This typically is a slow time of year for news along Route 66, so I've used the downtime during the holidays to update the main pages here on this website. You'll find recently updated pages for Attractions, Restaurants, Motels, Events, Campgrounds and Bars. The bulk of the work is mostly done but, as usual, it's … Continue reading Programming note

It's a typically slow period for news, so I've spent that time instead doing an annual freshening up of many of the main pages on the Route 66 News site. The pages listing Attractions, Restaurants, Motels, Campgrounds, Bars and Events have had their URLs checked and, if they're bad, replaced with new ones. A few … Continue reading Programming note

This is the time of year, during the tourism off-season, when Route 66 News needs to do some updates in both its page content and its digital motor. So if you see something a little odd here or there, it's just me ... tinkering under the website's hood. Nothing drastic will happen, but these efforts … Continue reading A little tinkering under the hood

If you have noticed Route 66 News acting strangely in the past few days, it's probably because our host is doing long-term maintenance work on its servers. Such work under the hood is necessary, but it occasionally causes odd behavior on the website. In one instance, a longtime contributor's comment inexplicably wound up in the … Continue reading Programming note