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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

wilkerson’s place is melting

The New Mexico sun is hot enough and bright enough – or so it seems – to melt building materials. But really, it’s the infrequent rains that are dissolving the adobe walls of Wilkerson’s place.

Route 66 – Montoya, New Mexico
photographed 5.29.2023

windowsill flowers

I didn’t see all that much to photograph in Sequoyah (sorry, Sequoyah), so I stopped at this rock building, a church, and looked that the stuff in the windows and the other stuff reflected off the glass.

Route 66 – Sequoyah, Oklahoma
photographed 10.12.2021

couch

There’s an old couch underneath the even-older sign. I guess if you timed it right, you might be able to sit there during the few minutes each day when the couch is in the sign’s shadow. And who knows? You might even enjoy sharing the furniture with the resident vermin.

Route 66 – Sun Valley, Arizona
photographed 5.31.2023