Oddly enough, that is exactly the camera I started out with in 1968 (my very first 35mm). Had lenses from 28-1000mm. Graduated to Canon, then Nikon. Tried Olympus once (neeaahhh). Today I am digital SLR (Kodak - cheap but decent pix), but if I ever get some extra money, probably go back to Nikon, but definitely digital SLR. Still have a couple perfectly good 35mm cameras in the closet that will never get used again...
rode as much of Route 66 as I could
thru New Mexico

Also rode the trail of the ancients
thru Colorado/New Mexico/Utah.
I once did 66 from New Mexico
through southern California. Lots of on-ramp off-ramp stuff when the interstate overlaid the old route. One of my favorite things to do when I lived at Grand Canyon was researching all the Anasazi ruins and trying to second-guess the hard-headed archaeologists.
Someday I will forget those trips to which I reply when I don't remember them it won't matter anymore.
That's a problem with living via memory only - not only will you forget some things entirely, but each time you retrieve a memory, you make slight alterations before you put it back, which means what you remember today is not exactly what you originally saw or did (or so say the psychologists).
Now I'm married to a professional photographer and she takes 90000 pictures of every single thing.
I used to make money with the camera (a zillion years ago) and found that only about 1 in 100 photographs was worthy of publication or sale. I can understand her taking all those pix and today, with digital cameras, there is no film and processing cost. I have an ancient version of Photoshop, so I do all my own processing now.