Route 66 Road Trip Stops in Oklahoma

Just a reminder that on my other blog, there are several "Through My Lens" YouTube videos on the historic U.S. Hwy 66.  (I will list them later.)

This particular one is close to my heart as my first wife, Marla, was from NW Oklahoma and over the years, we made several trips to and through the state, as well as other trips along I-40 between Georgia and Arizona (as it is usually cooler in the summer than I-10).  On my first 2015 Arizona trip, I left some of her ashes at the edge of an old family farm in Ellis County.

The Most Dangerous Road in the United States - U.S. Hwy 550

U.S. Hwy 550, between Durango and Ouray, Colorado is the subject of numerous recent posts on my companion blog, Itinerant Geologist.  Largely as a way of reminiscing travels from 1973, 1977, and 1979.  (The series also includes photos of Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, just east of Montrose, Colorado on U.S. Hwy 50.)

1973 was the time of my family's last "family vacation", as in 1974 I went west with my college roommate and my sister was getting ready to go off to college, herself (the family "diaspora").  Our 1973 vacation took us from Durango to Grand Junction and then west into Utah.

1977 was the time of a 10-day field trip after my UTEP Geology Field Camp, where we made a brief visit to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, but we didn't visit the San Juan Volcanic Field (aka San Juan Mts.). 

1979 was the time of my Summer Job in a Fossil Recovery Project in the Bisti Badlands, south of Farmington, NM.  On my days off, I often spent time in the Durango and Silverton area and went back once to the Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park.