Thanks for visiting and goodbye for now. I'll start a new blog soon.

"Not all who wander are lost." JR Tolkien

Williams, Arizona, is a small mountain town on Route 66 at the Grand Canyon junction.

I'm busily processing photos of my trip.  Enjoy this Laurel and Hardy
song and dance in the old west.
Way Out West

Last day in Northern Arizona before hitting the road again.

Route 66 through the Mojave Desert

 

 "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Yogi Berra  Highway Route 66 was the first U.S. transcontinental road that went from Chicago, Illinois to Los Angeles, California

 I met motorcyclists who rode Route 66 from as far away as Illinois and Houston, Texas.

 My family migrated from Nebraska to California on this road in 1947. I love the empty space.

"A desert is a place without expectation." Nadine Gorimer
Not so, for me. I expect the light to constantly change as it plays in the sand.

"And all around is the mournful kingdom of sand." Pierre Loti

I used the Camera+ app to edit these shots taken on my iPod while driving across the Mohave Desert.

The California Mohave Desert has some quirky people. There was the king of toilet seat arts-John Kostopoulos, and in Barstow, an outdoor museum of wrecked cars called "Vehicles from Hell."

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust

"If you are going through hell, keep going." Winston Churchill

The mining pit in the Mojave desert that produces borax. (I use it for laundry and cleaning.)
They plan to run out of boron within five years. Then, they hope to switch to another similar mineral.

"I can feel the heat closing in" William Burroughs, Naked Lunch

Hwy 40 toward Needles, CA

"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." Susan Sontag

A hot day on Hwy 99 near Bakersfield.

"You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars." Charles Kuralt

Grandmother Hatti on a road trip out West from Kansas City, MO, before she married.

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
Marcel Proust

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else." Tom Stoppard

Hwy 99 to Bakersfield

Can't wait to drive the heavily beaten path along Hwy 99 to Bakersfield. I've reserved cheap motel rooms there and in Needles. If the picture gods are kind, I should post pictures along the way of highways, parking lots, fast food restaurants and more.