It's a handy way to pre-plan a trip or share driving directions with someone without needing an internet connection.

You can then save those maps or share them with others. Google Maps may be best known for its ability to deliver turn-by-turn directions, but it has another useful purpose: You can use it to create maps on which you can draw routes, lines, and shapes.

Google also allows you to draw lines and shapes on your saved maps in the Your places menu.

To create a route, open 'Your places' in the menu on Google Maps and then choose 'Create Map' on the Maps tab.

You can draw a route on Google Maps that includes a driving, walking, or cycling route and save it or share it with others.

We hope you enjoy the map and can use it on your own adventures. On this site is some of the results of our travels. We also try to include notes and photos to document information about places. As we travel we try to document locations by GPS and then recording on a laptop with mapping software. My wife and I have spent a lot of time traveling and exploring Route 66. Wasn’t planned but I loved driving 66 both directions to visit the boys! My youngest son lived in Alhambra, Ca just off 66 and my oldest son lived in Chicago for a couple of years. I now live in Yukon, OK and Route 66 is Main Street thru town. So we made many trips back and forth on the western half of 66. While we lived in Los Angeles, my grandparents were in Oklahoma. Every building had a rain barrel and collected as much water as possible for washing and cleaning. Most water to the town came in by rail and was distributed by tank trucks. Trivia up until 1976 Ash Fork had no municipal water well. Had great times driving a Willys jeep and shooting my rifle back there as a kid. Had a nice time visiting the old property which included 70+ acres bordering on a national forest.

Last time through I stopped and visited with the current owner who was the same guy that bought it from my dad. He sold the property when I was in high school and a truck stop / cafe was built in front. It could be hazardous to slow down too much on the two lane highway! You just drove off the road onto the gravel parking area and slowed down there. There was no driveway, curb or shoulder to slow down or pull in. We lived in Los Angeles but made business trips during the year and extended trips in the summer. My dad, Herb Martin, built this in the 50’s. More information about the motel is on the Ash Fork page. The photo above is actually a copy of the post card available to guests of Martin’s Motel in Ash Fork AZ.

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