Old Route 66 Between Truxton and Valentine

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cagele 13 Krey 4K Merr KNE ze 1846 CE SILMARE DEE MA BETWEEN TRUXTON AND VALENTINE, ARIZONA OLD 66 DESCENDS THROUGH SEVERAL SMALL CANYONS, DOWN OFF THE VAST COLORADO PLATEAU, & OUT ONTO THE BROAD PLAINS OF THE BASIN & RANGE PROVINCE. PYGMY FORESTS OF JUNIPER & PINON GIVE WAY TO TRUE DESERT SPECIES: CREOSOTE BUSH, BURRO BUSH, 4-WING SALTBUSH, OCOTILLO, CRUCIFIXION THORN, MESQUITE AS ROUTE 66 ENTERS THE LAST GREAT BIOREGION ON ITS JOURNEY TO THE SEA: THE MOJAVE DESERT, ONE OF THE GREAT DESERTS OF NORTH AMERICA. OLD ROUTE 66 Scenes R. Waldmire @

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ROUTE 66 WAS CERTIFIED IN 1926 OF CROSS- 1936, WHEN THE NATION ADOPTED A NUIMBERED SYSTEM COUNTRY, INTER-STATE ROADS. FULLY PAVED BY ROUTE 66 BECAME AN IMPORTANTE LEGENDARY HIGHWAY IMMORTALIZED IN LITERATURE, MUSIC, & ON TELEVISION. GRADUALLY "REPLACED BY HUGE HOMOGENEOUS "INTERSTATES," 66 WAS DECERTIFIED IN 1985, CEASING TO EXIST BUT WELL OVER 80% OF THE OLD ROAD IS OFFICIALLY: STILL PRIVEABLE so, TRAVEL BACK IN TIME, & LEAVE THE STRESS BEHIND ON THE INTERSTATES... AND THEN, YOU TOO WILL SAY: I STILL GET MY KICKS, ON OLD ROUTE 661 SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL OLD IS BEAUTIFUL SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL SAFE IS BEAUTIFUL. Pacific Ocean LINEV./ SANTA MONICA! LOS ANGELES CAL. Great ASADENA Basin DESER BARSTOW TUDLOW- SAN BERNARDINO MOLLEXO NEED Grand Canyon TO POCK COLORADO R MAN HORTMAN SELIGMAN ASH FORK WILLIAMS WINONA- WINSLOW- FLAGSTAFF JOSEPA CITY HOLBROOKO GALLUP Colorado Plateац UTAH COLO: GRANDE RIO ARIZ NM. 1& Punted Desart Petrifiad Forest THOREAU OPANTS CONT DIVIDE 62563 MORIARTY SANTA ROSA SIONITTI 110. ROCHESTER TUCUMCARI Box WALDMIRE, R. R. 2.1 Jo. R. still the best way west! TAKE OLD MAIN STREET,USA- ChicagotoL.A.! ALMOST ALL THE WAY! ALBUQUERQUE (write small) BLENRIO VEGA LL OKI.A HAN. TEKSUS VEGA (midway on 66) ARCADIA EDMOND OXLAHOMA CITY MCLEAN TIT GROOM CAMARILLO Prairie THER FORD HYDRO ELK CITY SHAMROCK Province OKLA ок EL RENOW R. Walda GALENA- BAXTER SPGS. KANSAS MISSOUR -HALLT PACIFIC 3 SULLIYAN- CUBA- -SAPULPA TULSA BRISTOW DEPEN CHANDLER CHICAGO LLINOI SAINT LOUIS O MIAMI VINITA CLAREMORE BROADWELL JOPLIN CARTHAGE LEBANON CONWAN -25. ST. JAMES ROLLA WAYNES VILLE OA OSPRINGFIELD Lake Michigan ARK PLATEAU JOLIET DWIGHT PONTIAC LINCOLN SPRINGFIELD LITCHFIELD MT. OLIVE EDWARDSVILLE GRANITE CITY EAST ST. LOUIS Mississippi R 1990 PRINTED ON 100% RECYCLED STOCK