What a great series, Josh! As the father of adult children, I can guarantee that the memories you created with your dad will be among the most precious either of you will ever have.

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

I agree! It was so special to be able to go on this road trip and have this video to look back on!

@drjeffmcnair

4 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t agree more Dan!

@loisrichard3056

3 жыл бұрын

@@drjeffmcnairmy dad and ME.!!! Your English needs work.

Most route 66'ers skimp when they get into Illinois when starting in California.. you didn't! You showed a great mix of what Illinois has to offer. Woo hoo!

I'm sad to see this journey end!💜🦄🇺🇸

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

For me as well!

I love that you included your Grandma in the video. Family First

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

It was fun to have her explore with us for a half day!

@chickenscratch420ify

4 жыл бұрын

@@ThroughMyLens I really enjoyed watching you and your Old Man do this road trip. It's a dream trip of mine.

All good things must come to an end, the pictures at the end were the best. Thanks for letting us go with you on your trip!

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

I agree, it is bittersweet all over again to get to the end of the videos. Thanks for watching!

Love the Route 66 series. Thank You!

Greetings from Pontiac, Illinois. My hometown of almost 1 year. A beautiful town and great place to live.

Thanks for the Route 66 journey. I did the Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica a few years ago. There is so much to see (even now). It was a nostalgic memory of my trip. I am so glad we did it when we did. I now live in Australia and have Parkinson's Disease. My timing was right. As there is no way I could do it now. Watching your Route 66 Series is now my way of visiting the Iconic Road.

Watched this small series with joy.

@Clintsessentials

3 жыл бұрын

Same.

Thank you so much for these wonderful Trips you both are doing.....living in Europe....its a great way to see the great dies of America❤

Great watching this since I'm the guy who restored the Gemini Giant last May 😎 John's Painting out of Lockport IL.

@allysonh6410

4 жыл бұрын

🙌💯💯🇺🇸🇺🇸

I lived in Dwight for a few years. Been going there since 1988 though. Lived not far from some of the original route 66 and about 50 yards from that gas station in Dwight

Gracias por mostrar la incomparable "ROUTE 66"..tengo mi viaje programado para 2021, y hacer todo su trayecto..Saludos desde Salto..Prov. de Buenos Aires-ARGENTINA.-

Great series, seems like you had a great time with your dad, and that's the best part. Touching on Springfield, IL; the Lincoln library-museum has this cool show thing you can watch where holograms come out of the books as a guy tells you a story, it's really neat. They also have a carillon ( a set of like church bells that is a musical instrument somebody can play) in Washington Park that you can climb and at certain times they have somebody playing it which is very cool. The old state capitol downtown is really neat too and there are some great places to grab food there too.

I enjoyed watching this video of you and your dad. What a beautiful memory.

Just watched the entire series along Route 66. Enjoyed it, thx Josh and Pops!

Thanks, again, for your EXCELLENT Route 66 video series! I enjoy getting my kicks on the route when I can and your series will be among my "go-to" videos when planning a trip or to recall my own good times.

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

So awesome, I am glad you enjoyed it!

Hi from England. I really appreciate the presentation and the quality of your videos. I have been fortunate to be able to travel on much of Route 66 and this brought back happy memories. I look forward to your future travels.

I really loved this series, nice final episode 👌🏼 Greetings from the Netherlands

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

Thank so much, really appreciate the support!

Greetings from Chicago Illinois! 🌭 🍕 🚉 🎡 🧢 ⚾️ 👍

the best part of all that i love is the close relation ship you and your dad. thank you for all your video

Ketchup ~ catsup. And that's how we tell where you are from! Fun night of catsuping / ketchingup UP (yeah, not funny) as I took tomorrow of.

This video series almost made me cry... Hope me and my kids travel the entire 66 route as you did guys!

Hi, I have watched almost all of your videos, and all I wanna say is incredible. United States is such a country with short history but splendid culture, just hoping I can have chance to visit those places in the near future. Cheers

Your videos are featured on Contour on my TV and I did my dream trip of Route 66 because of you. Great!

Hi, I have been planning the Route 66 trip for 25+ years since my study in Texas in the 90's. Thank you for making this tremendous video and sharing to the public. I enjoy this video and take the notes where you stop. Hopefully I can make the trip in the next 2-3 years!

Just binge watched the series. Excellent vlogs. I'm hoping to do the Mother Road in 2022 or 2023, you've inspired me to not lose sight of doing this.

Amazing. Looks like the American trip of a lifetime.

Can't wait to do this for my honeymoon, we will use some of your tips !!

I really enjoyed your trip. My Boyfriend are going to travel Route 66 to Santa Monica. This May 2020. Your trip has been my inspiration! Thanks!

What a awesome trip to do with your dad. I live in Chicago and have not been down Route 66 to the end of Illinois even. This is on my bucket list to ride the whole route 66 . Awesome !!! thanks for posting.

Looks like you had a good trip. We raised 3 kids in Dwight, Illinois. The gas station there was called "Beckers Texaco" & I bought many gallons thru the years. We live in Colorado now but I worked at RR Donnelley & Sons in Dwight (you went by it on your way to Braidwood) then transferred to Colo. Pres Obama as a Ill state senator stopped many times at that corner to McDonalds on his way to Spfld, Ill. That was the 1st stop light out of Chicago. Plus, as a teen I was an Usher at the Rialto Theater in Joliet.

Amazing roadtrip and so much fun to watch! Driving the Route 66 is one of my the biggest dreams. One day... I had to subscribe, thanks for the journey.

I'm French and I took pleasure to follow your beautiful trip!! I did a similar trip in 2015 so I recognized some places you visited! It was a very good serie of videos!

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed the series and that it brought back some good memories!

I live in Illinois and I drive past a lot of this stuff all the time. I really hope to do the whole Route 66 someday!

I drove the Route in April of 2018, loved it and will do it again if I get the chance. I have the same hat your dad has, got it at the Big Texan "Home of the free 72oz steak". I had a burger... :)

I love this trip with your dad!!! My husband our 4 year old son and I are doing st louis to Chicago in 3 weeks super excited!!

Thanks so much for this video series! I know I'll never make the journey myself, and now I feel I won't be missing much because your videos hit all the high spots. Nicely done, guys. Looking forward to more of your travels.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching your route 66 road trip with your Dad. Amazing wonderful memories! Thanks for sharing this epic trip with us! ~Lucy

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

No problem, thanks so much for watching it!

Josh, I've been following you & your dad on your journey. I've been to some of the stops in the west. I've enjoyed the video. Thank you for taking us on your journey.

I’ve enjoyed every single video on these series. I hope you keep on going on adventures with your dad, so you can share with us. And it was awesome that we got to see your cool grandma, too 😁 Great job Josh! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Wow ! I grew up just outside of Joliet and my neighborhood entrance & exit went right unto Route 66. Back in the 60's.

This is one of the best Route 66 video series I've seen! Had a great time traveling along with you and your Dad. I'll be retiring in about a year and this is one of the first trips I plan to make as soon as I am free! I only wish my father could join me. He spent his entire working career as a sign maker in Vermont and he would have loved all the old signs along the route.

It has been a wonderful trip with you guys..thanks so much for the videos..2022 route 66 here i come.

Thanks for the videos Josh. Once again, you save me from a lot of driving.

This was such a great watch. Thanks for sharing your adventures.

Thanks for the video. Thinking about doing a road trip before winter hits.

I just saw all the spots that you showed in this state. Thank you for your work. I learn by seeing so your videos are great for me. I can stop them then play them to make sure that I get the name and places correctly. Thank you so much.

This was awesome - thank you!

Epic, indeed! Thanks!

A fantastic roadtrip......its on my bucket list! Thanks for sharing this with us :)

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

No problem, I hope you get to do it one day as well!

Awesome, I really enjoyed your trip!

Thank you for posting this video.❤️❤️❤️

Woohoo! Illinois at last! Thanks for the wonderful tour! Been with you guys all the way! Awesome time machine ride!

Thanks for doing this series. I am so glad that you were able to do this with your Dad. Not all of us get that opportunity.

@ontherocks23

4 жыл бұрын

And your Grandma, as well. Great memories.

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

I agree, it was special to have my dad and my Grandma both on the videos!

@drjeffmcnair

4 жыл бұрын

@geosciblog your comment is so true. Such a blessing to do the route with Josh!

The current Cozy Dog location is where I used to live in the 80's. Cozy Dog was at the current Walgreens location just to the south. It shared a building with a Dairy Queen.

What an awesome journey! Thanks for taking us along.

Thank you for sharing your journey with us. Been very enjoyable to watch.

Such a cool journey and is a bucket list item for me in my pending retirement. Live about 2 hours east of Detroit in Ontario Canada.

Thanks for this series! I actually clocked it out and to see everything we'd want to it would take us a minimum of 18 or 20 days, and about a $2000 one-way car rental... So I think we'll be living vicariously through your videos for a while still :D

We did the Route thru Illinois in September .... so cool 😎.. we are looking forward to doing Missouri this year .... you give such good info ... thank you

I thoroughly enjoyed all of these videos, thank you!

Enjoyed the route 66 journey with you and your father. Thanks for sharing with all.

I loved all of your Route 66 videos and really, really, REALLY want to make a trip now! Thank you so much for all of the info!

It looks like you had a lot of fun. Thanks for sharing.

Just happened onto this video this morning. I'm originally from Bloomington, Illinois, and not only that, but I drove Route 66 for REAL back in 1966. A friend and I took a new Cadillac and delivered it to a dealer in Phoenix, AZ. They gave us 8 days to get it there. Great memories! Now I'll check out the rest of your Route 66 videos.

New subscriber and plan to start the Route 66 road trip on my 66th birthday in September! We are starting in Chicago and heading west. We are enjoying your videos and will reference them along the way. I will try to update as we travel through the states. We read blogs and bought Jerry McClanahan’s book EZ66 Guide for Travelers. I’m old school so I plan to journal in a notebook (paper and pen not computer). 🤣 Tip to all - travel when you’re young, it gets harder as you age! Happy trails!

Awesome series! Thank you for sharing it all with us!

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

No problem, thanks for following along!

Enjoyed the series thoroughly. It reminded me of the early 80s when I took my dad from the Sacramento area to the northwest where he got to see some of his early homes that he hadn't seen in over 40 years.

My friend lives in Springfield and we have been to most of the places in this video and thanks for showing some that we missed the next time i go back there I'll have to check the ones I missed.

Awesome series!! Thanks for taking the time to share it with everyone. My wife and I hope to make the same trip this year in 2020. Driving from Ohio to Santa Monica and then traveling East.

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

Thats great! I hope you are able to and that you enjoy it!

The best Route 66 series on KZread. Thanks for publishing.

This has been so cool to go on this journey with you both. The big guy you call the muffler man, I have always known as Paul Bunnon and he held and axe. Thank You again for sharing this wonderful journey

My family and I really enjoyed this series. Thank you for posting.

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

No problem, I am glad you enjoyed the series!

Awesome. I would love to travel the full route with my dad

Josh, these are great videos. I am binge watching the entire route 66, and love each one of them. Thanks for posting.

Did you go to the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge? Highly recommended among any Route 66 traveler! Although I understand that you can't always go everywhere on 66, but this classic bridge was one of the connections between MO and IL. This is one of four bridges that carried Route 66 across the Mississippi River. Next time you're out on the Mother Road, you gotta check it out. Plan on a couple of hours because the bridge is a mile long. Great videos, btw! I have traveled the Illinois portion, and I'm always looking for ideas as far as the other states. I've actually made some 66 videos myself (if you're ever bored....)

I downloaded all of your videos on route 66 Thank you it's a dream of mine

Fantastic Road Trip- Thanks for sharing! Safe Travels!

This is and has been so awesome! Thanks for doin what you do!!

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

Thank so much for watching the road trip!

Thank you. It was super

Thanks for the enjoyable trip.

I watched them all and felt like ove traveled it without the effort. Great road trip!

Thank you for making these videos! I love them! Keep up the good work Josh.

I really loved these videos. I drove from Michigan to Phoenix on the 40 and didn't realize I would be so close to Rt 66. Stopped at the big Texan but did not get a chance to stop anywhere else. Getting to see these places was really awesome. We did a lot of road gawking as we came close. Trip was in 2005.

Amazing videos. thank you! I am using them to help plan my solo trip in 2024 from the UK.

Nice. But it was too short. ;-) Loved the Route 66 items like I love most of your videos. Keep up the good work. Greetings from the Netherlands

Well done. I randomly clicked on one of your posts. I enjoyed it so much I subscribed so I could see all of your journey. What you and your dad shared together was great to see. I am a dad to 4 terrific kids and have shared some good road trips with them, nothing like this though. I am watching from Queensland, Australia. Cheers Wayne.

Absolutely loved this!!

Would love to see you do a "Things to do in Chicago" video. I understand you guys did not have all the time in the world, though. Chicago is one of my favorite cities that I've visited. This was such a well done series. Hope it inspires many more to make this road trip!

Love all your visits outwest

SO AMAZING BRO!! Loved this!

I watched all the videos and enjoyed then so much. Thanks for sharing.

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching!

When in Collinsville, you missed Cahokia Mounds. This goes back over 1000 years. You missed out on Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site, about 8 miles northwest of Springfield. You skipped Dixie Truckers' Home. I worked in Braidwood for about 6 months in 1985, so I spent a fair amount of time eating at the Polk-a-Dot Drive Inn and even more quarters in the Centipede video game. You did miss the Braidwood Inn, where I stayed years before Steve Martin and John Candy did. The Launching Pad is in trouble right now and there are threats to destroy the Gemini Giant, so it is good you saw it when you did.

Enjoyed your Route 66 vid series. I did the IL section with my Dad, Mom and Son in Aug. 2001. We enjoyed Collinsville for the town square in addition to the Ketchup bottle water tank. Covered bridges and Frank Lloyd Wright buildings are my two other traveling must-sees and IL is endowed with both. Stopped at the covered bridge outside Springfield too and the FLW Dana-Thomas house state park, one of the best. Had a vegan Cozy Dog in Bob Waldmire’s honor. He was the son of CozyDog’s creator/owner. Most of the Route 66 museums you visited on your trip were created after our trip. Enjoyed getting sirrup from Funk’s Grove, stopping at a FLW bank in Dwight in addition to the gas station. Made a side trip north to Oak Park where we stayed at the FLW Cheney house that was operated as a B&B at the time. This is the house that was designed for the client that was the basis for the best-selling historical novel ‘Loving Frank’. We spent a day touring this Mecca of Prairie architecture including the FLW Home & Studio and deep dish Chicago style pizza (be prepared to wait up to 45 minutes for them to bake). We had an authentic FLW leaky roof experience the next morning after picking up my girlfriend at O’Hare when a thunderstorm came gushing across the rafters of our downstairs room and onto a FLW designed dining table. We ended our Route 66 journey the next morning as we all piled into my Dad’s van to head through Chicago to the end of the Route. One of my favorite historical eating places, Berghoff is right near the end of the route on W. Adams as is the FLW remodeled Rookery building lobby. We continued northeast from here to a family reunion in Michigan. Thanks for bringing us along on your adventure. Memories of our two special trips with my Dad and family came flooding back.

The Catchup bottle was a Catchup water tank. Bottle revolved around tank. This was also the Home of Brooks Beans.

That was an awesome great video, thank you

I really enjoyed this series! Nice that you ended in my home state. I know and have been to several of these stops. I've always wanted to travel route 66.

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Illinois was great for Route 66 with a bunch of fun stops.

Great video dude 🙂👍 you guys finally made it to the end of your travel on route 66 🙂 these places on route 66 look cool and adventurous 😎👍 and the food at all of the restaurants in route 66 look amazing and fantastic👌but anyways it looks like you guys had an amazing time in Illinois and to see all of the Abraham Lincoln historic sites 👍👍👍👍.

We have really enjoyed all of your episodes. Really great that you all get along so well too! Keep up the great work!

@ThroughMyLens

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching them!