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Why The 19th Century Was So Lovely in the End.

17-Apr-12

http://thmiii.com/case/7 Because, for all its problems, you can bet that even in a town like Tombstone, Arizona, “the rottenest place you ever saw,” in the 19th century someone somewhere in town had a bust of Goethe.

Holbrook, Arizona.

01-Apr-12

http://californiawithkids.com/legal/ Much of northeastern Arizona is high, dry plain, one of the landforms least appealing to me; the dryness and dustiness seemed to increase the further I got from Flagstaff, and most things looked pretty ugly by the time I rolled into Holbrook, a gray-yellow dusty town of boxy concrete buildings. I am by nature not […]

Winslow, Arizona.

01-Apr-12

I passed through Winslow, Arizona, and attempted to get a meal, which failed.  There wasn’t much in town, which seems to now hang all its hopes on the Eagles song.  A tourist shop stands opposite the famed corner, which was the only thing open in town besides a Circle K.  I stood for awhile on […]

Nullify: verb: to make into nothing, to render insignificant

01-Apr-12

Winslow, Arizona.

Meteor Junction, Arizona.

01-Apr-12

Encounter with Route 66.

01-Apr-12

Heading back to I-40 from Meteor Crater I saw down a side road what appeared to be a large ruined structure, of a kind of stony substantiality very unusual in these parts – indeed it looked from a distance like the ruins of Gabii, one of the little towns which had vanished into the maw […]

Brief Visit to Flagstaff and on to Meteor Crater.

31-Mar-12

There was no room at the inn at the Grand Canyon, so after spending the day there I headed for Flagstaff, which had a youth hostel.  I figured I could relive my youth as well as be down only $20 for the night, as opposed to 50.  I got to bed around midnight, entering into […]

The Grand Canyon.

30-Mar-12

Definitely the best and biggest thing I saw in Arizona.  Probably best in pictures, of course.

Grand Canyon with People.

28-Mar-12

To Williams, Arizona.

27-Mar-12

Route 66 runs on high ground in central Arizona, and the town of Williams, where I stopped for the night, has an elevation of 6,800 feet.  After sunbathing before lunch surrounded by bikini-clad beachgoers in Lake Havasu City, in Williams I slept where the snow was piled high in the streets.  I was refreshed by […]