GET YOUR KICKS ON ROUTE 66

 Geni and I our winding down our time in Beautiful Arizona, we have a week left here at sundance resort. We spent a few days in the Grand Canyon last week (next blog) and took Route 66 from the start of it in Arizona at Coolsprings mile marker 165 to Williams Arizona where we headed North to the Canyon. Geni and I rode this part of RT66 in 2001but we were on a Harley that we rented in Phoenix, It still looks the same 17 years later! I always wanted to stay in a old style Motel and we did in Kingman. It was pretty cool too, the old rooms were still pretty much the same as in the 40's when the El Trovatore was built. The owner also owned the Flamigo in Vegas so a lot of the big music acts would stay over night here before they arrived in Vegas.

   For those of you that are not familial with RT66, its called the mother road of highways. It was built in 1926,The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in the United States, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before ending at Santa Monica, California, covering a total of 2,448 miles. Many family's in America would pack the station wagon full and head out for their vacation to the west coast on RT66.
It would travel thur small town America that had main streets with movie theaters, dime stores with soda fountains, old style dinners with big cheese burgers, its sad to see these small towns no longer are around!

LINK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_66

                                                                                            

Hotel Escalante Ash fork Arizona

 Hotel Escalante Link: https://truewestmagazine.com/hotel-escalante-the-grand-harvey-house-in-ash-fork-arizona/

Kingman Arizona

Cool Springs Arizona

El Trovatore, Kingman

Kingman

Kingman

Route 66 Museum, Kingman

Seligman, Arizona

Seligman, Arizona

Seligman, Arizona

Williams, Arizona

                                                                                                       

YUMA ARIZONA - The Palms RV Resort

My Brother and Sister in law are spending the winter in Yuma, AZ. from the cold weather in Idaho. They are staying at The Palms Resort and what a resort it is! There should be some sort of standard when RV parks name their self. I have been to many RV parks that call their self Resorts and to only find out after I have paid that they are nothing but low end RV parks. That is not the case here however, the palms is truly a 1st class resort that you can rent by the month or you can also purchase a lot and build a small home. They have a restaunt, massage, Library, computer room, game room, hobby room, Billiards room, Concert hall, Bar, two swimming pools , two hot tubs, tennis courts, pickle ball courts, putting green, Church, Gym, and front gate security too! I spend a few days here to wind down and do some hiking and site seeing.

LINK: http://yumapalmsrvresort.com/
                                                                        
                                                                      

                                                            
                                                                              

 

 

                                                                               

                                                                              

YUMA ARIZONA - Army Proving Grounds 75th Anniversary

The United States Army was celebrating its 75th anniversary of its training grounds out in the desert a few miles north of Yuma. It opened in 1943  for testing portable combat bridges because of the abundance of swift flowing water that engineers could control as they wished. Dozens of bridges were constructed over the river , it was also chosen by General George Patton to train his troops in mechanized warfare for WWII. I was a little late for this popular event. I missed the parachute jumping and skydiving along with the parade. But It was a beautiful day anyhow. Where else can I see a live band playing along side of a tank in the U.S. anyhow. This is still a active Army base so we were only aloud in certain areas. The museum was outstanding and is open to the public during the week.
LINK: https://www.army.mil/article/197519/us_army_yuma_proving_ground_to_celebrate_75th_anniversary

                                                                        

Museum is open to public weekdays must get a base pass

 

Nice crowd on hand for this event!

 

 

 

Inside cockpit Blackhawk

No trouble here with a tank keeping watch

Hundreds of controls to memorize

Where's the gas peddle? 

Nice tribute to Battle of Bulge - My father fought in this battle

General Patton with his tank brigade

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LAKE HAVASU AZ. - Thursday Classic Car Show

Lake Havasu is so much more then a London Bridge over the Colorado River, from fabulous fine dinning, local pubs, junk stores bike paths, city parks etc. It really is a complete small town in a beautiful desert. For the last 40 years or so they have had a local classic car show on main street downtown every Thursday. The climate here is so dry vehicles do not rust like they do elsewhere in the country.
Just another day in Paradise!