Route 66 map/book recomendations

abodyjoe said

oh cool no classes.. hopefully you can get in and out. definatley sounds like its more about the adventure.. sounds liek there will be a lot more stops along the way which is cool... also sounds like ont he "drive" days they will stop like half way or so for the night. i'll bet it sold out in a matter of minutes.

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I signed up about 30 seconds after early registration opened due to being paranoid that it would sell out super fast. I set an alarm and used Time.is - exact time, any time zone to track time right before registration opened. Despite having nearly 2,000 expression of interest forms submitted it still took nearly 3 hours to sell out.

Based on what I've read in various Facebook groups, I think the hang up for a lot of the typical drag and drive crowd is that this one doesn't start and end at the same track. For us regular people with slow cars that's probably going to end up being a good thing as I get the feeling this event is going to attract more of the "D Class" cars and less insanely fast cars than the typical event. That's one of the reasons I picked this one for my first event.

Anyways, don't want to further hijack the thread! Going back to the mobile app idea, I downloaded and plan on using the Ultimate Route 66 Guide:

route66ultimateguide.com/publicsite/index.php/download-2/

It has a companion passport that I'm going to get and try to get as many stamps as I can as a fun side quest. Also there is built in navigation similar to the other app mentioned that apparently leverages the standard maps functionality in the background but is designed to specifically route you down Route 66. It has overall positive (4.6 out of 5) reviews in the Apple app store. Still going to supplement it with a physical map, atlas, research, etc.