More ROOT 66 Photos

 The motel

 Light fixture in the motel

 Cool car

 Tent area...3 walls to keep the wind off

Signs of the Times.....

 Which bank would YOU have posted this sign on during our economic down turn?

This can't do much for Arizona's tourism

If you want to stay in an RV park where your head is only 50 ft from the Interstate 40 and your feet are only 20 ft away from the frontage road........
AND where the boarded up motel is near your bedroom window.....
AND where the guy next to you is in a motorhome that you could actually touch if you opened the window.......
AND the building on the property (other than the boarded up motel rooms) only has 3 walls.....
AND where the laundry will take about half of my budget just to do 2 loads.......
All gravel, no trees,
WELL...this is the place for you!  The ROOT66 RV Park in Holbrook. No, I did not misspell it.
Here are some photos...which, honestly, do NOT do it justice.  These are the GOOD ones.....the oness that go on the internet..I will download the rest and post them later

 Pottery Sherds

 Collared Lizard

 Standin' on the corner in Winslow Arizona

Much of Winslow looks like this

Standing on the corner in Winslow Arizona……..

Winslow….the town where time stands still.  The buildings are old and mostly crumbling as are the homes. Its claim to fame is the Eagles song “Take it easy” which is what brings the tourists to “the corner”.  The La Posada hotel (another Mary Jane Colter masterpiece) is beautiful.  But the real reason we are here is to see the Homolovi ruins.  A nice campground greeted us at the Homolovi State Park and we had one of the nicest “ruins” experiences we have ever had.  So many artifacts are just lying in the dirt to see and touch.  Most of the ruins we have been to in the past have been “homogenized” and can only be seen from a distance.  At Homolovi you can inspect them close up.  The thought of touching artifacts (the whole artifacts have been removed and what is left are the shards and pictographs) that someone made a thousand years ago with his or her own hands is quite a feeling. 

Fuel prices here have been great.  We just filled up at Winslow for $3.25 per gallon. Woo-Hoo! The motorhome which seems to get 6.50 to 7.0 mpg at home has been averaging around 8.35mpg so we are happy campers!

My allergies kicked up and my nose is raw from dripping.  I’m hoping that will go away as we head for the Petrified Forest and Painted Desert on Sunday.

I will post some photos when I have a good wifi connection .