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Barbara Brannon
Sep 193 min read
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...
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Barbara Brannon
Sep 195 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...
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Barbara Brannon
Sep 194 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...
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Barbara Brannon
Sep 196 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...
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Barbara Brannon
Sep 186 min read
Back in Texas—but not home yet
ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 6 Crossing the state line westbound from Oklahoma brings us into familiar territory—not just because it’s the state...
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Barbara Brannon
Sep 186 min read
Oklahoma, green hills to Panhandle
ROUTE 66 RAMBLE, PART 4 Oklahoma has more drivable miles of Route 66 than any other state. And “drivable,” as twenty-first-century...
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