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Route 66 road trip planner: The best stops along the way
Melanie Haiken
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They call it the Mother Road, a term coined by author John Steinbeck because it carried Dust Bowl refugees west across America. And even though Route 66 no longer exists on America’s highway maps, a drive across the country on the stretches that remain is one of the great American road trips. ....

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