Keeping You On The Mother Road Volume 2 | Page 5

Introduction HOW THE DREAM OF “Keeping You On The Mother Road ” WAS BORN! One day a friend, Joe Hughes, came to me with a trip that he thought we should go on. “Route 66” he said. So we planned a trip to Joplin where we turned right on the old route. As we travelled Route 66 we thought we would find shops with Route 66 item’s. Finally in Adrian, TX we found just such a place. We looked for a book that would keep us on the route and found one from 1946 and another from the 1990’s but none that had complete and up to date information. As we traveled the “Mother Road” we talked about the type of publication that would be helpful and the sections that would be needed to complete a dream book for Route 66. As we traveled “The Mother Road” again the next year we thought we would remember where the turns would be but we still had a hard time staying on the old route. The need for a Route 66 travel guide became more apparent. Opening By: Dave Emerson 4728 Black Swan Drive • Shawnee, Kansas 66216 Office: 913-631-3600 [email protected] www.motherroadllc.com William Emerson C.F.O Dave Emerson Founder, President & C.E.O. Christi Emerson, Executive Editor Blake Hughes, Story Editior Stories By: Dave Clark, Jim Conkle, C.H. Skip Curtis, Jane Dippel, Brian Emerson, Dave Emerson, Bill Glazier, Ron Hart, Claudia Heller - Correspondent, David Myers- Illinois Historical Society, &&&&