"66 out of Oklahoma City; El Reno and Clinton, going west on 66  Hydro, Elk City, and Texola; and there's an end to Oklahoma. 66 across the Panhandle of Texas. Shamrock and McLean, Conway and Amarillo, the yellow. Wildorado and Vega and Boise, and there's an end of Texas. Tucumcari and Santa Rosa and into the New Mexican mountains to Albuquerque, where the road comes down from Santa Fe. Then down the gorged Rio Grande to Los Lunas and west again on 66 to Gallup, and there the border of New Mexico.

And now the high mountains. Holbrook and Winslow and Flagstaff in the high mountains of Ariizona....then out of the broken sun-rotted mountains of Arizona to the Colorado, with the green reeds on its banks, and that's the end of Arizona. There's California just over the river, and a pretty town to start in. Needles... And 66 goes on over the trrible desert.... [to] Barstow." (Grapes, Chapter 12)