{"id":1218,"date":"2016-05-24T05:37:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journeyman.ch\/wordpress\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2016-05-24T05:37:53","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T03:37:53","slug":"new-mexico-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journeyman.ch\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/24\/new-mexico-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico & Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

To drive once on the famous route 66 was always a dream to me. I had to look on different maps to finally find the original route. The problem here is that most part of the old route runs along the Interstate 40 (I-40) Motorway.
\nIt was not really like I thought it would be. But you can feel a little bit the freedom of the \u201cmother road\u201d, if you ignore the 6 lane interstate with all the trucks just a few meters away. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

After a detour visiting the old town Santa Fe (by the way, the capital of New Mexico, founded in 1610 with the full name: La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de As\u00eds<\/em>) with his Spanish Pueblo look buildings my path led me back to the mother road.
\nAfter a lot of different small towns like Edgewood and Moriarty I visited in Santa Rosa the famous Route 66 Auto Museum and the Blue Hole (a 24m deep spring with constant 18\u00b0C and an inflow of 11\u2019000 litre fresh water per minute, mostly used for scuba dive trainings).
\nMy path continued to Tucumcari, Glenrio (on the border of NM\/TX) and the exact midpoint of the Route 66 in Adrian. Near Amarillo I stopped at the well-known Cadillac Ranch (a public art installation) and in Shamrock at the U-Drop Inn (known from the Pixar animated movie \u201cCars\u201d).<\/p>\n

Overview of the route:<\/p>\n