All aboard! See what it’s like to ride a heritage excursion train near Sedona, Arizona.
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Two Lane Gems, Vol. 1: Chapter 18 – How to Survive an Epic Road Trip and Not Kill Your Partner
Our night in Winslow was gloriously uneventful. We booked a cheap motel instead of camping as originally planned, found a local pizza buffet, and by 8 o’clock I was in bed. GLORIOUS, I tell you. Before we left I made – ahem, I mean, I asked Jim nicely to stand on the corner and sing …
Two Lane Gems, Vol. 1: Chapter 17 – The Singing Road and Stuff Carved Into Rocks
Finding a Route 66 treasure and carvings from long ago.
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Two Lane Gems, Vol. 1: Chapter 16 – Real Life Happened Here
Step into a home where everything has meaning.
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Two Lane Gems, Vol. 1: Chapter 15 – Where the Past is Always Present
Previous: Chapter 14 – The Beauty & Danger of Bed & Breakfasts My first visit to Albuquerque was in the early ‘90s. I remember stepping off the plane onto the tarmac and feeling at peace, like I was home, even though I was an Indiana girl living in western Virginia and this high desert was …
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Two Lane Gems, Vol. 1: Chapter 14 – The Beauty & Danger of Bed & Breakfasts
What’s the #1 reason you don’t want to stay in a bed and breakfast? Come on. You can say it. You’re in a safe place. It’s the breakfast part, isn’t it. It’s not the breakfast itself. You know that’s going to be tasty. It’s the people at breakfast. You just never know who’s going to …
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Two Lane Gems, Vol. 1: Chapter 13 – An Anti-Tourist Trap Tour of a Tourist Destination
You might expect a tourist destination to be filled with tourist traps. You know, overpriced restaurants, gaudy shops offering cheap merchandise, and souvenir emporiums designed to get you to leave as much money as possible before you go. Old Town Albuquerque is most assuredly a tourist destination, but if the places we visited are any …
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Two Lane Gems, Vol. 1: Chapter 12 – Meeting the Greatest Generation
Previous: Chapter 11 – Camping Should be a Pre-Marriage Requirement The drive into Albuquerque was an endless stream of giant yellow billboards extolling the many virtues of the Flying C Ranch. One after another after another and another and another they tease you, exhort you, beckon you to forget whatever destination is plugged into your …
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Two Lane Gems, Vol. 1: Chapter 11 – Camping Should be a Pre-Marriage Requirement
Previous: Chapter 10 – Surviving I-40 with Buried Cars, a Blue Hole, and a Big Hunk As we got back on I-40 for the short drive, relatively speaking, to Albuquerque, I thought about everything we’d seen and done since we’d left home only six days ago. When I first had the idea for this trip, …
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Two Lane Gems, Vol. 1: Chapter 10 – Surviving I-40 with Buried Cars, a Blue Hole, and a Big Hunk
Previous: Chapter 9 – Texas is Huge. Canyons are Deep. Turkeys are Jerks. There are no two ways around it: I-40 through the Texas panhandle is a beast. That’s primarily because there are no two ways around it. You can take Route 66, but that parallels the interstate so closely that, unless you’re on a …
Two Lane Gems, Vol. 1: Chapter 9 – Texas is Huge. Canyons are Deep. Turkeys are Jerks.
We learned a few things camping and hiking in Palo Duro Canyon State Park.
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Two Lane Gems, Vol. 1: Chapter 8 – Random, Schmandom
Selecting Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and Palo Duro Canyon State Park as destinations for this road trip was based on geography, geology, and convenience. We wanted to camp, we wanted to avoid I-40 as much as possible while heading in a somewhat direct east-west direction, and we wanted to experience natural grandeur. Other than those …
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