Toronto to Hollywood in the year 2012 on Route 66 Chicago to LA,

this is a really exciting road: the Interstat 40 between Reno and Omaha. Stretches of ever-changing landscape, from hills and valleys, deserts, lake-edges, forests, salt lakes, canyons and river-beds.... NICE!!!

Pacific Ocean Coastal Hwy, between Los Angeles and San Francisco, is the US Hwy 101, California State Hwy 1, and is exactly like in the movies. Many parts of this road run very close to the ocean and then climb up mountain areas rising from the oceas, making for great ocean viweing while winding around steep roads and looking down at the waters from above, on the same twisting road.

The Angeles Crest Hwy, also labeled California State Hwy 2, runs through the Angeles National Forest. I can only say that this road serves no commercial or residential purposes, but it must have been built for the movies! The Forest is a series of mountains and this Hwy 2 climbs, winds, rolls down these mountains, hugging the edge of the montains on one side of the road, and overhanging the valleys on the other side. Movie-stuff driving. At the speeds you are permitted to drive on this road, with unmelted snow still on the road side at the top, no gas stations, no rest rooms, this two plus hours of driving was worth the trip.

actually, Route 66 is not much of a road today. It drives through boring flat-land areas, once in a while around dusty mountains and rarely though any truly scenic images. You will see desolate, run-down and boarded up commercial properties and motels that were once-upon-a-time in busy commercial disctricts. It drives through wanna-be oasis of huts and tin-roof housing, with many abandoned parked chevys and ford cars that graced these roads long time ago. Today, it is more a fantasy, an american dream of cruising the roads to the humburger joints and drive-in theatres that are no longer there. It is remniscent lifestyle. Some of the towns look like that are fighting the inevitable and losing battle to non-existence. One or two, like Flagstaff, and Williams, have the Grand Canyon to thank for. A lonely road, it is. Only in America, not quite Canadian, but mostly Mexican.