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In Albuquerque, right off Rt 66 is the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History:
https://www.nuclearmuseum.org/
https://www.nuclearmuseum.org/
If you make it as far as St Louis I recommend eating at Crown Candy Kitchen. It is an old fashioned soda fountain-type restaurant. Good ice cream, great ambiance, lots of specialty chocolates for sale. And if you like bacon may I suggest their "heart-stopping BLT" sandwich.
https://crowncandykitchen.net/
Uranus is a must see!
Just spent a couple of weeks exploring northern NM and saw lots of Rte 66 signs. I learned that the original westbound Route 66 had a zig-zag that went up to Santa Fe and then down south of Albuquerque before coming back to what's now I-40. Sometime in the 1930s or 40s it was realigned to follow the current I-40 route and stay south of Santa Fe, so you have a decision to make when you pass through NM about whether to take the older or newer route.
If you decide to go through Santa Fe, there's a lot to see and do there. We enjoyed Fort Union National Monument, Pecos National Historic Park, Los Alamos, Bandelier National Monument and Valles Caldera National Preserve (getting our money's worth from that National Parks pass ).
The Rio Grande Gorge near Taos was also spectacular in its fall colors and we even saw a couple of bighorn rams who seemed mildly curious about why we were walking on their trail.
If you do it in the fall instead of summer, and have any interest in seeing the Trinity site, it's open on the 3rd Saturday of October.
In Albuquerque, right off Rt 66 is the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History:
https://www.nuclearmuseum.org/
I think I was there years ago when it was on Kirtland AFB. Not sure if it's the same museum though.
I've always wanted to visit the Trinity site but could never get away on the right weekend in October when they open it. We have a plan to go to Hiroshima in the near future (Japan is super easy from Hawaii) and next summer we'll be in Saipan for an event unrelated to history and will make a short hop over to Tinian to see North Field and the bomb pits where the atomic bombs were loaded into the Enola Gay and Bockscar. I've never been a big WWII buff but lately I'm finding it very interesting, especially the Pacific Theater. The battle of Saipan is less well known than Iwo Jima or Okinawa but was instrumental in the US establishing a runway (North Field) within B-29 range of the Japanese home islands. North Field was the busiest airport in the world during the war.
Yes, it's the same, but bigger and better. They moved it off-base when they closed the base to general public access. It was first moved near Old Town Albuquerque, then moved again out to near the base. It is currently about 1 mile from one of the Kirtland AFB gates (Eubank Rd gate). I used to work at Kirtland, and did some work helping the museum.
If you like nuclear related history, there is also another good one in Los Alamos: the Bradbury Science Museum.
Wigwam Motel, Holbrook Az.
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Well, you might stop and just take some pics.I tried here and learned you need reservations one year in advance!