{"id":146,"date":"2015-01-21T20:08:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wanderingadams.com\/?p=146"},"modified":"2015-01-21T20:43:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T20:43:17","slug":"finding-cars-inspiration-on-route-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderingadams.com\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"Finding Cars Inspiration on Route 66"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"IMG_8452\"<\/a>We accepted an offer on the house in December so we put the RV in storage and headed cross country from LA to Atlanta in mid-December to move our household belongings into storage. \u00a0Since we had emptied the house, we decided to head to Chicago to spend Christmas with Lisa’s family. \u00a0 Following a great time there, we needed to make the long trek back to our RV in Acton, California, northeast of LA near Palmdale, CA. \u00a0Hmmm\u2026. Chicago to LA in a car \u2026well, being the “Wandering Adams” and with no deadline to get to LA, we decided to make our way to LA taking some side trips along the famed Mother Road.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_8297\"Our family all enjoys the movie “Cars” so what better way to explore Route 66 than to stop at some of the areas that inspired the movie. \u00a0 Our first stop was in Galena, KS to see Tow Tater which was the vehicle that inspired Tow Mater. \u00a0At the 4 Women on the Route shop we met the original. \u00a0\u00a0In the nearby photo, the truck on the right is the original and they now have a Tow Mater also.<\/p>\n

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The next stop was the Rock Cafe where the owner, Dawn Welch, inspired the writers for the character Sally. \u00a0 Inside, she has some great original memorabilia on the wall with personal notes from Pixar employees.<\/p>\n

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And what Route 66 trip would be complete without a visit to the Cozy Cone Motel. \u00a0The real motel, called the Wigwam Motel, has been a Holbrook, AZ landmark since 1950. \u00a0\"IMG_8343\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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After side trips to the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas we made it back to LA and returned to the RV to prepare for our next adventure to Death Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We accepted an offer on the house in December so we put the RV in storage and headed cross country from LA to Atlanta in mid-December to move our household belongings into storage. \u00a0Since we had emptied the house, we decided to head to Chicago to spend Christmas with Lisa’s family. \u00a0 Following a great … Continue reading Finding Cars Inspiration on Route 66<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanderingadams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanderingadams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanderingadams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanderingadams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanderingadams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wanderingadams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/wanderingadams.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wanderingadams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanderingadams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wanderingadams.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}