This book highlights Route 66 in a much different way than your normal travel guide book devoted to this historic road. Over the past 100 years, hundreds of guidebooks have been written about all the various sites you can see, eat at, or sleep in along the route. This book takes a different approach. Twenty cities and towns along the span of Route 66 have been identified as places of historical record that you need to see in more detail than just a quick drive by in your vehicle. To really get a sense of the history and importance of Route 66, you need to stop ever so often and walk the cities and towns along the way. This journey on foot helps you to understand the history and people who have made Route 66 such a part of the growth of our nation. When you walk past a building, hotel, or diner and learn about what made that location famous, you gain a greater understanding of how important Route 66 is. You also get an opportunity to learn about people – whether they be town founders, important merchants, or just plain everyday folks. It’s the stories of these people that make Route 66 so incredibly exciting. This book takes you through a self-guided journey of twenty of the most historic and important places on Route 66. Each chapter in the book allows you to walk portions of the locations that lie closest to, and often sometimes even on the route. I tried to keep most of the walks in the two to four-mile range. This allows you to explore the location in just about an hour or two. As you walk along the journey, you will learn about the people, buildings, and events that made the city what it is today. Rather than just drive by and say “That’s a cool building”, you get the opportunity to learn about the building itself, who did what inside, and why it’s important to the history of the city.