Tina, Step and I are headed to Tucson for a party on
Saturday, December 29th… We
plan to drive to Paso Robles on the 26th… then to Tucson… then home…
Steph is flying home…
We need places to stop… Important places… I may be thinking about where to stop… I may
be consulting Road Trip America… a site dedicated to wonderful wacky places… http://www.roadsideamerica.com/
Day 1, There
isn’t much in the Salinas Valley… we will
save our time for wine tasting in Paso…
Day 2, Heading
from Paso Robles to Tucson,
On Hwy 46, at the jct of Hwy 33 the last place James Dean
stopped for gas… I think a photo is in order…
We could stop at Original
McDonald's Site, Museum… Bonus:
Behind the museum Juan Pollo gag delivery cars. Address:
1398 North E St., San
Bernardino, CA
A easy one is the Cabazon Dinosaurs atop Beaumont Pass We may just want to wave, but they reportedly
have a shop in the belly of one of them…
Shields Date
Garden in the Date Capital of the World…
They have date milk shakes…80225 US Highway 111, Indio, CA this is likely a “must do” We have been talking about date shakes for
years… according to some the movie… The Sex Life of Dates it particularly special…
I am going for a shake…
General Patton
Memorial Museum… Chiriaco Summit, CA - http://generalpattonmuseum.com/ I doubt we will stop, but we can wave at the
tanks displayed outside…
There are airplanes on sticks and a silly sign in Gila
Bend…
(Time out for a family gathering, a party… in Tucson… )
Now day 4, On
the way back… Now just Tina and I... Steph has flown home... Leaving Tucson towards Kingman… beyond Phoenix… things start to
get interesting…..
Wikieup Trading Post…
with a jail cell photo op… and other tacky things… Nearby there is rocket on a stick with
snoopy riding it cowboy style…18040
S Highway 93, Wikieup, AZ
Kingman, Arizona We will spend the night here... local attractions inclued the 3,333.33
Feet Above Sea Level Marker (Power
House Museum) The museum complex
includes a room dedicated to Andy Devine… a whole room… I figure Mexican food for dinner… maybe a
diner for breakfast…
Day 5, As we
head north we will encounter the Ruins
of Santa Land… 13 miles north of Kingman on Hwy 93 – this should be worth a
stop…
A bit further… Cloride AZ…. Rock and junk art…. A bit off the hwy… Not sure if we will make this one…
Once we reach Nevada,
we can stop in Boulder City, Nevada… to see the
Statue of a Belatedly Appreciated
Outhouse Cleaner Alabam was a Hoover
Dam worker who cleaned and restocked the outhouses. The bronze statue depicts
him as he often looked in life, with rolls of toilet paper draped over his
shoulder. Address: 600 Nevada Way, Boulder City,
NV
We will head out of Las Vegas on Hwy 95… At Hwy 373 we
head south to get to Death Valley Jct… but as we turn at the Junction of Hwy
I-95 and Hwy 373 we will find the Area
51 Alien Center – Really a Truck stop, painted an unfortunate shade of
bright green, with a whore house out back…
Nearby is the world’s largest
firecracker…
There is a giant fiberglass
cow along 373 as we head into Death Valley…
I am fond of the Amagosa Hotel (and Opera House) and Death Valley Jct…
It dates back to the railroad and there plan to create a tourist center in the
Valley about 1929…
Day 6, The next day we will visit Death Valley Scotty’s
Castle… beyond we will loop through Beatty… with a casino parking sign without
a casino…
Outside of town is the ghost town of Rhyolite, with a
real bottle house… and the Goldwell
Open Air Museum… and the 30’ tall pink
lego woman… before heading into Titus Canyon…
We will spend New Years evening, sunset on the dunes… I
will have a bottle of something bubbly… we will sit and watch the sun go down
for the last time in 2013… and toast 2014.
We will spend the night at Stovepipe Wells…
Day 7, New Years… Homeward bound… Leaving Death Valley on
New Years day, heading to the Owens
Valley (the alternative via Trona has been washed out since September) we can
visit the Joshua Tree from The Joshua Tree (U2 album
cover…) of course THE tree has died and fallen, but there are memorials to the
tree and the band…
If Tioga pass is open we will visit Yosemite and the high
country… I am torn… If we can go Tioga the ongoing drought is bad… but what a
drive… More likely Tioga will be closed
and we will drive Walker Pass, to Isabella and the Kern River canyon… If there
is lots of snow (hopefully) we will go over the Tehachapi’s, then north, home…
At least that is
the plan… I suspect you may be able to read about it hear in early January....
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