Route 66
Picture the scene...Top down with the sun on your face and the wind in your hair. Your favourite song on the radio and you’re cruising along the open road.
A recent survey shows that more than four in five people are choosing more adventurous experiences like road trips than shorter getaways, and taking the epic journey west on Route 66 in the US came top of the list.
The route is considered one of the top three travel experiences that we’d love to have in our lifetimes. In fact it’s right up there with visiting the pyramids in Egypt (47%) and walking along the Great Wall of China (40%).
Totalling 2.448 miles in total, Route 66 is one of the original U.S. highways, starting in Chicago it is considered by 49 per cent of us as more iconic than Land’s End to John o’ Groats (12%), Australia’s Great Ocean Road (8%) and South Africa’s Garden Route (3%) combined.
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