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Tag Archives: Route 66

Into California.

13-Aug-13

http://nonprofit-success.com/tag/video-2/ It was a short drive from Vegas to the California border. We had done it – we had driven New York to California, from Pizza Box on Bleecker Street to the Giant Sequoias in five days. We ate our lunch in a diner in Barstow, right on Route 66. Barstow could have been any of […]

Encounter with Route 66.

01-Apr-12

Rakovník 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 […]

Yucca, Arizona.

24-Mar-12

Along I-40 I had to pull off to the side of the road to get a glimpse of a plant.  I was fairly sure it was Yucca brevifolia, a Joshua Tree.  It is a signature plant of the Mojave Desert, and is as far as I know naturally absent from the Sonoran Desert area around […]

Route 66, Yucca, Arizona.

24-Mar-12

Onto Route 66.

24-Mar-12

When at El Capitan in Yosemite, the largest cliff face in the world, my geology professor stated that granite was the rock best suited for forming large cliff faces.  When I asked him how we knew that, he said, “Because if there were a better one, there’d be a larger cliff face somewhere else made […]

Route 66.

09-Jan-12

Route 66.

09-Jan-12

I’m driving long days and seeing friends in addition, so there’s not really time to write, but let me just say that I pulled off I-44 today to drive Route 66 from Miami, Oklahoma to Tulsa – and all I can say is wow.  You would think that Route 66 would be a well-marked, touristy […]