Watching the TV coverage of the Iowa Caucuses last night made me think about a nice trip we took across the state on June 7-8 2004 on old 2-lane U.S. 34.
I was intrigued by U.S. 34, since it shared pavement in Chicago with Route 66. From the mid 1930s until sometime in the 1970s, 66 and 34 were cosigned along Jackson Boulevard, Adams Street, and Ogden Avenue within Chicago, and along Ogden through Cicero and Berwyn. The two routes parted company at Ogden and Harlem. Today, U.S. 34 starts at Harlem and heads west on Ogden Avenue through Chicago’s western suburbs and across Illinois. It enters Iowa at Burlington and cuts across the southern part of the state to Cedar Rapids and crosses into Omaha, Nebraska.
Our trip on 34 ended there in Omaha, since the purpose of our trip was to get to the 2004 Route 66 festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma, so from Omaha we headed south. Someday we will complete our 34 trip across Nebraska and ending at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.
I have 11 photos posted on my flickr site, click on the link below to see them all:
http://www.flickr.com/gp/20216019@N02/5vhEGS
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