And here’s something to show off to the people back home… get your certificates on Route 66.
We must say in all our excitement at Santa Monica Pier we missed the 66-to-Cali kiosk on Santa Monica Pier.
Where you can get your shiny booklet to prove you completed the 2448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica.
And instead raced to the End of the Trail sign for the must-have selfie.
We did, of course, get the bookend pic in Downtown Chi-Chi too as evidence of the full route.
Now if you see where we’re going here it’s more than we do.
A dead cert
So is it as easy as that then just get a pic at the start point and the terminus and blag the interview?
When the good folk at the 66-to-Cali kiosk ask you for details about your trip including favourite places and people on 66.
What you would do differently the second time and what you were surprised by.
And just trot out Saint Louis, Joplin, Oklahoma City (it looks so pretty), Amarillo, Gallup, Flagstaff, Winona, Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino and Los Angeles.
And particularly if you sing Get Your Kicks.
Because they’ve heard it all before.
A new song for the next 100 years
Which may be why the Route 66 people came up with a new song for the next 100 years.
And darn it, if you’ve only gone and missed the competition and a shot at the $10,000 prize.
The Santa Monica Route 66 Music Contest obviously drew a host of entries confident they could match and even better Bobby Troup’s standard from 1946.
And include even more place names.
With Bart Blackburn triumphing with I Know the Way and like us you can cheat by hopping forward to the 1:37:50 mark.
And in further good news for those who would try and get round the 66-to-Cali kiosk questioneers.
You can always send away for one for around $9.88 to $11 and use all the info you’ve gleaned from us here who have been mingling and singling out info on the Route for you these last few years.