Road Trip!
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Route 66, A Town Called Nothing, & the Mysterious THING?!!!
We spent the night in Kingman, Arizona (contracting a thankfully brief bout of food poisoning at the local Crack Barrel), then continued along Historic Route 66 the next morning. When people think Road Trip, the first highway that comes to mind is invariably Route 66, and for good reason. Since it was established as a…
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Vegas, The Hoover Dam, and a Strange Little Town Called Chloride (Weirdest Cemetery in the US?)
Las Vegas wasn’t a stop on the roadtrip either of us were desperate to visit, but we really had no choice. There are only two or three highways that head south in Nevada, and all end up in Vegas, so it was a sensible place to spend the night. I’d post pictures, but they’re the…
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Utah & Nevada: Salt Lake City, A Cursed Hotel, A Haunted Ghost Town, and Car Trouble
I had three initial impressions after driving around downtown Salt Lake City: 1) it was very clean, 2) it was very quiet, and 3) there was construction everywhere. Seriously, every single turn brought us to another two or three buildings going up in the heart of downtown: Even old buildings were going through significant renovations:…
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Crossing Utah: Ghost Towns, Dinosaurs, Arches, and a Home in a Rock
After leaving Blanding, Utah, we didn’t even have to travel to a national park to see our first arch of the day, which was right along the highway: Our goal was to travel north to Arches National Park, then rejoin old US-50 (renamed US-6 in Utah) and spend the night in Salt Lake City. Of…