Plan the Road Trip of your Life
The Complete Online Route-66 Travel Guide
- Plan your Route 66 Road Trip with our online Travel Guide.
- Learn all about its attractions, top sights, landmarks, what to see and do, where to stay. How to hire a car and book your hotel.
- Use our planning tool to plan the Road Trip of your life!
- Our Travel Guide is "The Best" online source of information for your Route 66 Road Trip.
US Route 66 is a symbol of America, American culture; and a Road Trip along it is a journey into history and nostalgia.
Road Trip Journeys
Travel is a great blend of excitment, discovery and fulfillment. I created Road Trip Journeys to help you plan your vacations, enjoy the process and anticipate the pleasure and the adventure of your holiday trip. I hope that our websites will help you plan the road trips of your lifetime!About Us: Road Trip Journeys
Hi, I am Austin Whittall; I have had my fair share of travel over the years, visiting scores of countries around the world, and I love it. There is still so much to see out there.For the last twenty years (it all began in 2000!) I have been helping people to travel.
My Vision
Roman philosopher Seneca summed it up very clearly: "Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind".Travel whether for work or leisure; solo, with your partner or as a group is always a mind changing experience. I have a passion for travel and I love sharing it, to encourage others to embark on journeys of discovery, new experiences and adventure. My love for Traveling
I guess it began when I was four years old and my parents decided to migrate from Argentina to Australia. In those days it was a long voyage by sea crossing the Atlantic Ocean, changing ocean liners in Europe and then heading Down Under via the Suez Canal and the Indian Ocean.
Mom would mark our route across the vast seas on a colorful world map. It put the size of Earth into perspective and also made me wonder about all those countries on the map... my love traveling began back then and so did my love affair with maps.
My websites and my passion
It began as a hobby in 2000, to help others trek in Patagonia. My first website was www.rotrek.com, and it was a great resource for planning a trekking expedition in Argentina's Patagonia region.In 2010 I created a blog on Ruta 40, an epic highway in Argentina, giving useful tips and info for those who wanted to take a road trip along it, like I have done, several times. A year later it became my www.turismoruta40.com.ar website, which has been visited 5.7 Million times since then.
After doing Road trips with my wife in Southern Europe in 2011, South Africa in 2012, Western US in 2013 and Eastern Europe in 2014 I created www.theroute-66.com. And it has grown far more than I ever expected (5.5 Million visitors).
I enjoy writing and updating my websites, and also finding, cross-checking facts and entertaining information.
By reading about Route 66 and Ruta 40 not only do I learn something new every day, I also travel, in my mind!
About Travel
I adhere to a phrase by Ralph Waldo Emerson written back in 1841, which is always misquoted as follows: "Life is a Journey not a destination"; actually Emerson's thought was far deeper than that; he wrote:
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.A Road Trip is a not only a trip by car along a highway, it is also an internal journey of self discovery. A trip that is full of surprises and positive experiences, memory making events happen during road trips! Savoring every step of the road is what it is all about. My partner Perla and I have embarked on many trips all over the world and we have grown closer with our shared memories and experiences, and also stronger, and, why not, wiser, in the sense of wisdom as conceived by Emerson.
Thanks TheRoute-66.com!
