Guardian Camera Club: YesBut on photographing a journey

1 Chicago If I won the National Lottery, I would fly to Chicago, buy a red Corvette convertible, stick a Nelson Riddle cassette in the player and to the sound of the 1960s TV series thyme tune drive west along Route 66 via: St Louis, Oklahoma City, Albuquerque all the way to Los Angeles Photograph: YesBut/Flickr

2 Amerillo. Just over half way along the route, Newbury Park Station is the 15th stop. If we were on the Mother Road we would have reached Amarillo Photograph: YesBut/Flickr

3 Route 66. We’ve just past Gants Hill Roundabout. In common with travelling across the USA, bus journeys are measured in time not distance. But our journey should take less than an hour compared to 5-7 days it would take to drive from Chicago to L.A. On a bus journey passengers choose whether to spend the time travelling in the inner space of their thoughts or the inner space of the bus - examining their fellow passengers and the bus or they can observe the passing scenery. Unfortunately suburban Essex doesn’t compare favourably with the vistas of New Mexico, Arizona and Southern California Photograph: YesBut/Flickr

4 Flagstaff. Thirty-two minutes into our journey. Thirty-two minutes into our journey. With three-quarters of the distance covered on the Mother Road we would have reached Flagstaff, Arizona and do a detour to see the Grand Canyon. But having just passed under the North Circular Road, that’s enough excitement for today, so we’ll stay on the bus Photograph: YesBut/Flickr

5 Gas Station Gas Stations were one of the iconic images of the old Route 66 - with a gas guzzling Cadillac on its forecourt. Or on the rural stretches of the highway a small station with a Ford pickup standing by a hand operated gas pump, perhaps with two old locals sitting on a bench watching the World pass by - with Phillips 66, Texaco or Mobiloil adverts nailed to the door Photograph: YesBut/Flickr

6 Los Angeles. Forty-five minutes after leaving Romford we reach the end of the route, Leytonstone Station. We are immediately reminded of the link between L.A. and Leytonstone - think of films, to name just a few Dial M for Murder, The Man Who Knew Too Much, North By Northwest, Psycho and The Birds. All by Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock who was born in Leytonstone on 13th August 1899. The event is commemorated by a series of mosaics, located in the entrance of the Underground Station, depicting scenes from his films Photograph: Yesbut/Flickr