Dedicated to Bobby Troup and California Peggy: Route 66 (all photos 5/17)

Today, outside of Peach Springs, AZ (notice the hitch-hiker)


View from the USFS Red Rock Ranger Station (Sedona)


Canyon bridge on the FS-229


The truck (walk-in door option)


Front-and center!


Shhhhhhh!, fer god's sake!

when will you learn to add the obligatory dog shot? :D

Too many rattlesnakes around to let the crazy Nickster out.

safety first :D

Stay safe

I'm in Kingman, AZ, tonight.

:hi:

and yeah, where's the dog?! ;)

We are in a great hotel along I-40 in Kingman: the Marriott Spring Hill Suites. I don't normally gush about brand-name digs, but I do like this Spring Hill. With it's hanging pocket-like doors and translucent room dividers, the designers take a long narrow room and make it feel much .. what? .. non-motel-room-like. Actually better: European.

I always get a room with two queens, if I can. One for my camera gear and bags, and one for Nick and me.

Thursday I'll be in Las Vegas. Dr. DemoTex has a room at a fancy casino (MGM Grand). Nick and I have a room at a cheap La Quinta ($66/night). We reserve visitation rights both ways.

:loveya:

OK....by a few miles, but there you go!

In Eugene.

Looks like you're taking the scenic route, that's for sure.

Safe drive, man.

Few understand the wonderful attraction.

Safe drive to you, my friend!

Wet and miserable here tonight in the Willamette Valley.

I am truly honored by this thread...

And these are wonderful, bright, vivid, incredibly great pictures!

How red the soil is. I'd heard about it, but hadn't seen it before...

Safe travels, indeed, to you and Nick!

:hug:

Thought you might chime in! Nick says hi!

Mac

Tuesday nights I go out to read poetry (mine) at a local coffee house!

It's great fun!

Truckers are the best rides, so many good stories. (No worries if you didn't I'm just wondering.)

I'm driving a Toyota pick-em-up, but I'm not sure to what you refer.

I figure you probably don't have the room. (Sorry the trucker comment was random.)

Nick's kennel cage takes up 55% of the back seat, and I pack daily use bags on the other side. Camera gear that I might need goes in the passenger-side floor-board. A cardboard flat from Costco goes on the passenger seat with CD holders, snacks, etc.

:silly:

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You were literally two miles from my house. I'd of bought you and Nick a meal had I known!

... with my parents. Absolutely EVERY refrain in the song invokes memories of the vistas and adventures we encountered on that trip. We made the trip at the pinnacle of the westward migration along Route 66 seeking the opportunities for a "better life" in California. It'd be beyond impossible for me to convey the sense of those times to the second cohort of the baby boom (who never faced the draft) and later... BEFORE Elvis, BEFORE Disneyland, BEFORE Mickey Mouse Club ... when "I Like Ike" was a mantra and the country was enjoying a "peace dividend" (and Korea was a "police action") and seeing the world open up to a whole array of new experiences.

It should be noted that Route 66's hey-day preceded the ubiquitous air-conditioned businesses and residences of the southwest ... when it was extraordinary enough to merit prominent signage. Somehow, we didn't seem to think it was all that essential ... until we did.

Those were the days when gas stations "competed" in offering the BEST maps ... and *I* was the trip navigator. I took on my role very seriously. (My love for good maps has survived to this day.)

Especially the one w/Bell & Courthouse Rock.....this is my neck of the woods!!

Couldn't have been more than a few miles from me...doncha love the RED rocks??

I do!! :)


Great pics...thx!!!! :hug:

66. I lived in Flagstaff for a while and just fell in love with the whole subculture of it!

Awesome pics, thank you so much!

Thank you for the pictures of Route 66. Brings back memories of my trip along the Route. There were 5 of us in 2 cars. A '54 Ford and a VW Camper. We stayed on the old alignment even when it was parallel to the freeway. We were camped outside of Santa Fe when we heard about the attacks on NY and DC. The trip became pretty odd after that. We talked with people who were stuck because of canceled flights, met people who decided to drive to their destinations, and met an Indian woman who told us of her aged mother's views after the attacks. So for me, Route 66 and 9/11 will forever be entwined.

Looking forward to the rest of the summer with you.