Gilligans - Route 66 Tours

02/01/2023

Bobby Troup wrote the song, but it was Nat King Cole that put the tune about getting your kicks on Route 66 at the top of the hit parade. And it was a line from this little ditty that ensures Kingman, Arizona will always be linked to that iconic highway.

"Kingman, Bartstow; San Bernadino - Get your Kicks on Route 66!"

Happy New Year!
In April, we resume our tours of Route 66 and, for a night we enjoy a colourful evening in Kingman, Arizona.
Not only will our guests enjoy the 'Route 66 Fun Run' (an anuual car show/cruise along ol' 66 to Kingman) but they'll soak up some facinating stories from this great town in the desert.

As Kingman was established as a transportation hub, this is rather fitting. The town began as a railroad construction camp for the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad in 1881. And that railroad followed the course of the frontier era 'Beale Wagon Road' surveyed in the late 1850s, one of the country’s first federally funded roads in the southwest.

Statehood was granted to Arizona in 1912 but Kingman was still very much a western frontier town. In late 1914 the National Old Trails Road, predecessor to Route 66, was rerouted through Kingman, and yet companies in that dusty high desert town still ran horse drawn stagecoaches to remote mining towns until 1916. And some mining companies continued using mules to pull freight wagons well into the late 1920s.

That was a stark juxtaposition to the establishment of an airfield in 1919. The United States Army used that Kingman field as a base while creating the first aerial survey of the Grand Canyon. And that dusty airfield is why pioneering aviator Charles Lindbergh first arrived in Kingman.
A decade later Lindbergh surveyed construction of a modern airfield and terminal dubbed Port Kingman. This was a designated stop for Transcontinental Air Transport, the country’s first passenger air service.
The airfield was erased with the city’s growth, but the terminal building has survived and now serves as the offices for Brown Drilling a few blocks off Route 66.

In early 1942, mere months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States Army announced that a new base that would serve as a training center for navigators, and for aircraft gunnery crews, would be established at Kingman Arizona. The city was selected in part based on a climate conducive to year-round training, and its location at the junction of US 66 and US 466. But the primary determining factor was the railroad. Kingman had a direct rail connection to Chicago and Los Angeles, ideal for troop and equipment transport.

Construction of the sprawling training center that included auxiliary fields at Yucca along Route 66, and Site Six, now Lake Havasu City, was made a priority. Before phase one of the base was completed in August 1942, Lindbergh’s T.A.T. airfield was pressed into use. The Harvey House near the depot served as the temporary headquarters.
The first gunnery class commenced on January 8, 1943. The cadets began their training as B-17 gunners with BB guns and s***t shooting. The next stage of training was with B-17 gun turrets mounted to trucks and targets pulled by small donkey engines. Before the end of that month classes for navigators were added.
Construction and expansion of the base continued until late fall 1944. In the summer of 1945, the Kingman Army Airfield was placed on inactive status. Then on February 25, 1946, the base officially closed.

The base was then transferred to the Surplus War Aircraft Division of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and designated Storage Depot 41. Within a few months 4,393 war birds, mostly heavy bombers were mothballed under a desert sun. The following year a contract was awarded to the Martin Wunderlich Company of Jefferson City, Missouri to “salvage 5,540 aircraft being stored at the former Kingman Army Airfield in Kingman, Arizona.”

During the same period many of the buildings were auctioned off. Many were dismantled, others were relocated and used as the core for houses, stores, and even the Kingman Chamber of Commerce.
The base theatre and officers club survive to this day. They were combined as one building and currently serve as the American Legion hall.

The site of the Kingman Army Airfield is now the Kingman Airport and Industrial Park. Surprisingly an array of tangible links to the WWII base can still be found.
The terminal and Airport Café are housed in the former headquarters building. The control tower still casts long shadows over the runways. Below the tower are monuments to training accidents that claimed the lives of dozens of cadets.
The sharp-eyed traveler on Route 66 will catch a glimpse of concrete pill boxes in the desert on the north side of the highway. These silent sentinels mark the site of the gunnery range that is still littered with shattered s***t and spent rounds.

The Kingman Army Airfield is an obscure historic footnote overlooked by most adventurers on Route 66. But these places are the tangible links to the highway, and America’s, history that transform the double six into a portal where history is seamless.

So, how do you find these special places? How do you learn the story about places such as the Kingman Army Airfield?
With Gilligan’s Route 66 Tours, of course!

Photo: Mike Ward

22/10/2022

Following our Mississippi Tour, it was time to head back from New Mexico and Amarillo to St Louis and into Illinois on Route 66.

Our tour of Route 66 in April 2023 is shaping up to be a great one.

We have some cool new inclusions, a couple of small additions and some more detailed sections included.

Take a look at the website to learn more

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18/10/2022

Whenever we travel within the USA, we try to fly Southwest Airlines. Why?

Because the staff are always friendly, helpful and funny (not to mention the fact that 2 x suitcases per passenger fly free (ideal for Route 66 tourists)

Anyway, this happened on the flight from Amarillo to Denver today and it made all of us down the back laugh.

“Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen; from the flight deck this is your captain.

Apologies for the delay in boarding today.
I will start with one bit of bad news and then a few bits of good news…

Firstly, the bad news is that the crew flying this aircraft into Amarillo, didn’t do a great job of avoiding some birds - so that’s why we’re late leaving.

The good news is, the engineers are inspecting it now, and once we have sign off we are good to go.
Secondly, we have a 12 minute shorter than scheduled flight time, so we aim to have you there pretty close to schedule.

The last piece of good news, is that I recently watched Top Gun Maverick, so I have learned a few cool moves that should help get us there a little faster.

Sit back, relax and enjoy your flight”

16/10/2022

Check another adventure off the list for this old faithful.

16/10/2022

We have made it to New Orleans!

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06/10/2022

On our tour down the Mississippi, we bumped into (and onto) our old friend 66.

It was a great chance for past guests to do a piece of Historic Route 66 with us again

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02/10/2022

Check out the last couple of days, along with all the photos as we drive the side roads of the Mississippi River.

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29/09/2022

We have officially started our Mississippi Tour!

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10/09/2022

In just over 2 weeks, we commence our 1st tour since 2019 - The Mississippi Tour.

This was a tour we did back in 2018, and it returns again in 2024.

Follow our page, see what the group gets up to as we meander our way around twisting back roads, through forests and across farmland and fields from Minneapolis to New Orleans!

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08/09/2022

The ghost towns scattered along Route 66 are unique.

They boomed as farming towns, mining towns, railroad towns and towns at the center of vast oil fields. They survived periods of boom and bust but ultimately it was the bypass of Route 66 as the main street through town that proved to be the death knell.

In New Mexico the ghost towns along that storied highway are tangible links to a century or more of history. A few are rooted in antiquity.
At the west end of San Jose on the pre 1937 alignment of Route 66, a picturesque steel truss bridge built in 1921 spans the Pecos River. The long-abandoned bridge that carried National Old Trails Road and Route 66 traffic is recent history in this ancient village that is a mere shadow from what it was in the mid 19th century.

The farming village was established as a part of the 1794 land grant issued by Governor Don Fernando Chacon. The quaint adobe chapel built in about 1826 has cast its shadow over the historic Santa Fe Trail, a pivotal trade route between the United States and Mexico in the mid-19th century, the National Old Trails Road and Route 66.

Preserved in Pecos National Park along the pre 1937 alignment of Route 66 are the remnants of what was once an expansive trading center. In the years before the arrival of Spanish conquistadors it was a vibrant and diverse city at the crossroads of trade routes connecting pueblos to the west and hunting tribes from the Great Plains.

Archeological evidence indicates that a village was established at this site in about 800 A.D. Within four hundred years it had grown into a city with a population of more than 2,000 people. Spanish explorers in the 16th century wrote that this was the largest city encountered north of Mexico.
The city was also a fortress and walls of stone and adobe still tower several stories above the forested valley. Also preserved at the site are the ruins of a 17th century mission built by the Spanish.
In western New Mexico the dusty village of Cubero with a population of less than 300 people is a tangible link to centuries of history.

Built on the ruins of an ancient pueblo, the little farming town appears on maps created by cartographer Bernardo Miera y Pacheco in 1776. It served as a garrison town for the Spanish and Mexican army as well as a contingent of United States army troops led by Kit Carson in their battles against the Navajo.

The history of Valencia also includes a connection to a diverse array of cultures. The chronicles of the Chamuscado Rodriguez expedition in 1580 note that Caxtole, a small Tiwa pueblo, was located at this site. In 1600, Juan de Valencia established a ranchero at what is now Valencia. A United States post office operated in the village from 1884 to 1939, and for a brief time it was large enough to serve as a county seat.

A tour that includes some of the ghost towns of Route 66 in New Mexico, and that shares their fascinating story, is more than a mere holiday. With your knowledgeable guides, Gilligan’s tour of Route 66 will provide you with an epic memory making odyssey.

PHOTOS: Judy Hinckley

08/08/2022

Mention Chicago and the Prohibition era most anywhere in the world and the conversation will invariably shift to Al Capone and incidents such as the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. All along Route 66 and the dusty two-lane highways in the Missouri Ozarks or on the plains of Oklahoma are people that are eager to share local legends about Bonnie and Clyde.

But, surprisingly, stories about the Central Park district at 6th Street and Peoria Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma where some of the most violent gangsters of this period got their start and honed their skills are almost forgotten. Many of these thugs would profit from the lessons they learned in Tulsa by going to work for crime syndicates in Chicago, St. Louis, and Detroit.
Many famous murderers and bank robbers launched their careers at an early age by running with street gangs in the district. The infamous Barker gang led by Ma Barker, Volney Davis, Wilbur Underhill, Ray Terrill, Elmer Inman, and a plethora of ruthless Midwestern gangsters of the late 1920s and 1930s had a Tulsa connection.

In about 1910, Arthur “Doc” Barker moved with his family—George Elias Barker, his father; Arizona “Ma” Barker, his mother; and brothers Herman, Lloyd, and Fred—from Missouri to Tulsa. The Barker brothers quickly established a reputation in the Tulsa underworld for theft and robbery. They were even linked to several murders.
After his escape from prison on February 19, 1920, Doc Barker was identified by witnesses in a series of bank robberies in Oklahoma. A few years later he joined his brother Fred and Alvin “Creepy” Karpis on a violent crime spree in Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas.
Barker was identified as a participant in the robbery of the Third Northwestern Bank in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on December 16, 1932, and as the gunman who shot and killed two police officers during the robbery. His brother Fred shot and killed a civilian during the robbery.
The gang struck again on August 30, 1933, robbing a payroll at Stockyards National Bank of South St. Paul, Minnesota. Barker displayed his vicious, cold-blooded nature by fatally shooting Leo Pavlak, a disarmed police officer.
Jim Clark arrived in the Central Park district around 1921. Two years later he was arrested for burglary. After his release he moved to Texas, worked in the oil fields, and then launched a smuggling business in 1927 to bring liquor into Oklahoma from Juarez, Mexico.

On March 31, 1928, he was sentenced to serve five years in the state penitentiary but was paroled a year later. On March 14, 1932, he was sentenced to two years in prison for stealing a car in Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Six weeks later he made his escape and was linked to the robbery of $47,000 from a bank in Fort Scott, Kansas, and $11,000 from a bank in Clinton, Oklahoma.
Clark and his gang were arrested but escaped from prison and robbed another Oklahoma bank. They crossed the Texas Panhandle on Route 66 and headed for New Mexico, but police had located their getaway car with information that allowed them to establish roadblocks near Tucumcari, New Mexico. After their arrest, Clark and Brady were extradited to Kansas and returned to the prison in Lansing.
Counted among the most prolific and violent graduates of the Central Park school of strong-arm artists, thieves, extortionists, burglars, and pickpockets were Ray Terrill and the Kimes brothers, George, and Matthew.
On March 1, 1923, Terrill teamed up with Al Spencer and Frank Nash, associates from the Central Park days and stole an estimated $20,000 in cash and bonds from the Katy Limited near Okesa, Oklahoma. This was the last recorded train robbery in the state’s history.
George and Matthew Kimes robbed their first bank in Depew, Oklahoma—the first community that was bypassed in a Route 66 realignment—on June 30, 1926. Matthew, arrested for robbery and assault, had escaped from the jail in Bristow the day before. In August the brothers were stopped by police in Sallisaw. During the attempted escape and running gun battle, Deputy Perry Chuculate was killed.

Terrill led a daring raid on the Sallisaw jail with Herman Barker and Elmer Inman on November 21, 1926, and freed Matthew Kimes. The newly formed gang followed Route 66 into Sapulpa, Oklahoma, on January 10, 1927, and robbed the bank of more than $42,000. A week later Herman Barker, Elmer Inman, and Matthew Kimes were caught burglarizing a bank in Joplin, Missouri.
Terrill was captured during another robbery but while being returned to prison in McAlester on January 19 he escaped from custody. A few days later he rejoined Mathew Kimes, and the duo launched another crime spree. Terrill and Inman fled east and were arrested in Hot Springs, Arkansas, on November 26, 1927.

Matt Kimes and Raymond Doolin, another Central Park associate followed Route 66 west to Arizona. On June 23, 1927, Leo Smith at the Grand Canyon registry office recognized Kimes and notified Bert Lauzon and Sheriff Parsons in Flagstaff. After a tepid attempt to escape Kimes surrendered without a fight. He was transported to Williams by train that evening, and then to Flagstaff the following day.
Tulsa’s Central Park Gang has largely been forgotten. However, between 1920 and 1930, these violent and ruthless thieves and murderers often were front page stories. They left a trail of empty banks and grieving families in communities along Route 66 in Oklahoma and throughout the Midwest.

A tour of Route 66 with Gilligans is more than a drive across America - it's an interactive history lesson that provides our guests with miles of smiles across the Main Street of America!

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18/05/2022

In western Arizona there is a picturesque section of Route 66 that is often promoted as 160 miles (257 kilometers) of smiles.

The Hackberry General Store, Grand Canyon Caverns, Cool Springs, and other links to the history of that storied highway add to the sense of time travel that is a drive along iconic U.S. 66 from the 1920s Partridge Creek Bridge to the California state line.

Since 1988, on the first weekend in May, the Route 66 Fun Run sponsored by the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona transforms these miles of smiles into a living time capsule.
As nearly 1,000 vintage vehicles, colorful hotrods, and trucks, and even the occasional antique bus, take to the highway and fill the parking lots of historic roadside businesses, the line between past and present is blurred.
But this delightful event is more than an opportunity to experience the illusion of time travel. It is a weekend of memory making fun along the most famous highway in America.

The festivities kick off on Friday evening in the old railroad town of Seligman. Live music, great food, friends, and friends yet made, and vintage neon casting a colorful glow on Route 66 set the mood.

On Saturday festivities kick into high gear. The town fills with cars, traffic clogs the streets just as they did in the years before Route 66 was replaced by I-40, and stores and restaurants teem with customers. And then after a parade of entrants through town, the festivities move west along Route 66 toward Kingman ninety miles (145 kilometers) to the west.

During the Route 66 Fun Run, just as in the heyday of Route 66 when the Grand Canyon Caverns was the second most visited attraction in the state of Arizona, the parking lots again are filled with tail finned Cadillacs, Buicks, Edsels, and Chevrolets, dusty old trucks, Thunderbirds, station wagons and motorcycles. This scene is repeated in Peach Springs on the Hualapai Indian Reservation, at the mid-1930s Hackberry General Store, and Antares Point, home of Giganticus Headicus, a quirky roadside attraction.

In the historic heart of Kingman, a car show of epic proportions unfolds along Andy Devine Avenue, Route 66. In the shadow of the Hotel Beale that has a connection to Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart and a host of Hollywood celebrities, and the Brunswick Hotel where Edsel Ford stayed in July 1915, more than a century of automotive history is placed on display under a bright blue desert sky.

One block off Andy Devine Avenue, the car show continues. But here the backdrop is an array of historic buildings that now house coffee shops, an eclectic array of restaurants and sidewalk cafes, wine bars and microbreweries. And as the sun sinks in the west, and the soft glow of neon is reflected in vintage chrome, bands set up to play in historic saloons and trendy bars.

The following day the party moves down the road toward the Colorado River Valley, a true desert oasis. Arguably the section of Route 66 over Sitgreaves Pass in the Black Mountains, and through the old mining town of Oatman are the most picturesque miles of this iconic highway between Chicago and Santa Monica.
Add a stream of historic and vintage cars flowing along the twists and turns of a highway suspended above a deep chasm and it becomes a photographer’s paradise.

The Route 66 Fun Run is the highlight of a Route 66 adventure, and attending the Fun Run is just one more reason to plan the ultimate Route 66 odyssey with Gilligan’s Route 66 Tours - the world’s best self-driving tour of Route 66.

07/05/2022

April 2023 has room for 3 more couples!

Enjoy the very best of Route 66 with our Official Tour - a small group, self-driving tour of America's most famous highway.

12/04/2022

Places are filling for April 2023!

Secure you place on our tour of Route 66 departing in 12 months time!
It might seem along way off, but the countdown and preparations begin well in advance.

Our 'Spring Tour' in April includes participating in the annual Route 66 Fun Run from Seligman to Kingman, Arizona. You'll spend the day cruising Route 66 with over 900 classic cars to downtown historic Kingman, where we spend the afternoon and evening enjoying the sights!

Check out the website for more information - Remember: We can arrange flights from all corners of the world to Chicago!

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07/04/2022

Route 66 is constantly evolving. Always has and it will continue to in the years ahead

A small town situated along Route 66 in western Oklahoma has big plans for the highway’s upcoming Centennial in 2026 and hopes to capitalize on the many

15/03/2022

Places are filling for April 2023!

Secure your place/s on our tour of Route 66 departing in 12 months time!

It might seem along way off, but the countdown and preparations begin well in advance.

Our 'Spring Tour' in April includes participating in the annual Route 66 Fun Run from Seligman to Kingman, Arizona.
You'll spend the day cruising Route 66 with over 900 classic cars to downtown historic Kingman, where we spend the afternoon and evening enjoying the sights!

Tours Return in 2023!

Check out the website for more information - we can arrange flights from all corners of the world!
https://www.gilligansroute66.com/gilligans-group-tours-of-route-66/

08/01/2022

Vale: David Clark aka "Windy City Road Warrior"

It is with much sorrow, that I have to share yet more sad news from Route 66 to you all.

Our good friend - David Clark, our Gilligans - Route 66 tour guide has sadly passed away, unexpectedly at his home on Route 66, in Chicago.

As you know, Dave was an absolute encyclopedia about Chicago, Route 66 and American history in general. His quiet and unassuming persona was bought to life by enthusiastic story-telling and his dry sense of humour. His bus tour around Chicago was always insightful.

In recent years, Dave had continued west from Chicago with the group, sharing his knowledge along the way. He added value to our morning meetings.
Dave could provide detail that no one else could.

On every tour (since 2014) the night before we left Chicago, Dave and I would eat at 'Greek Islands' - a favourite for us both in Greektown. We would always start with Saganaki - the flaming fried cheese.

This was always a chance for us to not talk about Route 66, but instead, share stories about life - both mine and his. There was plenty of insight. From his early days, to moving to Chicago from Indiana in the early 80's. Dave had lived and travelled. He was a quiet achiever who had survived his share of lows.

Many know Dave was, for quite some time a heavy drinker - a self confessed alcoholic.
In August of 2014, David lost his dearly beloved - Carol, from a sudden heart attack.
Both he and Carol drank together, and knowing their drinking likely impacted Carol's health - Dave gave up alcohol. For good.

Just one month after Carol had passed away, and fighting his recovery; he fronted up to our guests and led them on tour around Chicago. He did so without a hint of the struggles he was dealing with. He was always respectful and professional.

As tours and years passed, Dave's whole appearance improved. He looked healthier and much more confident.
Fast forward to our last tour (before the pandemic struck) in October 2019.
A healthy and happy Dave joined the group again on tour. As always, he was supremely reliable, witty and forever wanting to educate whilst entertaining the group with facts, stories and humour.

Anyone across Route 66 - even those who consider their knowledge of Route 66 to be as good as any other - would concede that the Windy City Road Warrior was hard to beat.

Dave had one other love - his little dog Roger. I hope Roger is looked after well without his dad.

When I return to Chicago, I will dine alone at Greek Islands, enjoy our traditional shared appetizer of flaming Saganaki and will imagine Dave yelling "Oompa!" with me, just like he used to.

Thank you David Clark. R.I.P

Sam

04/01/2022

Come along for an adventure in April next year - Route 66 awaits!

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31/12/2021

Happy New Year!

Back in 2013, my old friend Roger Allison (AKA - 'Gilligan') decided that we should introduce travelers to an educational and entertaining tour of America - a tour that allows our guests/friends to see the real USA.

We started by taking some extended friends to Vegas for NASCAR, and we took others across parts of Route 66 through Arizona.
Little did we know that with a few ads in the paper, and ALOT of 'word of mouth' we would soon have a little tour company that enjoyed a steady stream of new-found friends joining us for 2 months of every year since. Until of course - Covid-19 popped up.

The last 2 years have been extremely tough for me. No tours, the sudden and unexpected passing of 'Gilligan' in June 2020, along with the long and arduous task or trying to retrieve funds from hotels, airlines and suppliers for guests.

But, as hard as the last 2 years have been for me - there is many of our guests, future guests and Route 66 business owners and friends that have endured a very tough time too... Some much tougher mine. To you all - I hope 2022 is a turning point.

I am grateful for my family more than ever - Fehran, Lucas and Liam.
They have allowed me to travel 66 for 2 months of the last few years, so I can show guests my view of America. I owe them BIG time.

This New Year, I look to 2022 as a year that we almost know what we're in for. We're used to curve-balls, we're used to things not going like we planned, so lets tackle it head on - hoping for the best.

To all of you who have joined our adventures - thank you. Thank you too, to those who came along in June for our reunion in Rotorua and Taranaki - and it was a blast!

Our 2022 Reunion is undergoing a small change in dates - likely the 1st week of March. I will inform ASAP.

To those of you who have suffered personal losses this year, - you know who you are - you are in my thoughts.
I hope that 2022 brings some peace and healing.

My sincere thanks to you all for the last few years.
I enjoy providing an adventure across Route 66 with you and our new found friends, and have loved every mile.

2022 sees us return to the Mississippi, and April 2023 sees us return to Route 66. We will also be launching an all new navigation APP (with a 'pink line'). This is phone based, and will have some revolutionary tools onboard.

From my family to yours - here is to a happy 2022!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Sam

18/09/2021

Some sad news from Cuba, Missouri tonight.

Owner of Missouri Hick Bar-B-Que, Dennis Meiser has passed away.

Many of us have stopped and enjoyed lunch in Cuba while on our tour.

Condolences to his family and staff .

Below is a clip courtesy of Rural Missouri.

22/08/2021

Donuts.

An American icon and tradition.
Over the last few years many have stopped by to collect your bags of delicious, freshly made donuts leaving St Louis.

70 years in business! Here's to many more.

If you have pictures of your stop at the Donut Drive-In - please share them in the comments!

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16/08/2021

Check out our updated website!

Plan with ease - we are taking reservations now for 2023 - with no deposit!

See why we provide the best tour from Chicago to LA across Route 66

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12/07/2021

Inspired by Route 66?

Quite often, long after a tour across the Main St of America is complete; we get sent pictures from past guests.
This, however, is truly inspirational.

Rainer and Karin came along in back in April of 2019. Joining us from Germany, they enjoyed Route 66 so much - that they have re-created the true essence of heartland USA back at their home in Tannenweg.

The walls are adorned with photos, collectables and other memory-making items that will keep the tour fresh in the mind for years to come.

April 2023 is set for our return to Route 66, so why not join us for a lifetime of memories?

Stay tuned for the all new website next week!

30/06/2021

MISSISSIPPI TOUR 2022

Back in 2018, we welcomed some of you along for our tour down the mighty Mississippi River.

As the world looks set to open up next year, we're planning our next amazing tour down this true American icon.

Please pop over and 'Like' or 'follow' this page to see some of the interesting people and places we visit.

This tour is set to depart on September 25th, 2022. If you're interested in coming along - get in touch!

There is room for 1 or 2 more couples only!

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Following on from our world-leading tours of Historic Route 66, Gilligans is proud to launch our "Mi