Event Coverage Road trip on Rout 66

If it's still there, they have an awesome coe. I have to apologize, there was one I forgot to mention, and I think you drove around it when you took the old route66 to San Jon. Russel's truck stop at the first I40 exit in NM from the Texas border. 20 or so outstanding cars always on display, and it's free.

 

Stop @ Bozo's car collection just on the west end of Sana Rosa NM.

 

Spent last night in Grants Nm. The WYFI didn't work, tonight we are in Holbrook AZ. Dead tired after stumbling around the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest today, post car pictures a little later.

 

Went out to the blue hole in Santa Rosa in the mourning yesterday, all I can say is, It's blue and it's a hole. People SCUBA dive in it.

 

Then went back to Bozo's museum, there's about 30 cars and it's nicely done.

 

Then we drove to this place, if you like looking at old wrecking yards you'll love this.

 

A few more.
It goes on and on but I'm not up to the challenge of posting all of it.

 

Then we hit the road. We went past a rock formation called the owl .
And one of the many dead mans curves.
on a long lonesome section of Historic 66 and ended up at the Sands Motel in Grants.

 

Today we got up early and hit the road, the section we drove was beautiful desert land.

 

Across the Continental divide in to Arizona and to the Painted Desert and Petrified forest, Historic 66 runs through the park.

 

Next trip out, we are going to do the Oatman/Topeck part of the Route

 

Thanks again Mike for this awesome coverage of your trip, totally cool. JW

 

Bozo owns that place also.

 

That's a surprise. He's got lifetime supply of projects.

 

Man, I could spend a week in an old yard like that. All that kind of yard went to the crushers here years ago. Just as well though, as the acid rain eats them away here nowadays.

 

The salvage yard is in Santa Rosa?
I love that COE.

 

Yep, in Santa Rosa just down the street from Bozo's car collection. And the Coe is a work of art.

 

It's in Moriarty and I've learned it's part of Bozo's collection, it's called the Lewis Antique auto and toy museum .

 

We tried to get a room in Selegman tonight but the place was booked up by tour busses and quite frankly a mad house so we had dinner at the Road Kill Café and zoomed to Kingman on I 40. We will double back in the mourning and drive the historic route tomorrow.

 

We drove mostly today, hopscotching from I 40 to sections of 66.
we drove past a bunch of trading posts and relics like twin arrows,
and an old bridge
It had a few battle scars Stopped to look at the ruins of two guns Az.

 

Stood on a corner in Winslow Az.



And Webecca Wode a Wabbit

 

Great shots, thanks for posting. Nice to see a Caddy guy wearing a Ford tee shirt.
Twenty seven years ago before my wife and I got married, we were on a weekent to Vegas from Colorado. We pulled up at a stop sign in the middle of the night in downtown Winslow, I looked in my rearview mirror, nothing coming, jumped out of the car, ran across the street and just stood on the corner. Connie yelled "what are you doin'?"

 

Texas 57 writes "Nice to see a Caddy guy wearing a Ford tee shirt." I'm a Ford guy that owns a Caddy.
Started retirement with the notion of restoring one 1957 Cadillac because when I was a kid I thought they were the neatest thing since sliced bread. Now that that's almost over I've got a few fords to finish. I think I can do all of them for what I spent on the Cad.

 

I join in - cool trip

 

We doubled back to Selegman today to drive the historic section of 66 to Kingman. The terrain goes from wide meadows to craggy and rocky cliffs, there are a few land marks and historic stop overs along the way. Someone put up replicas f the old bermashave signs along this section of road.
Fun to read as you drive along.

 

Road side attractions.

 

And an old section of 66 with a bridge in Crozier Canyon.

 

Stopped at the Hackberry store and bought a BIG Hunk bar, I used to love those things when I was a kid.

 

If you have a business along 66 you need a bunch of rusty old cars to display out front.

 

Seegman was full of tour busses and tourists from all over the world.