Favorite Thing: Scene : Leaving the starting point in Chicago.
“ Why the special bought CD then ?”
“ Well you know I’ve wanted do this trip for a long while now, and I wanted to start it with the most appropriate soundtrack ringing in my ears. Getting my kicks on Route 66”
“The Rolling Stones ?”
“Yeah well, I know I’m more of a Beatles man, but I first heard about this road on this album, it’s just a kind of right..”
“Is it the original one ?”
“Well not really, Chuck Berry and Nat King Cole sang the song as well. I’m not bothered which was the original, and I don't think it was any of that lot. In any case I like this one.”
“Fair enough, bung it in the player and lets eat tarmac”
“It’s about the only thing that works properly on this car”
“Well you rented it !, and what do you mean anyway ? It’s only done about 500 miles”
“I know, I know, a 'Ford Boring', or whatever it’s called. Everything works, it’s just, well, you know, American.
“You rented it !”
“I’d love to have my MG now, wind through the hair and all that, but this is what we are lumbered with. Drives like a bloody sofa, and no gearstick.”
“At least it goes, which is more than you MG does”
“Oh no, that's not fair, it goes alright, it just that it stops a lot too, and then needs mending”
“Then I’d rather be in this car, it’s God knows how many miles to LA”
As the sounds of Mick Jagger and the boys came on the speakers, Chicago with its gridiron pattern of road, overlaid by the rumble of the trains on the loop we finally left - going the wrong way. As Jefferson is now a one-way road heading to the lake shore, we swung back 180 degrees onto Adams and gradually allowed Chicago to slip by as we headed to the suburbs.
Fondest Memory: The lyrics of that song are as follows :
Well if you ever plan to motor west
Just take my way that's the highway that's the best
Get your kicks on Route 66
Well it winds from Chicago to L.A.
More than 2000 miles all the way
Get your kicks on Route 66
Well goes from St. Louie down to Missouri
Oklahoma city looks oh so pretty
You'll see Amarillo and Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona don't forget Winona
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernadino
Would you get hip to this kindly tip
And go take that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66
Well goes from St. Louie down to Missouri
Oklahoma city looks oh so pretty
You'll see Amarillo and Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona don't forget Winona
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernadino
Would you get hip to this kindly tip
And go take that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66
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