Cultural Mirages: Route 66 and the
Mojave Desert 2007
Day 2: Saturday and the Journey
to Amboy
Saturday morning in Newberry Springs, breakfast
at the Bagdad Cafe, of cult movie fame.
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Memorabilia at the Bagdad Cafe...
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Old piano at the Bagdad
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Near the Bagdad, Mary keeps
memorabilia from her Danny, close friend from bygone days |
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Evocative peeling paint on the old Whiting
Gas Station at Mary's
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Danny's ancient piano
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Canned peaches... past their prime
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Next stop, Pisgah
Crater - a volcano southeast of Ludlow which last erupted only
about 20,000 years ago
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Pisgah Crater is laced with underground
lava tubes, which has attracted a group of young cavers. They were kind
enough to invite us to their favorite cave and light our way
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A serious underground adventure requires
proper hydration
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Down the hole
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Tom Sawyer and Injun Joe, anyone?
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The Ghost of Pisgah
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The climb back to the light
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Next stop - a special treat as we were allowed
by the caretaker to set up our lunch spread inside the old Roy's Cafe
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At the National Chloride boneyards
on Searle Dry Lake...
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Dave Wyman ponders reflections
in a psychotic-ly rendered salt pool |
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Broken glass shards re-image the setting
sun
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Amboy Volcanic Crater and sunset |
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The main rail line through Amboy
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Day 3: Dead trucks and dark
storms.
Day 1: Tom's Welding and Sunset.