Jon Fasman
speaker
573 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Jul
Jon Fasman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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are you travelling Route 66?
What made you want to do this?
I met these guys outside the Midpoint Cafe in Adrian, Texas, named because Adrian is the midpoint of Route 66.
The first half of the highway has its charms, as we'll see tomorrow and Thursday.
But the road really comes into itself out west.
Open roads, big skies, desert landscapes, and small towns with wide streets that feel like the old west.
In Arizona, I met bikers from Britain, vintage car enthusiasts from Spain, and octogenarians from France traveling the road for the second straight year.
They've come to see, and I hope you can intuit my finger quotes when I say this, the real
America.
Now I was raised and now live in the northeast, and I bristle at the notion that any part of America is more real than any other part.
But I know what they mean.
There's a romance to the Old West that say New Jersey and Connecticut, whatever their charms, simply don't have.
Route sixty six makes the most of it.
Part of the reason is the freedom of the open road.
That was John Balasteri, a mechanic I met in Seligman, Arizona.
He's planning to open a motorcycle museum, which would not be unique on Route sixty six.
I visited one in Warwick, Oklahoma.
And if I'm remembering right, not once on the road between Chicago and Tulsa did I pull into the slow lane to let phalanxes of bikers pass me.
But from Texas to California, I did it all the time.
Further down the road in Arizona, an abandoned mining town called Oatman has remade itself as a sort of open-air Wild West stage set.
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