A Route 66 road trip is a unique adventure where each turn reveals a new chapter in the tale of the Mother Road. When you travel this ribbon of asphalt that connects Chicago to Santa Monica, your ...

Since then, Wright says, it has lived many lives: a military road during World War II, and by the 1950s, a popular east-west path for leisure travelers. Wright's first trip along Route 66 was in 2016.

Ten days driving down 'the Mother Road' revealed a country whose obsession with its own past is at odds with its precarious future.