Zumo 550 and Route 66.

[Chieftain]

Forgive me in advance if this question has been asked before. I have a Zumo 550 loaded with V9 European mapping.
I intend to do a charity motorcycle ride from Chicago to Santa Monica California along the old Route 66.
Now route 66 has long been bypassed by modern interstate. My question is: is it possible to create a route of about 2500 miles which follows as closely as possible the original 66 and overlay it onto a map of northern America. I have purchased mapping of northern America and intend to load it onto a SD card.
Thanks in advance.
J

 

[half_empty1]

i did it last year with my pda running destinator software. if id had my 2610, i would have created waypoints all along route 66 and then just calculate the route on the pc and hopefully it will follow most of route 66 the download it to the 2610. i finished the route near las vegas and thenheaded north.

what i found is that once you get on route 66, you end up coming to intersections and the only way to continue driving is to get on the interstates as the part of route 66 that you were driving along just disappears!

as long as you try and get to the citys/towns that route 66 originally went through you should manage to ride quite a good bit of route 66.

chicago, springfield, st louis, tulsa, oklahoma city, amarillo, gallup, holbrook, needles, los angeles.

what a great time i had, have fun, your gonna love it

 

[Chieftain]

i did it last year with my pda running destinator software, so cant give any advice regarding your zumo. i finished the route near las vegas and thenheaded north.

what i found is that once you get on route 66, you end up coming to intersections and the only way to continue driving is to get on the interstates as the part of route 66 that you were driving along just disappears!

as long as you try and get to the citys/towns that route 66 originally went through you should manage to ride quite a good bit of route 66.

chicago, springfield, st louis, tulsa, oklahoma city, amarillo, gallup, holbrook, needles, los angeles.

what a great time i had, have fun, your gonna love it

Thats the point half empty. I did it myself as part of a group last october. Old 66 is very fragmented and I'd like to be able to plot the original 66 on the zumo. I'd like to do it as a route but I have'nt a clue how to do this. Its easy enough to get between the towns and cities on the route but to stay faithful to the original route is a bit (lot) harder.

 

[White Rabbit]

Lonley Planet Guide to R66

I did about 1500 miles of it last year using the Lonley Planet guide. I found it very usefull as it gave turn by turn instructions. Most of the way I just used the R66 signs as shown by Half empty. The begining of R66 is very well signed but as you get over half way the signs tend to get a bit thin on the ground. The other adv of the L.P. book is it gave you waht to see on the way.

The biggest dispointment to me was the lack of 'End R66' in Santa Monica, when you start in Chicargo there is the appropriate sign (as with the beggining of most of the US routes) but it was a bit of a downer not finding the 'End R66'.

Hope you enjoy, felt a bit strange that R66 is talked about/ridden/known about by more non US citizens that the US themselves.

Harvey

PS had my hair cut behind the Joe and Aggies Cafe. Great old fella, opened up just for me.

 

[theEnglishman]

But did you get your kicks on Route 66?

I think we should be told.........

 

[Putneybiker]

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