Has anyone heard anything about this NBC show? I checked the NBC website, and it's listed but nothing comes up when I click the link. It's 5 families, each w/ their own luxury touring bus, traveling Rte. 66 from Chicago (eastern terminus, right?) to LA. Per one of the crew, it is set to air in July.

Anyway, my family and I were at Meteor Crater, AZ today and they were filming there. I didn't see any competition between the families, but I assume there is some because 3 of the teams were wearing color-coded football jerseys. A 4th team was out of uniform and scarfing down Subway while a camera crew filmed, and I didn't see the 5th team.

The families I saw were the Montgomerys (African-American, 1 woman, 1 man and two boys - preteen and mid-teen wearing yellow), the DiSalvatores (Caucasian, wearing purple, 1 petite mama, 1 dad w/ scraggly hair and two kids - at least one of which is a preteen boy the other of which was behind a tree from my vantage point - dad and younger boy were having private confessional when I walked past them), the Favereys in light blue (not sure of their family make-up or racial background, perhaps Hispanic, as I only saw 3 members which included a teen girl and a woman - different tree blocked 3rd person). The family that was eating was either the Cootes (who may wear orange at some point to match the lettering on the tour bus as do the above 3 teams) or the Pollards (red), but included 2 younger girls, a man and a woman w/ lots of eye make-up.

The three teams in the jerseys were sitting in the courtyard of the museum structure, each at a separate picnic table. I guess they were instructed not to communicate with each other because there was no conversation occuring between the tables.

The crew was pretty large. There were easily 50 people running around with still and video cameras, walkie-talkies, etc. One of the Meteor Crater employees told me that they'd be filming most of the day (we were there from about noon-2:30) and were staying at the RV park at the I-40 exit tonight.

If they stay as close to old Rte. 66 as possible, what other stops do you think they've made along the way? Other AZ sites along Rte. 66 are Petrified Forest NP, Flagstaff (Museum Club, NAU), Williams (Grand Canyon RR), Ash Fork and Seligman (not much there), Grand Canyon Caverns and Kingman.

Here's to hoping that this isn't a re-invention of TAR Family Edition.