Great American Road Trip-Day 6 (and final) Review


Yesterday was the last day of our road trip--today we arrived home and boy is it nice to see my house again! In total, we traveled right about 3000 miles--even more than I drove when I moved out from North Carolina to California. It was such an amazing trip--I've never done anything like this and would do it again in a second (after I've had some time to recover!).

We started off the day where we spent the night, in Flagstaff Arizona. We did drive around Flagstaff and thought it was a super cute town but a bit too commercial and new for what we wanted to shoot, so we started to make our way west. Since there's really nothing off I-40, we took Historic Route 66 most of the way, stopping in all the little towns. The first stop was Williams, Arizona. It looks like it was once a real hotspot among travelers. There's tons of old hotel signs and cool stuff there, here's a few:









Since this trip was all about American kitch and quirky things to do, I made the executive decision (against Becker's much better judgement) that we should stop at the "Flintstones Village". It was, well, special. A couple of pics:







Here we are in Barney's house:



Our next stop was unexpected--Hackberry is barely even on the map, but it does have this fantastic roadside stop where we made a U-turn in the middle of the road to go back and shoot it. Here's a history of Hackberry, if you're interested:



You can see a shot of the whole station on BECKER'S BLOG , it is amazing! It's owned by a very nice guy, John, who has been collecting Route 66 memorabilia for about 40 years, he said. He was such a nice guy, and even let me shoot some portraits:



Here are some shots from around his property:

















By the time we got to Hackberry, all the snow and icy roads were just a distant memory, but the road we took to get to our next and last stop, Oatman, was really something! There is about a 9 mile stretch of road that winds all the way up and down the mountain with no guard rails to stop you from falling right off the cliff! It's a good thing Becker was driving, I probably wouldn't have made it. It was well worth the trip though.

Oatman's "claim to fame" is that they have Burros wandering randomly through the streets of town. Yup, they just hang out wherever they please. I really wanted to see the Burros, so we walked around until we found a group of them just on the outskirt of town. I said hello and walked away, but the whole herd followed me! I guess walking with the Burros is second best to running with the bulls. Shots of us leading the pack:





The burros alone:



They really do hang out wherever they want:



A couple more from Oatman:











Right outside Oatman:





We had a few minutes of light left, so we took a couple portraits. Isn't this a HOT photo of [ b ]?



And that concludes our trip! Also (and I'm reposting this from yesterday as I will for the next few days), I will definitely be selling prints from this trip soon. If you're interested in being notified about my fine art prints when they go on sale, as well as some upcoming seminars, items for sale, and a new line of products just for girls, just shoot me a quick email to info@jcsphoto.com! You don't even need to write me a note if you don't want, it's just to give me your email address so I know you're interested. I promise I won't spam you too much :). Boys can sign up too! If you sign up you'll find out about stuff I'm not going to post here, as well as get discounts. Plus,I will just like you better. :)

Feel free to leave a comment to let me know which prints you'd like to see for sale!

Thank you so much for following along with our trip. It's been really fun to post our shots every day, plus it's been motivating me to blog every day. I'm going to try to keep it up!

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Posted: Wed - January 24, 2007 at 05:24 PM          

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