"There's a road I'd like to tell you about...

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Buckingham Fountain, in the heart of Grant Park, is one of the largest fountains in the world. It's design represents Lake Michigan, which it overlooks, with its four featured sea horses honoring the lake's bordering states of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, and Wisconsin. It was dedicated in 1927 and has been welcoming countless visitors to this great city ever since.


The gentlemen in the above photo are facing west and are looking at more than just the camera because Buckingham Fountain also marks what was once the beginning of or, depending on your perspective, the end of another road immortalized in song - Route 66.

The road of Tom Joad. Of Nat King Cole. Of Wyatt and Billy. Of Tod Stiles andBuz Murdock. The Main Street of America. The Will Rogers Highway. The Mother Road. It started here, at the intersection of Columbus Drive and Congress Parkway...


"If you ever plan to motor west..."



This day, though, we planned to motor north so time to remount and take a hit of LSD.