Hey everyone ! I am finally in the US ! The trip went smoothly and I didn't feel the jetlag too much. I arrived in Chicago on Friday afternoon and I stayed there and visited as much as possible on Saturday too. Chicago is amazing, it was great ! Today ( Saturday = Day 3 of the trip), I started to actually drive on Route 66. Looking for the old Rout

From its official designation in 1926 to nowadays, U.S. Highway 66, which we now commonly refer to as “Route 66” has never been ordinary. It was the first highway to link Chicago with Los Angeles, crossing the rivers, plains, mountains, deserts, and canyons of eight states before ending 2448 miles further. Also known as “The Mother Road”,

LES LIEUX DE MÉMOIRE Sous la direction de Pierre Nora Gallimard (Quarto), 1997, 3 tomes, 4751 pages en tout Quoi de commun entre la Marseillaise, le Panthéon, le 14-Juillet et Le Tour de la France par deux enfants ? Quoi de commun entre cet hymne national, ce lieu de sacralisation des grands hommes, cette fête nationale et ce livre de pédagogie

Here we are ! We have crossed Oklahoma all the way through on Route 66 ! Today we drove all the way to Texola, which is the limit between Texas and Oklahoma. Now we are in Norman, at OU (The University of Oklahoma) where we will stay a couple days ! Route 66 was great until the end...We still have the second half (up to Los Angeles) to explore, but

Hello !! Everything is going very well so far...We are going our way nicely nd seeing a lot of great things, places and people ! We crossed the Mississippi on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge and are now in Missouri, the 2nd State on our way to Oklahoma on Route 66 ! So far so good !!! Tout se passe bien pour l'instant !! Nous avancons tranquillement

When I started reading about the history of the road itself, its construction, what it was used for during its life span and how it was quickly replaced by other highways, I found out that there was actually more to it. As a matter of fact the history of the route overlapped on the United States History on a more general scale. The history of Route

I have been fascinated by the United States of America for quite a long time. At first, my fascination had the form of an obsession with the American way of life which I thought was extremely fashionable when compared to the French lifestyle. I started to be interested in the United States at quite an early age through the movies, the TV shows and

The Seyler's Route 66 Road Trip 6 au 26 août 2010 6 août 2010 04h15 Navette Strasbourg – Frankfurt 7h00 Arrivée à Frankfurt 10h40 Avion direction Chicago 12h40 Arrivée Chicago (heure USA) Location de la voiture Installation à l'hôtel Nuit a Chicago 7 août 2010 Chicago • Lake Michigan = Promenade en bateau à privilégier pour une vue d

Still going West ! We are done with the Missouri part of Route 66 ! We crossed the Kansas part in only one day ! Yeah, it's a very short section of Route 66 there ! Today, we are entering the Sooner State : Oklahoma, where there are tones of things to see on Route 66 ! Eh oui, on continue vers l'Ouest ! Nous en avons fini avec le Missouri. Nous avo