Some things earn the word "America's" and mean it.
US Route 66 didn't get that name from a committee. It got it from the millions of people who drove it, lived along it, and built their lives around it over decades. This highway was the country's connective tissue before the interstate system arrived to make everything more efficient and less memorable. It belonged to the truck drivers and the road trippers, the migrant workers and the Sunday drivers, the dreamers heading west and the families heading home. No single road in the country has carried more of who we actually are.
