Re: Help Please? Getting Off the Interstate (where possible)
| January 01, 2020 11:05AM |
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Russo Loco Wrote:
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> Rich Murray Wrote:
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> > I have no quarrel with that! You can get a good
> > feel for the country from the interstates but
> you
> > will learn more about it and its people by
> getting
> > off them. (interstates)
>
>
> Right, Rich -
>
> Coming from the west, I try to take Old U.S. 66 as
> much as possible in eastern CA and western AZ,
> except between Needles and Kingman where it's a
> wide detour on a very slow road that's slowed even
> further by the tourist trap at the old mining town
> of Oatman, so it's I-40 along that stretch and
> also from Ash Fork to Flagstaff where Old 66 is
> pretty much under I-40 so there's not really a
> choice. Also, there were some bridges out
> between Ludlow and Essex a couple of years ago,
> and I'm not sure if that section has been
> re-opened.
Russ, looking back over my time I’m not sure now if I was more influenced by Charles Kuralt’s “on the Road” or Jack Kerouac’s. Maybe it was just Willie’s “On the Road Again” in my ears. Whichever, I managed route 66 west to Seligman, AZ. But I don’t wish to hi-jack this thread so will refrain from boring readers with my reminiscing (AKA “memory droppings”).
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/01/2020 12:25PM by Rich Murray.
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> Rich Murray Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I have no quarrel with that! You can get a good
> > feel for the country from the interstates but
> you
> > will learn more about it and its people by
> getting
> > off them. (interstates)
>
>
> Right, Rich -
>
> Coming from the west, I try to take Old U.S. 66 as
> much as possible in eastern CA and western AZ,
> except between Needles and Kingman where it's a
> wide detour on a very slow road that's slowed even
> further by the tourist trap at the old mining town
> of Oatman, so it's I-40 along that stretch and
> also from Ash Fork to Flagstaff where Old 66 is
> pretty much under I-40 so there's not really a
> choice. Also, there were some bridges out
> between Ludlow and Essex a couple of years ago,
> and I'm not sure if that section has been
> re-opened.
Russ, looking back over my time I’m not sure now if I was more influenced by Charles Kuralt’s “on the Road” or Jack Kerouac’s. Maybe it was just Willie’s “On the Road Again” in my ears. Whichever, I managed route 66 west to Seligman, AZ. But I don’t wish to hi-jack this thread so will refrain from boring readers with my reminiscing (AKA “memory droppings”).
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/01/2020 12:25PM by Rich Murray.
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