This tour designed especially for you by Carolina Tours.

Web site: www.CaroTours.com

June 4-24, 2020

Well, if you ever plan to motor west Jack, take my way, it's the highway, that's the best

Get your kicks on Route 66 Well, it winds from Chicago to L.A.

More than two-thousand miles all the way Get your kicks on Route 66

Well, it goes through St. Louis Get your kicks on Route 66

Well, it goes from St Louis, Joplin, Missouri Oklahoma City looks ooh so pretty

You'll see Amarillo and Gallup, New Mexico Flagstaff, Arizona don't forget Winona

Kingsman, Barstaw, San Bernadino

Would you get hip to this kindly tip And take that California trip?

Get your kicks on Route 66 Get your kicks on Route 66!

TO PARAPHRASE CHUCK BERRY’S LYRICS… JOIN US AS WE PICK UP ROUTE 66 IN SAINT LOUIS, MO, (WHERE WE ENDED OUR

INTRODUCTORY TOUR OF ROUTE 66 IN 2019)!

IN 2020, WE WILL FOLLOW ‘THE MOTHER ROAD’ ALL THE WAY TO THE PACIFIC AND

THEN SPEND 2 NIGHTS IN SANTA MONICA RIGHT ON THE PACIFIC OCEAN!

THERE WILL BE MANY HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDED ON OUR ADVENTURE…

STOPS ALONG THE MOTHER ROAD, PLUS VISITS TO FAMILIAR AND PERHAPS,

NOT SO FAMILIAR, SITES IN ROUTE!

WE KNOW YOU WILL ENJOY HAVING OUR ROUTE 66 ‘EXPERT’ JOIN US IN SAINT LOUIS.

DAVID HAS MANY EXCURSIONS PLANNED FOR US AS WE TRAVEL

ROUTE 66 TO SANTA MONICA; AND AS YOU WILL SEE, WE HAVE

ADDED MANY HISTORIC SITES AND SCENIC STOPS, TOO!

WITH YOUR COMFORT AND ENJOYMENT IN MIND (AS ALWAYS!)

WE ARE LIMITING THE NUMBER OF FOLKS ON THIS TOUR TO

ONLY 23—EACH OF YOU WILL HAVE YOUR OWN

‘DOUBLE’ SEAT ON OUR MOTORCOACH!!

CAROLINA TOURS 455 LONG'S POND ROAD LEXINGTON, SC 29073

Phone: 803-356-3000 or Toll-free 1-888-74TOURS Fax: 803-359-2715 Email: CaroTours@aol.com

Route 66…St. Louis to Santa Monica Preliminary Itinerary

WE WILL TRAVEL THROUGH 18 STATES ON THIS TRIP…

YOU COULD EVEN CALL IT OUR 3RD ATLANTIC TO PACIFIC TOUR!

Our travel itinerary will include North

Carolina, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas,

New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah,

Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and

Kentucky...before returning to Tennessee, North Carolina

on the way home to South Carolina. Enjoy a relaxed

schedule, 2 nights in Williams, AZ, 2 nights in Santa

Monica, CA, and 2 nights in Salt Lake City! I have listed

below each day’s travel schedule and the hotels we plan to

use on our Route 66 adventure. As you can see, the

number of driving hours each day is very limited...to give

us maximum time for sightseeing and for travel on the

’Mother Road!’ Also, notice the hotels where we will be

staying...another example of ’something special’ that we feel is an integral part of any Carolina Tours’ trip!

THIS WILL BE ANOTHER AMAZING JOURNEY TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN AND BACK AGAIN

WITH UNFORGETTABLE SIGHTS THROUGHOUT.

Day 1, June 4

Dutch Square to Embassy Suites, Nashville, TN 6 1/4 driving hours change to Central Time Zone

Day 2, June 5

Nashville to Drury Plaza Hotel, St. Louis, MO 4 1/4 driving hours

Day 3, June 6

St. Louis to Rt. 66 Best Western, Springfield, MO 3 1/4 driving hours

Day 4, June 7

Springfield, MO to Embassy Suites, Tulsa, OK 2 1/2 driving hours

Day 5, June 8

Tulsa, OK to Embassy Suites, Amarillo, TX 5 1/4 driving hours

Day 6, June 9

Amarillo to El Dorado Hotel, Santa Fe, NM 4 driving hours change to Mountain Time Zone

Day 7, June 10

Santa Fe to Hampton Inn, Gallup, NM 3 driving hours

Day 8 & 9, June 11-12

Gallup, NM to Grand Canyon Railway Hotel, Williams, AZ 3 driving hours

Day 10, June 13

Williams, AZ to Hampton Inn, Barstow, CA 4 1/2 driving hours change to Pacific Time

Days 11 & 12, June 14-15

Barstow, CA to Shore Hotel, Santa Monica, CA 2 driving hours

Day 13, June 16

Santa Monica to Embassy Suites Riverfront Sacramento 5 1/2 driving hours

Day 14, June 17

Sacramento to Hampton Inn, Elko, NV 6 driving hours

Day 15 & 16, June 18-19

Elko, NV to Little America Hotel, Salt Lake City, UT 3 driving hours return to Mountain Time

Day 17, June 20

Salt Lake City to Little America Hotel, Cheyenne, WY 6 driving hours

Day 18, June 21

Cheyenne, WY to Hampton Inn, Omaha, NE 6 3/4 driving hours return to Central Time

Day 19, June 22

Omaha, NE to Hampton Inn, Peoria, IL 5 1/2 driving hours

Day 20, June 23

Peoria to Belterra Hotel & Casino, Florence, IN 5 driving hours return to Eastern Time

Day 21, June 24

Home! 7 1/4 driving hours to DS, 8 3/4 driving hours

to Summerville.

SOME ROUTE 66 HIGHLIGHTS

Devils Elbow, MO

Munson Munger Motel, MO

Worlds Largest Rocker, MO

Uranus, MO

The Cut, MO

Gay Parita, MO

Cars on Main, Galena, KS

Marsh Bridge, KS

Catoosa Blue Whale, OK

Arcadia, Round Barn, OK

Arcadia, Pops on Rt. 66, OK

OKC Stockyards, OK

Route 66 Museum, OK

OK Stockyard Café, OK

Art Deco station, Shamrock, TX

Leaning Watertower of Groom

County, TX

Midpoint Café, Adrian, TX (pie stop!)

Cadillac Ranch, TX

Motel Row, Gallup, NM

El Rancho Motel, Gallup, NM

Neon Hotel Queens & Blue Swallow Motel

Tucamari, NM

Hackberry General Store, AZ

Snow Cap Drive Inn, AZ

Winslow, AZ (“Standing on the Corner”)

Original McDonald’s, CA

Roy’s Café, CA

Desert Lions, CA

Rt. 66 Mother Road Museum

(Harvey House), CA

Wigwam Motel—in route to LA, CA

Santa Monica Pier, CA

Route 66…St. Louis to Santa Monica Preliminary Itinerary

(Atlantic to Pacific, III)

Route 66…St. Louis to Santa Monica Preliminary Itinerary

(Atlantic to Pacific, III)

ADDITIONAL TOUR HIGHLIGHTS Purina Farms, MO

Trail of Tears National Historic Site, MO

Tulsa City Tour, OK

View Express Clydesdales, OK

Palo Duro Canyon State Park, TX

Cherokee Trading Post, TX

Old Town Albuquerque, NM

Acoma Pueblo, NM

Walking tour of Santa Fe, NM

Navaho Code Talkers Museum, NM

Zuni & Navajo jewelry, NM

Grand Canyon South Rim, AZ

Grand Canyon Railway train

from Williams to GC, AZ

Painted Desert, AZ

Petrified Forest, AZ

Rusty Boat Gift Shop, AZ

Grand Canyons Caverns, AZ

Meteor Crater, AZ

Sightseeing in Los Angeles, CA

Sunset Strip

LaBrea Tar Pits

Rodeo Drive

Hollywood Bowl

Stars’ Walk of Fame

Highlights on our return to the East coast:

Tour of Sacramento, CA

Lake Tahoe, NV

Reno, NV

California Trail Historic Interpretive Center,

Elko, NV

Tour of Salt Lake City, UT

Mormon Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, UT

Machine Shed, IA

River Cruise on the Illinois River, Peoria, IA

Tour of the Indianapolis Speedway, IN

Note:

This is a preliminary listing of tour highlights.

Closings, plus changes due to weather and

traffic constraints are always a possibility. We will

adjust as needed and your final itinerary should

reflect any changes.

SCENIC VIEWS & HIGHLIGHTS

Great Smoky Mountains

Cherokee National Forest

Blue Ridge Mountains

Mississippi River

Ozark Mountains

Big Piney River

Arkansas River

Canadian River

Palo Duro State Park

Great Plains of Texas

Texas Panhandle

Rocky Mountains

Sangre de Cristo Mountains

Wheeler Peak

Sandia Crest

Kaibab National Forest

Grand Canyon

Colorado River

Mojave Desert

San Bernardino National Forest

San Gabriel Mountains

Sierra Nevada Mountain Range

Coastal Range, CA

Cibola National Forest

San Joaquin Valley

Channel Islands

Pacific Ocean

San Pedro Channel

Angeles National Forest

Los Padres National Forest

Sacramento River

Lake Tahoe

Great Basin

Humboldt River

Wasatch Mountains

Great Salt Lake

Medicine Bow Mountains

Great Divide Basin

Platte River

Illinois River

And many, many more scenic sites!

Route 66…St. Louis to Santa Monica Preliminary Itinerary

(Atlantic to Pacific, III)

Cost

$6399 pp/double $8799 single

(Triple & Quad rates available

upon request.)

DEPOSIT: $400 DUE ASAP

2ND DEPOSIT: $1000 due Dec. 1, 2019

3rd DEPOSIT:

$1000 due February 1, 2020 BALANCE DUE: April 15, 2020

Carolina Tours will purchase trip cancellation/interruption insur-

ance on your behalf for this

History of Route 66 The romance of Route 66 continues to captivate people around the

world. Running between Chicago and Los Angeles, “over two thousand

miles all the way” in the words of the popular R&B anthem, this

legendary old road passes through the heart of the United States on a

diagonal trip that takes in some of the country’s most archetypal

roadside scenes. If you’re looking for great displays of neon signs, rusty

middle-of-nowhere truck stops, or kitschy Americana, do as the song

says and “get your kicks on Route 66.” Perhaps the most compelling

reason to follow Route 66 is to experience the road’s ingrained time line of contemporary America. Before it was called

Route 66, and long before it was even paved in 1926, this corridor was traversed by the National Old Trails Highway,

one of the country’s first transcontinental highways. For three decades before and after World War II, Route 66 earned

the title “Main Street of America” because it wound through small towns across the Midwest and Southwest,

lined by hundreds of cafés, motels, gas stations, and tourist attractions.

During the Great Depression, hundreds of thousands of farm families, displaced from the Dust Bowl, made their way

west along Route 66 to California, following what John Steinbeck called “The Mother Road” in his vivid portrait, The

Grapes of Wrath. After World War II, many thousands more expressed their upward mobility by leaving the industrial

East, bound for good jobs in the suburban idyll of Southern California—again following Route 66, which came to

embody the demographic shift from the Rust Belt to the Sun Belt.

Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing gradually over the next 25 years, old Route 66 was bypassed section by

section as the high-speed Interstate highways were completed. Finally, after the last stretch of freeway was completed in

1984, Route 66 was officially decommissioned. The old route is now designated Historic Route 66.

Though it is no longer a main route across the country, Route 66 has retained its mystique in part due to the very same

effective hype, hucksterism, and boosterism that animated it through its half-century heyday. It was a Route 66 sight, the

marvelous Meramec Caverns, that gave the world the bumper sticker. And it was here on Route 66 that the great

American driving vacation first flourished. Billboards and giant statues along the highway still hawk a baffling array of

roadside attractions, tempting passing travelers to view giant blue whales, to see live rattlesnakes and other wild

creatures on display in roadside menageries, or to stay at “Tucumcari Tonite.”

Route 66 passes through a marvelous cross-section of American scenes, from the cornfields of Illinois all the way to the

golden sands and sunshine of Los Angeles, passing by such diverse environs as the Grand Canyon, the Native American

communities of the desert Southwest, the small-town Midwest heartlands of Oklahoma and the Ozarks, and the city

streets of St. Louis and Los Angeles. Whether you are motivated by an interest in history or feel a nostalgic yearning for

the “good old days,” Route 66 has come to represent the amazing diversity of people and landscapes that line its path.

Route 66 (Atlantic to Pacific, III) will offer you an unforgettable journey into America, then and now.

No flyer can do justice to this

tour...some things just have to be

taken on faith! Please know that we

include all the components that make

our tours special…

2 nights in as many of our destinations as possible,

upscale accommodations, 22+ meals included,

fascinating sights, many, many inclusions/

admissions, tours, etc…and, as always,

“something special!”

Having our own ‘Route 66 expert’ who will

accompany us across the USA as we follow the

Mother Road will make this tour one of our ‘best’!

This is one tour you will never forget!