David Massey wrote:
>
> Wow! Just drove the section of old Route 66 from Kingman AZ to
> Golden Shores (the California border) What a drive. It's hard
> to believe that this once was the major East-West route through
> this part of the country. If you are ever in this part of the
> country, DRIVE IT! I don't care what you are driving, drive it.
> It doesn't have to be an LBC (although that would be the best)
> any car will do. I drove it in a 6 ton truck and had a ball.
>
> The section is mostly like any desert highway with long sections
> that are straight as an arrow and flat. And with sections that
> rise and fall with the terrain but there is a section that climbs
> up over a 3500 ft pass defies description. Let's just say that
> it was built with a minimal impact technique. It was most
> probably built during the thirties by hand labor. There was
> no "cut and fill" here. This road follows the contours of the
> canyon walls with minimal excavation and fill to provide a flat
> roadway. This means switchbacks. This means up close to the
> canyon walls seeing all the flora and fauna and the geology and
> the terrain and, and, and all the stuff you don't see driving
> the interstate because when they build an interstate they use
> large earth moving equipment to move huge amounts of fill to
> create a roadbed that is predominately flat and straight destroying
> much of the adjacent landscape.
>
> Uh, I feel a soapbox comming on so I'll quit here.
>
> Dave Massey
> Writing from San Bernardino Hilton for now.
Dave,
All you need now is a late 50's/early 60's Vette and a partner named
George Maharis, then you'd have the entire package. (If you are not at
least 50, you may not understand this)
Joe Curry '63 Spit (undergoing cosmedic surgery)
|