Route 66-5- in Texas #roadtrip #travel #usa

series on the Route 66 with my parents - the Road Trip of a Lifetime In the summer of 2012 we set up to do the road trip of a lifetime with my parents, driving the famous Route 66 that stretches from Chicago, Illinois, in the Midwest to Los Angeles, California. That was a time where GPS apps on phones were just starting and smartphones were also in their infancy, so we had to rely on paper maps and road signs. We had modern maps as well as facsimile of the original maps. Same thing, filming video required expensive equipment, the video capacity of my smartphone, a Samsung 1 was limited and video was not ubiquitous as it is now with the capable smartphones of late 2020 and on. So I have mainly documented the trip with photos (barely one or 2 video clips from that Samsung 1 or another camera of the era) and fortunately my mother was an avid photographer too and she documented too. After her passing I gathered her photos in a hard drive where I could find all the photos from that trip. She had a different take and she was not driving so she could document while we were driving (my father and I took turn driving). It also means that I am in some of the photos when usually I am the only one documenting so I am barely in the photos. Follow along the road trip of a lifetime where we visit many states of the United States as we drive along. We used my car, a 4-wheel drive Nissan Pathfinder SUV that had very low milage. In this 6th episode, the 5th true episode on Route 66 , we go across the Texas panhandle where we reach mid point, exactly mid way between Chicago and Los Angeles on the Route 66. The first stop in Shamrock had not been great, we were not welcome at all by the local who refused to serve us on the first little cafe where we wanted to have some refreshments and were suspicious on our cameras (in a tourist Route 66 town around a tourist Route 66 attraction). Fortunately the next towns and stops were better and the midpoint cafe people were very welcoming the second day in Texas. Photos taken on Nikon D80 with zoom Tamron SP 10-24 3.5-4.5 and Fuji X10. A couple photos taken with Samsung 1 (the first Samsung smartphone of that era). My mother took her pictures with a Canon Powershot G10. A couple of black and white photographies taken on Lubitel 166 original one made in USSR on either Ilford or Kodak film. #road #trip #travel #route66 #roadtrip #summer #family #drive #driving #USA #america #Oklahoma #river #bridge #memorabilia #vintage #motel #iconic In French / en français : voir premier commentaire, description trop longue pour YouTube Music : Country soil - View Point Won’t you wait for me - Go for Howell Mourning mist - Plain Strolls Not blue - Kailey Dailey Born in the barn from Epidemic Sound