About
A Route 66 lover behind the screen.
Route 66 Logbook is a one-person studio. Which mostly means me, the road, and a lot of late nights.
Hi, I'm Carole. I'm French born and living in Australia, and for as long as I can remember I said I would go to the US. It was my childhood dream. Somewhere inside that dream there was always one road: Route 66. The Mother Road. A diner in the middle of nowhere, a neon sign, the desert opening up ahead.
I first drove a piece of it in 2017, part of a long loop that took me through 35 states and more than 51,000 km, around 31,700 miles. We did a little of 66 back then, Illinois especially, properly. That was all it took to fall for it. The old diners still serving milkshakes, the neon, the ghost signs, the people keeping their piece of history alive against the chains and the freeways. I knew straight away that one day I would come back and drive the whole thing, end to end.
In March 2026 I came back to do exactly that, Los Angeles to Chicago, the full road. This time I wanted to prepare properly, to make the most of every mile, and to hold on to the trip afterwards. So I gathered the guides and the passports, and with the centennial there are more of them than ever. I loved parts of it. But guides date quickly, and a passport is always a fixed list, someone else's idea of the route. They run out of pages, they go out of print, and they are never quite the trip you are actually having. Because everyone experiences Route 66 differently.
There is never a definitive guide to Route 66. It simply isn't possible. The road is alive, it changes all the time. So instead of one more guide that's out of date the day it's printed, I wanted to build a living one.
So I made this.
Route 66 Logbook is the app I wish I'd had. A place to plan your trip before you go, to save it as you drive, and to look back and see how far you have come: the miles behind you, the states you have crossed, the stops you found along the way. Not someone else's version of the road. Yours.
And it is built for the community, not for advertisers. Route 66 keeps going because of the people who love it, so they are the ones who keep the map alive: adding places, flagging what has changed, sharing what they find with whoever drives it next. No ads, no noise, no one selling your trip back to you. Just travellers looking out for each other, and for the road.
I'm a designer, not a tech company, and I built this on my own, out of love for the road. Every stop was checked by hand, because a map is only worth having if you can trust it. I'm not here to sell you a perfect product. If it helps you plan your Route 66, enjoy every mile of it, and keep the trip long after you are home, it was worth every late night.
And this is just the beginning. I've got a long list of features I still want to build, so watch this space.
See you on the road.
Carole