Ever wanted to travel Route 66? The fabled U.S. highway, which more or less cuts diagonally from Chicago to California, was popularized in song and even a cool little TV series a half century ago. Bypassed by super highways and Interstate routes today, it is very much a broken path. That hasn't stopped Rob Salem (above) and his nephew Aaron from setting out this summer in their '89 T-Bird to navigate Route 66 all the way from where they cross the Canadian border in Detroit to Comic-Con in San Diego.The Toronto Star TV critic and his young, pony-tailed sidekick are videotaping their adventures and are posting them on YouTube. Check out their fourth installment, somewhere in deepest mid-America, here. Along for the ride is a bobble head of Heath Ledger, who stares back at you from the dash while the words "HEATH VISION" are burned into the screen.
Salem, a big kid at heart who still collects Batman and Superman memorabilia (and insists on wearing it during press tours), stopped in Chicago to get the ultimate Superman souvenir: a classic "S" shield from the '50s Adventures of Superman series tattooed on his arm. Aaron gets a freakin' Batman mural on his shoulder that has to be seen to be believed.
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