home and I hope they have a great, and safe, trip. Give me a couple of days to collect my thoughts and I'll post my version of what happened. I now have to write a couple of articles for some magazines and I'll keep you posted if they are published. If you have time go through all the pictures from everyone, you can see a lot of the fun. It was amazing and even better than I every imagined and completing this dream with my New Beetle friends has just blew me away. And we have unofficially raised several thousand dollars for the National Breast Cancer Foundation (I'll post the end result once Motel 6 and I get together.) We can all be proud to be a part of our New Beetle group.