Route 66 is just one of the highways that features in “On The Road,” the Jack Kerouac book that introduced so many people to white-line wanderlust. More than anything written about the iconic highway, ...

The “Mother Road” was what John Steinbeck called it in “The Grapes of Wrath”; the Joads drove west from Oklahoma in search of a better life in California. Nat King Cole sang that it was where you “get ...