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ghosts

It felt like ghosts out here in the desert. And this sign definitely reinforced that feeling…

Route 66 – near Fort Cody, California
photographed 6.2.2023

cafe

Maybe it’s not so much a café as it is a little store where you can buy sodas and chips and chocolate. Oh, and some really expensive gas.

Route 66 – Amboy, California
photographed 6.1.2023

hill-top

A long time ago, in a different career, I was sent to Victorville to help out with some stuff at the transit system there. At the time, I thought it was a Very Great Honor to have been selected for the task. But then later, when I got fired from that job, I thought maybe I’d been sent out there as punishment.

That was prior to my becoming a photographer, so I completely missed the scenic possibilities of this hilltop o’ stuff.

Good thing I got a chance to return.

Route 66 – Victorville, California
photographed 6.2.2023

best price

This was one of my favorite places on the Arizona part of Route 66: competing souvenir stores, with large (very) signage throwing shade at each other. Curiously, though, they each promised the “best price” so perhaps there was some price-fixing going on?

Route 66 – Allentown, Arizona
photographed 5.30.2023

post 8737

This place looked rugged. The neighborhood felt sketchy. There was a cop parked in the back corner of the parking lot.

I did not stick around…

Route 66 – Los Angeles, California
photographed 6.2.2023