{"id":2092,"date":"2015-08-25T23:43:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T19:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2026-02-26T18:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:46:07","slug":"daily-news-us-about-my-travels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/daily-news-us-about-my-travels\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News, US, about my travels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vvdailypress.com\/article\/20150825\/NEWS\/150829816\">Daily News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>VICTORVILLE \u2014 Journalist and bicyclist Lena Faber took a break this week from her long journey across America at the California Route 66 Museum on D Street.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul class=\"width100percent\">\n<li id=\"contents\" class=\"art_para entry-content\">\n<div id=\"pagination1\">\n<div>By Rene Ray De La Cruz<br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/div>\n<p>Posted Aug. 25, 2015 at 3:06 PM<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>VICTORVILLE \u2014 Journalist and bicyclist Lena Faber took a break this week from her long journey across America at the California Route 66 Museum on D Street.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI left Chicago in late May and I plan to be in Santa Monica by (September),\u201d Faber told the Daily Press. &#8220;I love traveling Route 66 because this what America is all about. I love the the country and I love the people.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Faber is a native of Moscow who now lives in South Africa, and she wryly tells stories of her time behind the Iron Curtain before it collapsed. She says she worked for a \u201csecret Soviet agency\u201d and a Russian-based newspaper where she wrote about travel and new automobiles. She even got behind the wheel and tested many of the new vehicle designs. These days she&#8217;s doing her traveling by bike.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy purpose for traveling along Route 66 is to meet as many people as possible and to discover what American culture is about,\u201d said Faber, who lectures at the University of South Africa. \u201cI plan to set up a tent in someone\u2019s backyard in Santa Monica and write my book about Route 66 on the beach, with my MacBook.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>She then admitted she doesn&#8217;t know anyone in Santa Monica but she hopes to meet some new friends, as she&#8217;s done throughout her trip.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>As a group of curious people gathered around Faber at the Route 66 Museum, Faber said her book, \u201cFolks\u2019n Route 66\u2033 will be filled with photographs and stories of the things she\u2019s seen and the people she&#8217;s met along the way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Faber said she\u2019s authored several books, including the two-part &#8220;200000 km Around Moscow&#8221; and &#8220;A Few Rally Racers: Tips to Make You the Better Driver.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Faber, who has two children in their 20s and says she\u2019s in her &#8220;30s plus,\u201d is not trying to set any speed records while traveling the nearly 2,400 miles of the historic Mother Road.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019m taking my time and meeting many wonderful people,\u201d Faber said. \u201cI\u2019m also taking small trips and seeing places like the Grand Canyon.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Faber said local museum board member Delvin Harbour was one of many people that she\u2019s met along the way who provided local transportation, food, drink and a place to rest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is a wonderful museum and it has so many pieces of the golden age of travel and America,\u201d Faber said. \u201cI was excited to see the map that shows where people from across the world have come from to visit this museum.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>According to the museum staff, approximately 700 visitors come through the doors of the 4,500-square-foot museum each month, coming from as far as Australia, Britain, China, Germany, Japan or New Zealand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had up to 1,000 international visitors during the summer months,\u201d Museum President and Director Sue Bridges told the Daily Press. \u201cThe rest of the world recognizes Route 66 as America so they come, and they see, touch and experience it right here in Victorville.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Bridges said the museum staff of volunteers and sponsors are already gearing up for the museum\u2019s \u201c20th anniversary Birthday and Car Show\u201d on Oct. 24.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>According to Faber, her biggest challenge since leaving Chicago was being sidelined for about a month after she was bitten by a dog in Oklahoma. Her other major speed bump was enduring the sweltering heat of the Eastern Mojave Desert.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Faber said she\u2019s a big fan of McDonald\u2019s because of its food, clean bathrooms, drink refills, WiFi and electrical outlets to recharge her phone and MacBook.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen I lived under Soviet Union control, Western culture was not allowed in the USSR,\u201d Faber said. \u201cOnce we received the freedom to travel outside of the Soviet Union, I visited Istanbul, Spain and Switzerland. It was a wonderful to feel freedom for the first time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Besides writing her book, Faber said she\u2019d love to see her biography turned into a major motion picture, with Sandra Bullock playing the lead role.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAmerica is a great country and people should enjoy the freedom of traveling, especially Route 66,\u201d Faber said. \u201cThe only problem with America is bad Wifi, but then again \u2014 the whole world has bad WiFi.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>To follow Faber\u2019s journey, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lenafaber.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.lenafaber.com\/blog<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/journalist2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.facebook.com\/journalist2<\/a>. The California Route 66 Museum is located at 16825 South D St. For more information on the museum, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.califrt66museum.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.califrt66museum.org<\/a>\u00a0or call 760-954-1903.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><em>Rene Ray De La Cruz may be reached at 760-951-6227, RDeLa Cruz@VVDailyPress.com or on Twitter @DP_ReneDeLaCruz.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!-- Place this tag in your head or just before your close body tag. --><br \/>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/apis.google.com\/js\/plusone.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Place this tag where you want the widget to render. --><\/p>\n<div class=\"g-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+lenafaber1\/posts\/6vTx2pGcwRz\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily News VICTORVILLE \u2014 Journalist and bicyclist Lena Faber took a break this week from her long journey across America at the California Route 66 Museum on D Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215],"tags":[436,219],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-as-seen-in","tag-us-historic-route-66","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8855,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions\/8855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lenafaber.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}