The Launch of my66roadtrip.com

Welcome to my66roadtrip.com. As long as I’m going to take a road trip, why not invite a few close friends and associates to share in the adventure? By close friends, I mean everyone. I mean you.

It sounds easy – go on a road trip, take a week or two, take a few photos and videos, no problem. Route 66, 66 years old, get a ’66 and take the drive.

That part’s easy. The hard part is sharing it with the world. There’s a YouTube-verse. creating a website, doing blogs, making and editing videos to make a vlog. That whole video thing dives into lighting and taking the video, sound quality, not to mention learning editing software. Make a website. How hard can it be? Except wordpress won’t do what I want. Hello, fiverr.com.

There’s an entire journey behind the journey. Learning the ins and outs of becoming a vlogger. Learning the ins and outs of social media. Creating the content for a website and building the pages.

By the time you read this, I’m over a month into working on what you see here.

The car fanatic, former automotive engineer-turned software Product Manager is becoming a media designer, director, editor and publisher. Some will be interested in that journey. But that’s behind the scenes.

The whole point of this is to do something I love: fun cars and let the world in on it. 50 years of being a car fanatic. Interesting automotive experiences, some painful, many interesting. Favorite cars I’ve owned. A few cool cars I’ve had a hand in engineering. Cars I’ve worked on. Cars I’ve played around with when I owned a used car dealership. And ultimately, the mother of all road trips, Route 66 from Chicago to Santa Monica, the shore of Lake Michigan to the shore of the Pacific Ocean. 2,500 miles and all kinds of interesting sights in between.

Who knows? This journey might continue beyond arriving in Los Angeles. I hope you enjoy the journey too.