It's rather late to include the photo above as it was taken nearly two months ago. I'm sitting in the center of a section of Route 66 in Arizona. (Earlier this year, I posted a similar photo when sitting on the main highway between Taif and Jeddah Saudi Arabia in the 1980's.)
I want to tell you what prompted me to add this photo today. I've been catching up on old Futurama episodes. I had copies of the first three years of the animated show but I was missing the final year. I got two discs via zip.ca and found a few episodes which I missed when they were being broadcast in 2002. Anyway, while researching information on the series on Wikipedia I saw mention of an episode from the previous year called Parasites Lost in which a reference appears. I went back to take a look. The writers of this show were brilliant. In a space scene where spaceships are jockeying for position on a crowded strech of space, a road sign reads "√ 66". Get it?
That show always seemed a perfect half hour of entertainment. I wasn't even aware that two full-length, straight-to-DVD movies have come out since the show's cancellation. I watched Futurama: Bender's Big Score (2007) and am now waiting for the The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008) which was released on June 24th.
If Katey Sagal is ever in the neighbourhood I hope she'll drop in for a drink.