![]() I tested Route 66 Navigation’s capabilities from my home in Tucumcari, New Mexico. Here is my screen shot of the app’s home page: ![]() In addition to turn-by-turn directions, the app contains more than 800 points of interest along Route 66. Marian Pavel, CEO of Touch Media, said by email the company hopes to have an Android version of Route 66 Navigation available by early May. (Disclosure: Route 66 News allowed the use of its RSS feed for the News part of the app, and Touch Media provided a free subscription to its navigation capabilities for review purposes.) It can be most easily found by searching for “Route 66 Navigation” in Apple’s app store. released the app on the iTunes store earlier this month. But its many features might lessen the price-tag sting. Route 66 Navigation’s full abilities will cost $49.99 for a yearly subscription - a price that may make some roadies blanch. A Slovakian company has developed the first Route 66 app for iPhones that offers turn-by-turn directions, and an Android version should be ready in the coming weeks. Many sights on and around the route are described, including the infamous "Dead Man's Curve", whose title speaks for itself. We especially like that of Towanda, Illinois, where the nice walk on the road closed to traffic is flanked by scattered, small information poles on each of the eight states traversed. ![]() Interestingly enough, these decommissioned sections become biking or walking trails occasionally featuring small monuments in honor of the Mother Road. At other times, it ends in a cul-de-sac or is simply closed to all traffic on account of its decay. Regardless, we should admit that Route 66 is difficult to follow, cut up in a multitude of successive sections since 1926, and today, interspersed with numerous Interstate stretches. The original route is fairly well preserved, maintained and still practicable in 85% of its length (obtained by combining isolated, non-continuous segments) be it because it still works as an important communication means for locals on its path, or because the region benefits from the tourist craze the route persistently generates and choses to play with the Route-induced nostalgia. ![]() Above: "Route 66" inscription on the asphalt of Marsh Arch Bridge (or Rainbow Bridge). ![]()
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