On Thursday, I received in the mail from Sharlene Fouser the new Arizona Route 66 passport that is being distributed at tourism offices and businesses along the Mother Road in the state.
Here’s what it looks like, outside and inside:
The passport contains only 20 pages, but includes a short history of the road, trivia, a center map, and listings of attractions for each participating town.
You get a stamp, which are found at specific places on the Mother Road in Arizona, onto selected spots of the passport. There are nine places you have to visit to receive a stamp, plus one of nine places to acquire a “wildcard” stamp.
If you acquire at least seven stamps, you can redeem a prize of a certificate from the Kingman Powerhouse Visitors Center, Flagstaff Visitors Center, or Holbrook Visitors Center. You also can mail the information to the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona.
If you get more than seven stamps, you’re entitled to gifts for each additional stamp. Get all 10, and you become eligible for a grand prize drawing in June 2011.
I think the passport is a really well-done publication and promotional tool, and will spark a lot of additional traveling along Route 66 in Arizona.
You can pick up a passport at these locations.
We just completed our Route 66 road trip and I picked up one of these passports in Holbrook -I’m going to be mailing it in to Kingman, today, actually. It was fun getting the stamps. I managed to get 11 stamps altogether (including the Wild Card stamp), but we didn’t get “prizes” at stamp locations after we had the first seven stamps as I’d read would happen…they just stamped the passport and that’s it. Hmm, perhaps they mail those, I’ll have to wait and see…
Regardless, it was fun!