Palm Springs Kilted Weekend April 3-4-5

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The cantankerous way2fractious, the incomparable Flame-Haired Celtic Amazon Goddess, and yours truly left San Jose early Friday morning to start our close to 500 mile journey southward.

Here are some photos from our trip (Sydney has already posted a couple of them)

I have never been to the desert before and was delighted when I spotted Joshua trees. I pulled over as soon as we could so we could get get a few pictures. Now taking those photos proved to be challenging as a great wind storm was in progress. Needless to say that some of our attempts would not be appropriate for a family friendly forum!

w2f and I in camo kilts



The lovely F-H.C.A.G. and her windblown husband



Our view




Getting back into our car we continued along the road. The F-H.C.A.G. had planned our trip so that we might have a chance to travel a small portion (about 2 and half miles) of what was the famous Route 66. We had hoped to find a place to stop for a picture with one of the highway signs, we found...










The California Route 66 Museum!


http://califrt66museum.org/

For our X Markers outside the USA you can find out a little about Route 66 here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_66

There is even a wonderful song about that goes...


Well if you ever plan to motor west
Just take my way that the highway that the best
Get your kicks on Route 66
Well it winds from Chicago to L.A.
More than 2000 miles all the way
Get your kicks on Route 66
Well it goes from St Louis, down to Missouri
Oklahoma city looks oh so pretty
You'll see Amarillo and Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona don't forget Winona
Kingsman, Barstow, San Bernadino

Would you get hip to this kindly tip
And go take that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66
Well it goes from St. Louis, down to Missouri
Oklahoma city looks oh so pretty
You'll see Amarillo and Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona don't forget Winona
Kingsman, Barstow, San Bernadino

Would you get hip to this kindly tip
And go take that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66
Get your kicks on Route 66


The gents running the place were quite friendly and we enjoyed a break from our drive to explore the memorablia of the years when Route 66 was "The Mother Road"

Richard and I sitting at a tribute to the many diners that were found along the great highway



My lovely wife and I standing next to this charmingly compact "honeymoon" camping trailer



I bought an inexpensive little charm that looked like a "Route 66" highway sign to wear as a watch fob and remind me of this wonderful weekend.

However, we couldn't linger too long as we had to get to Palm Springs and pick up a certain curmudgeon at the airport...

More to come!