David Myers wrote in the Pulse recently about the current effort to secure National Monument status for much of the land through which historic Route 66 passes.  The “Mother Road” already has been recognized as one of the world’s ten most endangered cultural sites, so Senator Dianne Feinstein’s preservation initiative is both wise and timely.

For many, Route 66 is in their blood – they grew up on the old highway, traveled the road with their parents when they were kids, or, perhaps, even pumped gas at one of the many vintage filling stations at a time when owners actually knew what the term “customer service” meant.

It took me several days to wrap my head around the news of Bob Waldmire’s passing.

Bob gone? Impossible. Bob was always out there somewhere, cruising Route 66 in his Volkswagen Microbus, grinning behind the wheel of his Mustang, or tending his solar oven under an Arizona sky.

It is a funny thing how the passing of time warps and twists history until the perception of the past bears little resemblance to the reality.