(Photos by the Dailylife Wife and me!)
Last year late in our stay the Dailylife Wife heard about Oatman and wanted to go see it.
https://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/03/the-wild-burros-of-oatman-arizona.html
It was too late and too far for a quick trip last year, but I recalled it was somewhere around Kingman, or at least a lot closer than to Clarkdale! So we decided to make for a shorter day and got a Holiday Inn reservation and dropped off the trailer in Kingman. Then it was off to see the burros!
It is ten miles of long straight road…then 12 miles of curvy mountain highway!
This was the original route of the Mother Road: Route 66. Some of the old kitschy places still exist along the way, but this was the only open one.
You never know what will attack your tires up in these mountains!
Indeed the signs remind you this was Route 66!
And the Dailylife Wife assures me this is a cactus near a mission or something, and not a septic system under an outhouse…
What is that I see in the roadway?
Now they tell us.
Rough country, indeed! That is our road up here.
Oatman! Three photo panorama.
In town…
You don’t see this sign so much anymore…
On the way backdown the mountain…
“Excuse me…”
“I’d like to talk to you about your automobile warrantee…”
One last look back at the Black Mountains and Oatman, Arizona!
~Curtis in Utah, Nevada and /\rizona! {!-{>
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