When I was a kid in the 1950's we would go from Hayward Ca down 99 to BAkersfield then to Barstow,Ca. Then we would pick up "Route 66" and go through Needles, Ca. then up through Oatman, Az (where they have the wild burros that wander through town) New Mexico, Texas where we turned left, went up through Oaklahoma into Kansas. Those were the best of Times!!