Get your groove on Route 66

Get your Groove on Route 66....  
Weather - nice day for a ride.  Sunny and high of 79 but gusty winds of up to 30 mph around Valle Verde.  Then it cleared up for the remainder of the 70 miles which were relatively straight and kind of boring....  sorry but the other section is just better cause of the winding roads along the mountain sides.  Tip:  If you choose a spot to ride on Route 66 we like the section from Kingman to Oatman to Topock much much better.

Haboob or dust storm

We hit a dust storm riding on route 66 just outside of Kingman in Valle Verde.  Good thing we had face rags to pull up over our mouth and nose.  Dirty!  They call them a Haboob which is a type of intense of dust storm that is carried on an atmospheric gravity current.  Seriously we did not make that up:) 

Hackberry General Store

1957 Corvette - Let's take this as a souvenir

the bikes are out today cruising

Once past the haboob we stopped at a cool old General Store in Hackberry.  Lots of 1950's memorabilia.  Walk around outside there are all kinds of old cars and memory jerkers and inside too.  Everyone was coming out with a souvenir.  Good thing we are in the RV we can't buy all that stuff!   Further on down Route 66 in Seligman we saw the popular old spot that is still in business, the Snow Cap Drive In.  A few of the shops are quite geared to the 1950's era and the tourists want to see that.   While we stopped in town we saw '4' big tour buses unloading and the passengers were out on foot to find their T shirts and coffee cups!

Snowcap Drive In  

another favorite tourist spot in Seligman