Paul McCartney Does Route 66
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 08.11.08 | 12:11 PM ET
The legendary Beatle and his girlfriend Nancy Shevell are apparently motoring west, driving a green ‘89 Ford Bronco with New York plates, and they’re leaving a wake of amazed fellow travelers as they head from Joplin, Missouri to Oklahoma City to Amarillo and so forth. What have we learned about Paul’s road tripping skills?
He uses old school maps. He braved the bathroom at a Circle K. For dinner in Oklahoma City, he and Shevell ate spinach quiche and fresh field greens with avocado and hazelnut vinaigrette. That’s not quite a road trippy meal, but, hey, he is a vegetarian.
Looks like he’s making friends, too. In Amarillo, he reportedly serenaded a 4-month-old boy named Jude at the Ambassador Hotel.
Very sweet.
Safe travels the rest of the way, Paul. But if you need to change a tire or, say, evade some bumbling kidnappers as you make your way to Santa Monica, I hope you learned these skills from your late and much-missed bandmate, George Harrison.
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Photo of Phillips Route 66 sign by Bear69designs, via Flickr (Creative Commons)