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Home to Texas—with Mother Road memories
ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART THE LAST We’re often prompted by leisure-travel marketers to think of our journeys as “making memories,” and...
Barbara Brannon
Sep 19, 20243 min read


California dreamin’ and driving
ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 8 In the American consciousness, California occupies a fabled throne: lodestone of the Golden West, goal of the...
Barbara Brannon
Sep 19, 20245 min read


Animals all across Arizona
ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 7, ARIZONA Arriving at the eastern edge of Arizona at dusk means two things: that the 149 miles between here...
Barbara Brannon
Sep 19, 20244 min read


Route 66 through New Mexico: Light across the high desert
ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 6 New Mexico likes to call itself the Land of Enchantment. And so it is, quite often, for their next-door neighbors...
Barbara Brannon
Sep 19, 20246 min read
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