Arizona Route 66 Side Trip to Meteor Crater Fifty thousand years ago, a giant fireball streaked across the North American sky and crash landed into the desert that is now northern Arizona. Over fifty years ago, NASA used this same spot as one of its lunar training sites. What is this place? If you guessed Barringer’s […]
California Route 66 Side Trip Calico Ghost Town, located in San Bernardino County, is a great Route 66 side trip. A visit to Calico is also a fun day trip if you are already in southern California. Originally established in 1881, Calico is an old West mining town that has been around since the largest silver […]
Help wanted – single young women, 21 to 30 years of age, of good character, attractive and intelligent, to be waitresses in Harvey Eating Houses on the Santa Fe Railroad in the West. Good wages, with room and meals furnished. Experience not necessary. For nearly a century starting in the late 1880s, more than 100,000 […]
Still Hoppin’ on Route 66 Bright yellow billboards advertising cold drinks, snacks and souvenirs dot the sides of highway I-40, encouraging folks to stop. After traveling for miles through the desert landscape in central-eastern Arizona, weary travelers take exit 269. They empty out of their vehicles at the only business still open on this stretch […]
We awakened in the dark of night of the summer solstice. My husband and I were on the road at 3:00 a.m. – heading east from San Diego toward Arizona. The logistics for flying to Louisville, Kentucky – our destination – were not beneficial so our journey became a road trip. With limited vacation time, […]