Category: Boarding Group 2 Travel Blog
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Route 66 Day 18: Wait….What?
Today we left Albuquerque and headed west continuing our Route 66 Trip through New Mexico. The landscape shifted outside the window between grassland, shrubs, trees, lava fields…… Wait, what? Lava Fields? Yup, we drove by the McCarty lava field today- it was striking. Apparently, these are the youngest and longest lava flows on the continent. Some of…
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Route 66 Day 19: Say Ah…..
For the first time since Illinois, back when we first started off on our journey, we had rain last night. We didn’t hear it, but this morning the misty clouds hung low and covered the horizon. It was quite pretty, and a nice change to the usual clear blue skies. We stepped outside in the…
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Route 66 Day 20: Takin’ It Easy
We enjoyed the Petrified Forest National Park so much, we decided to get up early this morning and be at the park when it opened, to catch early morning star shine on the rock formations. The difference of the early morning light, with coolness in the air, truly did make the colors pop and we…
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Route 66 Day 21: The Grand De-Tour
We left Winslow, Arizona and decided it was time to change up the itinerary and make some De-Tours. Well, not any De-Tour would do, these needed to be on the order of monumental, magnificent, even grand! What better way to start off the De-Tour than to go to a nearby Meteor Crater. The meteor was…
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Route 66 Day 22: Grand Designs
We have enjoyed being near the Grand Canyon so much we decided to make it a 2 day de-tour! We woke early before sunturning and travelled to a spot to capture the morning rays. There was a beautiful light yellow/orange glow to the horizon. There was also a wonderful silence- I’ll call it Canyon quiet-…
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Route 66 Day 23: Thank You, Thank You Very Much
We returned to our Route 66 travels this morning as we said goodbye and thank you to the Grand Canyon. We enjoyed our time in the wilderness so very much. We never quite know what the flavor of the day’s travel will be. Today’s flavor seemed to be fun. What’s more fun than acres and…
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Route 66 Day 24: A Close Shave!
We were greeted on the route today with beautiful billowy clouds that looked like exclamation points over the scenic rock formations. We also enjoyed a long stretch of Route 66 peppered with Burma-Shave signs! Art and I quickly coordinated capturing the signs- Art keeping the car at a constant speed while I photographed the signs…
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Route 66 Day 25: California or Bust
We woke early this morning to talk further with the rental car agency after our rental car stranded us last night (See our Route 66 Day 24: A Close Shave blog post). The agency was again very helpful, and made arrangements for us to visit the local rental agency office in Kingman. In fact, it was just…
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Route 66 Day 26: Roses in the Desert
We were excited for today as we planned to drive the part of Route 66 that traverses the Mojave Desert. Art travelled through this area as a teenager, but didn’t recall much of it, and it was novel for me! As we started our day’s travels from Needles, California, we passed this bouquet of palm…
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Route 66 Day 27: Eureka!
With our driving through the desert complete, we headed off to make our way further into California. There was a palpable difference in many ways to our travels today. We had lots of company. The small towns we passed through were more populated, and suddenly there were many more cars on the road with seemingly…
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