Route 50 – By the Numbers

A few people have asked some questions concerning how far, how many, how much, etc. So I figured that I would just put together a quick ‘by the numbers’ post. Just in order to get our statistical figures correct we need to know how many days this excursion took. For those of you following along …

Route 50 – Postscript

One of the first things that I did when I got home was to go through the nice collection of mail that I had collected over the last two and a half weeks. One of the things that was in the mail was a packet from the Nevada Division of Tourism. Route 50 got the …

Route 50 – Day 18

This is the last day of the road trip. I had three things on the docket for today. The first was to see the last remaining 9′ wide section of the original Route 66 road. More on that in a moment. The second was to visit the Route 66 Vintage Iron Motorcycle Museum, but when …

Route 50 – Day 17

The goal for today was to get out of New Mexico and cross Oklahoma so that all I would have to do on my last day was cross Missouri and head on into Illinois to get home. Yep, of course I called an audible and ended up stopping by the Stafford Air and Space Museum. …

Route 50 – Day 16 (Part 2)

I originally planned for three days to cover about 1500 miles just to get my butt back home after Flagstaff. Today was to be the first of those days. My ‘part 1’ post explained how I got into my hotel after 2:00 AM in the morning. I did leave out an interesting exchange that I …

Rotue 50 – Day 16 (Part 1)

Day 16 turned out to be a rather interesting day. I’m not going to post any photos until later since I am heading to bed to capture some sleep. But I thought you would get a kick out of the outline for today versus what actually transpired. Given Day 15’s early balloon flight, me taking …

Route 50 – Day 15 (Part 2)

There are a couple of things that I didn’t write about when I first told you about day 15. This is probably due to the fact that I was trying to get caught up on my blog posts, while catching up on sleep and trying to figure out where I was going to land at …

Route 50 – Day 15

So on day 15 of trip I stayed in Flagstaff for one more day. This was because I was scheduled to take a balloon ride over the Red Rocks area by Sedona. The only other time that I have been in a hot air balloon was during a party that I threw at my house …

Route 50 – Day 6 (Part 2)

I completely forgot about a wonderful dining experience that I had that was completely unexpected. After spending the day looking around Ely, I tried to find a nice place to eat for dinner. I landed at the Jail House Hotel and Casino. Enjoy the pics. This ended up being a rather cute and cozy little …

Route 50 – Day 14

Today I just relaxed and hung around Flagstaff. I have only seen Sedona at dusk (or later) so I went and drove around Sedona just to see what all the talk is about. For the last several weeks there has been a huge forest fire around Flagstaff. As a result of the fire, the sky …