My Route 66 Road Trip 2019 “kicks” off at the End of the Trail where Route 66 ends on the Santa Monica Pier in Santa Monica, California.
Here’s the Santa Monica Pier in the distance with the Pacific Ocean in the background. I took this photo from the bluff overlooking the Pier and beyond. At this point, my sister, Gail, and I were really excited to find the Pier entrance.
We walked along a crowded sidewalk and around a bunch of trees to arrive at the Pier Entrance. We strolled under it and joined a crowd of folks heading down the hill toward the Ferris wheel and the Pier’s end.
Finally, after getting crushed by the crowd we found the Route 66 End of the Trail sign along with hundreds of other folks! Our new friend Francisco from Mexico is pointing up to the sign looking as excited as we did! Even though I wrote about Route 66 in my historical fiction chapter books for 8 and up about the 1950s, and I’d driven on the Mother Road over the years, I’d never made it to this spot!
About CA Hartnell
CA Hartnell is an award-winning author who specializes in kids books set in the 1950s. Her adventures growing up in El Monte, California in the 1950s inspired her set of children’s books: Scary Spring, Sinister Summer, Ferocious Fall, and Wild Winter. She now resides in Las Vegas, where she continues to adventure and inspire everyone around her. Get her popular kids books here.
