Eating Dust: Walkers, Runners, and Others on Foot along Highway 66 (Part 2)

By T. Lindsay Baker
Old Highway 66 experienced a revival starting in the 1990s. Books like Susan Croce Kelly and Quinta Scott’s Route 66: The Highway and Its People in 1990 and Michael Wallis’s Route 66: The Mother Road in 1990 encouraged increasing numbers of people to seek their own Route 66 experiences. From walkers being considered as eccentric exceptions to the rule, it became increasingly common for motorists to observe occasional walkers who intentionally eschewed automobiles for shoe leather. 
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