In April 2016, we trailered the Mustang up to Flagstaff to make a run on Route 66.  The Mustang originally fought the idea of going by having a wiper motor start acting up the week before we left, and then suddenly the secondaries on the Holley started flooding the day we were supposed to leave.  It put our planned departure behind, but we finally got on the road.  Northern Arizona has the longest, continuous, driveable length of Route 66 remaining.  Along the way, we picked up my oldest daughter, Angela, in Tucson to join us in our adventure.  I did all the driving up to Flagstaff because my wife, Becky, doesn't have much experience driving with a trailer.  My two girls, Angela and Emmalee, rode in the backseat of the truck and made fun of me.

We got to our hotel in Flagstaff at 2:00am.  My original plan was to drive I-40 to the California border and pickup Route 66 there and drive it back to Flagstaff.  However, due to our late arrival and late wakeup, I instead elected to take the Crookton Road exit off of I-40 about 17 miles east of Seligman and start our Route 66 adventure there.

Route 66 after exiting I-40 at Crookton Road

We headed west towards Seligman and enjoyed the views along the way.  Since my Mustang has been converted to a two-seater, Angela rode along with my for this portion of the drive while Becky and Emmalee followed along in the truck.

More of Route 66 between Crookton Road exit and Seligman

Burma Shave!

After about 20 minutes of driving on Route 66, we entered the town of Seligman, Arizona.  Seligman is considered the birthplace of the Route 66 revival, and lives up to its reputation.

Looking west in Seligman

We stopped and got some ice cream at the Snow Cap Diner in Seligman.  They like to play jokes in here...if you ask for a straw, they offer you a bundle of straw.  If you ask for a spoon, they ask if you want a whole spoon (a spoon with a hole in it), or a half spoon (a spoon cut in half).  Just be prepared!

Snow Cap Diner, Seligman

Parked out front of Snow Cap Diner

My three favorite ladies, Emmalee, Angela, and Becky

Emmalee and Angela

Me with my two lovely daughters

After finishing our root beer floats, we headed west on Route 66 to continue our adventure.

Route 66 between Seligman and Kingman

Route 66 between Seligman and Kingman

Route 66 between Seligman and Kingman

We stopped at the Hackberry Store and looked around a bit.  Bought some souvenirs, took some pictures, and continued west.

Hackberry General Store

Parked out front of the Hackberry Store

Emmalee and Angela enjoying their time together

Before leaving Hackberry, I noticed an old soda machine that dispensed bottles.  The bottles were placed in horizontally at the left side of the machine.  One put his/her money in the machine, opened the door on the left, and removed a bottle of their drink of choice.  When I was a kid, we used to find these machines outside of gas stations.  At night, we would go there with a bottle opener, a cup, and two straws.  We would open the door, open the bottle in the machine without paying for it, and let the contents run into the cup.  We would take the two straws and put them together to make one long straw.  One person would hold the dispenser door open while the other one would put the double straw in the opened bottle in the machine and drink the remainder of the soda in the bottle.  We then would share the cup of soda that we got when we first opened the bottle.  Such criminals and delinquents we were!

Old Pepsi bottle dispenser

Getting ready to continue onward

After we finished in Hackberry, we continued heading west on Route 66 towards the city of Kingman.  We gassed up both vehicles in Kingman, got back on I-40 and went east to Williams.  We at dinner there and had some pie.  We parked the Mustang right outside the window of the restaurant and got a kick out of watching the people check out the car.  Some even took pictures.  We went back to Flagstaff to spend the night and left the next morning.

Westward on Route 66 from Hackberry

Freight train headed east on tracks south of Route 66 between Hackberry and Kingman

All ready to leave Flagstaff back to Southern Arizona

Overall, it was a good weekend for us.  My two daughters are 17 years apart in age, and it was fun watching them interact with each other.  We didn't get to travel as much of the Mother Road as we wanted to, but there's still time to try again.  We definitely have memories of our weekend together.