in which country can you drive from east coast to west coast on route 66
no no come on we're not going down there oh everybody's done the show before america
yeah you think right yeah because it's the answer this is the wrong answer okay so we want to drive
from coast to coast there is only one country with a coast to coast route 66 any thoughts
where it might be yes armenia armenia weirdly is not a clarkson because we haven't thought
australia no uh closer to home closer to home than england it's in the uk yes
it is the uk yeah so the a66 which i'm sure you all thought let's take a driving holiday
uh it goes 115 miles coast to coast it is from middlesbrough in the east to workington in the
west it passes through actually lovely places darlington keswick cockermouth
sounds weird doesn't it it does i mean rolls off the tongue of course
you know the way in america people were always like you know what let's give up
our jobs and go on route 66 and take a car and just discover ourselves it doesn't feel
like people would be going like from darlington to cockermouth yeah finding remote jazz clubs
counterculture experimenting with new drugs we've
it's not the same since they shut the little ship
so the a66 in 2018 was named motorway of the year thank you yeah yes so why might it suddenly be
named motorway of the year the a66 was it transitioning did it identify as a motorway
yes weirdly yes that's it for one single mile it identifies as a motorway yeah that's all it takes
it's a 66 brackets m for a single mile and apparently in the great contest to be motorway of
the year that's enough is it i know the american route 66 which we know about it never ran coast to
coast route 66 starts in chicago which is about 700 miles from the atlantic and then it travels
through missouri kansas oklahoma texas and new mexico and arizona all the way to santa monica in
california i actually drove part of route 66 all right with my children and that is a lot of games
that i spy i can tell you it's a long road but in missouri there's a fudge factory called uranus
and they have obviously the usual welcome to uranus life's pretty sweet in uranus it's
yeah oh i need to go and we got divorced a year later
you and the children in the church they're still in uranus
um there are some fabulous things to see on the way there's a wonderful ghost town in
oatman arizona where you can still see one of the former brothels it's called fast fannies
there it is uh here's the thing alan that i discovered uh on the route that i think you would
like which is in cartoozer oklahoma there was a guy whose wife collected miniatures of blue whales
uh he was a retired zookeeper called hugh davis and for their wedding anniversary
he decided to make a blue whale that is 20 foot tall and 80 foot long whoa uh yeah for a wedding
anniversary for a wedding anniversary present yeah how disappointing i know
it took him nearly 3 000 hours to complete imagine the jobs he could have done around the house
route 66 it was almost 62. it doesn't have the same it doesn't have the ring to it doesn't
it rhyme it with kicks can you no you've been rhymer only with poo yeah she called it route 69
although that would have gone from the top to the bottom and back again
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