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South on US Route 666.....
The Devil's Highway? Are you trying to say it's hot where you're headed - or is there really a Route 666? ;-)
sasob
Posted by: smartass sob | July 02, 2009 at 05:04 PM
Rte 666 is actually OLD Rte 666 and is now called US 191 in Arizona (491 in NM). There was nothing sinister in the numbering, it was simply the sixth spur of Rte 66. But, boy howdy, you can imagine how the rumors and innuendo grew over the years. Couple the BEAST with the switchbacks, sheer desolation, higher than avg car wrecks on some stretches and you can see how the legend grew into the Devils Hiway. After 66 was decertified the states, for some reason, decided they didn't want 666 numbered as so and eventually the feds conceded.
The part we drove was from the back side of the Petrified Forest down through the Sitgreaves and Apache National Forests and on to Safford (home of the 7th grade girl who was strip searched in a vain attempt to find an illicit Advil) and then to Tucson. It took about seven hours (one of which was an accumulation of times pulling off the road to say WOW). Change in elevation from 4k to 11k and in some parts speed limit was 10mph. The whole thing is gorgeous.
The Bonus is that the route more or less follows Coronado's trail when he was searching for the seven cities of gold. Second bonus is that it is truly empty land and looks very much the same now as it did four hundred years ago. The kids got a kick out of seeing a pack of Javalenas, deer, wild mountain goats, and eagles.
Posted by: TWC | July 02, 2009 at 06:34 PM
We missed a left turn at Albuquerque...
Yeah, if you hadn't missed it, you'd have ended up in west Texas. Come to think of it, New Mexico used to be west Texas anyway. ;-) If you ever decide to move here, you should check out the Texas hill country just west of Austin. It's not quite as rugged as your part of the southwest, but it's similar enough that you wouldn't get homesick. ;-) In fact, the farther west of Austin you go, the rougher it gets.
...follows Coronado's trail when he was searching for the seven cities of gold.
Ah! The seven cities of Cibola, otherwise known as El Dorado. Every Texas schoolboy learns about Coronado's journeys - or used to. Who knows what they teach them now?
The whole thing is gorgeous.
I'll just bet that's right. I hope you took lots of photos. I envy you your trip; the only time I've ever been out to the southwestern US was about 40 years ago when I took a bus home from San Diego. There wasn't much to see on I-8 and I-10 - or if there was, we passed it while I was sleeping. ;-)
sasob
Posted by: smartass sob | July 02, 2009 at 11:59 PM