The End of the Line

As day 5 dawned, we only had 70 miles to go to get to the end of Route 66. Knowing it was going to take us through some pretty heavy traffic we got an early start. Sure enough, the main thing we got to see on our final morning of the Route 66 drive was this:

 

Lots of beautiful (and very expensive) real estate, and we got to drive on both Sunset and Santa Monica Boulevards.

Finally, after 5 days and 1,500 miles of driving we arrived at our destination. The thing we had come all this way to see. The climax of the trip. The End of Route 66:

That's it. No confetti, no band, no balloons. Just the intersection of Olympic and Lincoln Boulevards in Santa Monica, California. That's the end of Route 66, without so much as a sign to mark it. Fortunately, the guide had prepared us for the anticlimactic nature of the end of the road, and directed us to where the celebration really takes place....