In the summer of 2006, I spent three days exploring and photographing the remnants of Route 66 in Northern Arizona. From the 1920s to the 1950s, Route 66 was the main road from Chicago to California – the “mother road” of what would eventually become the US Interstate Highway system. It was the coming of the Interstate itself that doomed Route 66 to oblivion, but traces of it can be still be seen in the northern reaches of Arizona, as well as in California’s Mohave Desert, which I visited earlier this year: ... (more)