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CORVETTE TODAY #144-Drive Your Corvette On Route 66 with 2 Lane America!
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May 8, 2025
I don't know about you, but driving Route 66 has always been on my Bucket List. Now you can with 2 Lane America! Your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, talks with Austin Coop, founder of 2 Lane America about these trips along historic Route 66! Austin talks about what you'll see, how long the trip is, what's included in the cost of the trip and the history of "The Mother Road". He also has other non-Route 66 trips available too! It's a great time to listen or watch this CORVETTE TODAY episode and start planning for Spring and Summer to get your Corvette out on the road.
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on today's show has a very cool job now
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I don't know about you but I've always
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wanted to travel and see route 66. it's
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been on my bucket list for a long time
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well Austin Coop owns a company called
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Tulane America they take people and
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Corvette clubs on the 2400 mile guided
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tour from Chicago all the way to the
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Santa Monica pier in Southern California
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Austin is here to talk more about these
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amazing Journeys Austin welcome to
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Corvette today well hi thank you so much
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for having me it's a pleasure to be here
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Austin tell me the story about how you
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came up with the idea for this business
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yeah it really goes back to when I was a
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little kid growing up in Indiana we had
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a 62 Corvette and I was always hearing
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things about Route 66 but didn't really
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know what it meant and fast forward into
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adulthood end up working for a travel
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magazine where 66 was my beat ended up
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doing guided tours for a large bus
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company international company on 66 and
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then eventually decided I wanted to do
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it on my own I wanted to have more
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control over the itinerary and so we
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started doing Route 66 Car Caravans
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about four years ago and then now past
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couple years we've been doing Route 66
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bus tours as well just as a way for me
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to give the very best experience I can
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for people doing route 66. that's so
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cool how long has Tulane America been in
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existence how many trips do you think
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you've led oh gosh Tulane America has
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been around about five years in terms of
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operating trips we existed before that a
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little bit as a Blog but it's been about
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five years now and then when you include
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my time with previous company and my
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time as a reporter on the road I've done
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Route 66 in some ways shape or form
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probably about 60 times now wow that's
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amazing yeah now I know Tulane America
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also goes to other places than just
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route 66. tell me a little bit more
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about some of the other excursions that
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you do yeah so it's really just been a
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natural progression as people have done
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66 with us they said well we want to go
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on another trip because they made all
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the these great friends they want to
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travel together again so we started
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introducing some new itineraries the
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main second itinerary we have now is the
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Nashville to New Orleans car Caravan I'm
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in the process right now of launching
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two new itineraries that will do a bunch
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of the national parks out west like
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Bryce and Zion arches Canyonlands Grand
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Canyon as well as a New England kind of
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fall colors a leaf peeping car Caravan
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as well and there's also another bus
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tour in the mix that we're trying to get
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launched this year as well that will hit
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all of your really iconic car museums
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here in the Midwest like Indianapolis
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Motor Speedway Henry Ford things like
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that that sounds like a lot of fun too
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I'd love to do that Austin you work with
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a lot of Corvette clubs don't you yeah
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quite a few quite a few talk to me more
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about what you do with the Corvette
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clubs yeah so Corvette clubs often come
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to me with a couple different ideas for
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some of the clubs they just want several
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members to do our car Caravans so they
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want to drive it other times the clubs
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come to me and for whatever reason the
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easiest thing to do for their Club is to
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actually leave the cars at home and come
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on our bus tours but for me that was a
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very natural place for me to start in
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terms of marketing when I first started
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just because like I said my dad's got a
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62 and then he's also got a C5 he
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retired from Borg Warner he was an
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engineer on the C5 wow so Corvettes have
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always been in our family so it was such
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an easy when I was dreaming what I'd
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like to see well I want to see correct
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people on these trips because I've been
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around it that's nice so it was just a
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very natural thing that's really cool
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now you mentioned this and let's expand
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on this a little bit more if a person or
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a group doesn't want to drive their cars
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you do have charted bus tours talk a
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little bit more about that aspect of
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Tulane America yeah so like I said I
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used to work for an international bus
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company and Route 66 was one of the
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routes I did for them I started the
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Caravans because I wanted to do
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something different because I was
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getting feedback that people wanted to
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drive it there just wasn't a really good
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guided tour option for people that
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wanted to drive it now I'm also seeing
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the flip side of that it's a long trip
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it's 2400 miles plus your return trip
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home so for a lot of people whether it
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be the daunting nature of having to
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drive it or just the mileage on their
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cars and things like that the bus tour
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became a really natural progression as
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well so whatever floats your boat if
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driving is important to you then you can
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drive it in our car Caravans if you'd
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rather take a break from the driving and
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ride on the bus the bus tour is almost
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identical definitely the best 66 bus
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itinerary out there the big advantage of
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the bus other than not having to drive
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is you can also get more of that
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information history so I'd say if
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somebody really loves documentaries and
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movies and audio clips and video clips
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and things like that the driving tour
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you get the richness of driving it the
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bus tour you get the richness of the
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history and the immersion into 66. so
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they're both great options very nice
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well buddy let's take our first break
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and when we come back we're going to
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talk more about the mechanics and the
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history of Route 66 I have Austin Coop
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the owner of Tulane America with me here
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833-840-5334 I'm your host Steve Garrett
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with me today is Austin Coop the owner
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of Tulane America and Route 66. in the
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second segment we're going to talk about
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some of the nuts and bolts in the
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specifics Austin first let's give our
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listeners and viewers a history of Route
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66 from all the way back when to present
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day yeah I like to tell people that
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Route 66 really tells the story of
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modern America starts around 1926 in
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some places the road had already been
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built and was just rebadged in other
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places you know they made New Road it
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really starts in 1926 and then over time
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just as America changed Route 66 changed
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so in 1926 really becomes the first
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all-weather all-year highway to get from
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Chicago to La you'll hear people talk
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about it being America's first Highway
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that's not accurate Lincoln Highway some
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of these other roads predate it but it's
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really that one that Finds Its way into
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the Zeitgeist as the iconic road yeah go
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to the novel Grapes of Wrath and John
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Steinbeck that's where the name the
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Mother Road comes from but really it
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tells the story of America you know in
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the 20s up through prohibition it's used
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as a bootlegger route during the Dust
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Bowl it's used as a way to escape the
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Dust Bowl to California during World War
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II it's a way for GIS to get back and
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forth to wherever they're going
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including Clark Gable and then you know
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the summer of love it becomes a way for
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people to head out west in the hippie
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movement so it really kind of tells the
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story of America but it's a road and
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just like the cars changed the road
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changed so originally you're doing it in
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model T's model A's you don't just need
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gas which you need more frequently you
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also need tune-ups you need water you
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need all sorts of things the purpose of
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66 was to go through as many small towns
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as humanly possible because the cars
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needed service so you'd have a small
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town that might have 20 gas stations
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well as the cars get bigger and faster
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and get more range the road gets
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straighter wider faster all the way on
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up until the interstate passes it by the
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road changed just like our cars changed
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so it really is a fascinating look at
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modern America that's really cool now I
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mentioned in the introduction it's a
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2400 mile trip from Chicago to Santa
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Monica talk about that trip and some of
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the towns that you go through as you go
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route 66. yeah so I think it's important
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to start with a lot of people will hear
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Through the Grapevine that oh you know
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none of it's left none of 66 is left
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eighty percent of the original road is
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still in existence nice now some of
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that's gravel which obviously we're not
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going down but our goal with our trips
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is if you were to try to do all the
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remaining road every last bit of it
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including like I said there's three
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different alignments of Route 66. so if
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you're really trying to do all of it it
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would take you about a month and it
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would start to get redundant and maybe
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not that exciting so what we try to do
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on our trips is prioritize when to take
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the interstate if 66 is just a frontage
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road or you're not seeing anything and
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when to take 66 so we try to prioritize
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the best towns prime example there's a
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town here in Illinois called Pontiac
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they've got a car museum they've got a
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Route 66 Museum they've got a Veterans
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Museum they've got a photo gallery
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they've got murals and art I like to
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tell people that it's like one big
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episode of American Pickers lots of old
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cars lots of roadside attractions and
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the small towns and then also the big
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cities a lot of people when they think
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66 they don't think about the cool stuff
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in St Louis Oklahoma City Tulsa
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Albuquerque we run up to Santa Fe okay
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there's lots of great stuff in the big
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cities that we hit as well that's really
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cool now we talked about some of the
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Cities talk about some of the landmarks
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that people will see when they take this
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trip down Route 66. yeah so right out of
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the gate you're going to see a lot of
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the community called Muffler Man or the
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Paul Bunyan statues right so you're
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going to see a lot of that roadside
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catch a lot of those old cars by the
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side of the road we go to a lot of
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vintage filling stations ranging from
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different years different architecture
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Styles if you've seen the movie Cars
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almost everything in the movie Cars is
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based off of real people and real places
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on Route 66 and we go to almost all of
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them a lot of old curio shops and then
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lots of museums some really phenomenal
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car museums history museums the Oklahoma
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City Bombing Memorial we go there that's
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unbelievably moving and in stuff like
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Santa Fe we do a Day Tour up to Santa Fe
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Santa Fe was on Route 66 very very
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briefly so you get a little bit of
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everything no matter what your interests
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are as long as you have a basic interest
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in kind of Americana it's a wonderful
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trip I love the places like the blue
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swallow motel and things like that yeah
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all the neat things the neon lights and
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stuff like that yeah and I've built a
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great relationship with the owners of
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the blue swallow and when we go to
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Tucumcari they actually welcome the
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group show us what a room looks like
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tell us the history of the hotel it's
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just great experiences that you get from
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me having years of working with the same
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people on Route 66. that's really cool
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now when people sign up with Tulane
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America talk about what's covered and
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then what still needs to be paid for by
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the individuals yeah so we try to design
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the trips whether you do the car Caravan
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or the bus tour try to design them to be
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mostly inclusive but still with enough
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freedom and flexibility that you have
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some wiggle room to enjoy yourself on
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our trips we cover all the hotels
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they're all nice hotels I tell people
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I've been doing this too long to stay at
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some nasty Hotel so all the hotels all
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your breakfasts two lunches three
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dinners and then anytime we go to
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something like the Grand Canyon or the
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Oklahoma Route 66 Museum anytime we go
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to an activity that's included as well
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nice there's also lots of other extras
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and little additions that I don't want
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to spoil to surprise some special guests
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that join us for meals and things like
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that but basically whether it's on the
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car Caravan or the bus tour really
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whatever meals are not included is your
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only other expense obviously if you're
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driving in the Caravan your gas yeah and
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then I tell people of course you're
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going to want to budget for lots and
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lots of souvenirs
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smart very smart now obviously it would
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be fun to do this with a Corvette club
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it's more fun that way obviously but
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talk about booking individual trips as
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well as with Club two yeah it's very
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very easy I made the registration
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process simple because that's easier on
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everybody if you want to do it as a club
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I encourage you to email me or call me
18:27
all my contact informations on the
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website and we can talk about group
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rates and stuff like that but the nuts
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and bolts of it basically there's a
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registration form online and you sign up
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and we ask for a 250 per person deposit
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that's fully refundable until 30 days
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before the trip and then 30 days before
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the trip is also when the remaining
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balance is due so we try to keep it very
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very simple so that it's pretty painless
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for everybody nice well Austin let's
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take our final break and when we come
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back we're going to talk about how you
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can book the excursions with Tulane
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and founder of Tulane America going down
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Route 66. Austin in the third and final
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segment I know you talk a lot about
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Corvette clubs but you've also worked
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with other car clubs too I'm sure that
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maybe some Corvette owners have other
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cars like GTOs and Camaros that they're
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part of a group with talk about the cork
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vet clubs that you've worked with and
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toured with Route 66 and then some of
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the non-corpec clubs that you've LED
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down Route 66. yeah so it's always
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interesting how people come to me when
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it first started what I would get is
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maybe a couple that would do the trip in
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their Corvette trip was over they'd go
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back home they'd go to their meeting and
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they would tell everybody about their
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trip it's been progressing that way both
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through the Corvettes we've had it
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through the Thunderbird groups some of
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the Mopar groups some of the Mustang
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clubs and then now what we're seeing as
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we've been around a little bit longer is
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we're seeing entire clubs reserve dates
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or Reserve spots prime example the
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Bluegrass Corvette club out of Lexington
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Kentucky for 2023 they took one of my
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dates and they just said that's ours we
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want every spot on it wow that's hard to
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coordinate and so it takes a little
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while for the clubs to get everybody on
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the same page for a trip and things like
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that but we're working with some clubs
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here in Illinois to do some two three
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day trips just through the state of
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Illinois it's interesting because
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everybody that does the trip loves old
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cars loves all this stuff and so most of
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them have a toy car at home so it's
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interesting whether it's the car Caravan
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or the bus tour within an hour of
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everyone meeting each other you look
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around and everybody's got their phones
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out showing each other what they've got
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in the garage we never make unless a
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club reserves an entire date we never
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say this bus tour is only for Camaro
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people or this car Caravan is only for
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Challenger people because we want to be
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flexible and be inviting to everybody
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it's interesting everybody whether
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they're on the bus or in the car Caravan
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everybody has this common wavelength and
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so it's cool to see everybody just
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become fast friends that's really nice
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now you're already getting booked for
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2023 talk about how many trips you'll
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make on Route 66 and what are the dates
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of those trips that are still available
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yeah so we're doing five car Caravans
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this year and we're doing three bus
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tours the car Caravan one of those dates
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was reserved in its entirety by a
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Corvette club another date roughly 50 of
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it was taken normally we would be about
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50 books this time of year and we're at
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about 80 booked for the car Caravans wow
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so at this point the only car Caravan
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date that still has some space on it
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would be the August 19th through the
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31st one and it's got space for another
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eight to ten cars and then our bus tours
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we basically run one in June one in
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August and one in September and those
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are all starting to fill up but still
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plenty of space for clubs or groups or
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anybody that wanted to hop on those so
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it's been a busy fall here in terms of
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bookings so it's been great that's
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awesome talk about some of the non-route
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66 tours that are planned for 2023 as
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well yep so as I mentioned at the start
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a Nashville to New Orleans car Caravan
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starts in Nashville does Nashville
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Memphis Tupelo Natchez New Orleans all
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of our other trips are much shorter
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they're typically seven to nine days
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long while the Route 66 trip is longer
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distance so it's 13 days but that
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southern tour is great for anybody that
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loves music loves food it's a phenomenal
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trip right now trying to get the
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websites finalized and get everything
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posted for the biggest to Vegas car
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Caravan the Vegas to Vegas Caravan is
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going to do Grand Canyon Monument Valley
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arches rice Zion just some of your best
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national parks out west very easy trip
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again about an eight day or you can
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either drive to Vegas or fly to Vegas do
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the trip start in Vegas and in Vegas
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tack on a couple extra days and in the
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Fall colors trip going to start just
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North of Boston and run up to Bar Harbor
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Maine and back do some of the most
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scenic drives up there go to Ben and
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Jerry's do the Mount Washington Auto
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road so that'll be a great trip as well
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just based on feedback I've been getting
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from people I think both of those trips
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are going to fill up fast gonna try to
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also get the website posted here in the
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coming weeks for Midwest Motorhead bus
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tour that one's a good Tour on a bus
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because the scenery of Northern Illinois
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Central Indiana Southern Michigan it's
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not like driving the Tail of the Dragon
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you know you're just driving through
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cornfields sure but some of the very
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best car museums in the United States
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are in that region that trip's going to
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do a little bit of Route 60 six it's
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going to do Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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Museum Studebaker Museum the court
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Auburn Duesenberg Museum the Henry Ford
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just a great way to knock out all those
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museums in one Fell Swoop I'm kind of
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excited about that one yeah that's
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awesome now if someone wants to reach
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out to you or get more information let's
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talk about how they can reach you and
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what the website is yeah so our website
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is the number two so the numeral two
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lane l-a-n-e america.com and my email is
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Austin tulaneamerica.com all my info's
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on there as well as my phone number and
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tons more information about the daily
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itinerary and I tell people if you're
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poking around on the website and you
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still want more information reach out
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and we can give you some welcome packets
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and and things to read through as well
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and I always tell people if you're
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planning a trip somewhere totally
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different in the United States and you
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just want some advice free advice shoot
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me an email I've traveled all over the
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United States I love planning trips so
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I'm always happy to be a resource for
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people nice also where can people follow
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Tulane America on social media yeah
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we're active on Facebook and Instagram
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Facebook is just the number two lane
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America okay Instagram it's two
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underscore Lane underscore America
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gotcha that sounds good Austin thanks so
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much for taking the time to be on
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Corvette today this is really exciting
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stuff and it's great as we look forward
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to spring and summer to book with you at
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Tulane America well thank you so much
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