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Rambling, Malarky, Rants, Etc. => Rambling, Malarky, Rants, Etc... => Topic started by: calvinhunt on March 19, 2013, 11:02:09 PM

Title: Along the Northern Arizona Hwy
Post by: calvinhunt on March 19, 2013, 11:02:09 PM: Last week my wife and I took a trip into Central Arizona. ï¿½Here are a few pics of a few items I found interesting along the way. ï¿½

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It seems to me that the times a highway would need plowing and patrolling the most would be nights, weekends, and during storms. ï¿½I guess you can go as fast as you'd like during those times. ï¿½That would be kind of like posting a sign for muggers and robbers: I am unarmed. ï¿½There are no guns in my house.

The Northern Arizona desert is formed heavily of sandstone formations and by prehistoric volcanic activity:

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Here is a unique sandstone formation jutting up out of the desert floor.

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Here is another sandstone formation capped with a craggy black lava flow. ï¿½
Title: Re: Along the Northern Arizona Hwy
Post by: F Bill on March 20, 2013, 09:00:14 AM: That scenery looks very familiar......Is that highway 89 ? (I used to live in Page back in 94-7 and worked for a wrecker company in town.)
Title: Re: Along the Northern Arizona Hwy
Post by: Macgraham on March 20, 2013, 09:10:55 AM: Calvin, do you know if Hw. 89 to Page is open since the slide? It was closed the last I heard.
Title: Re: Along the Northern Arizona Hwy
Post by: garage gnome on March 20, 2013, 07:10:18 PM: Very cool Calvin! I can't wait to start cruising in mine. Hopefully we are DONE with snow!
Title: Re: Along the Northern Arizona Hwy
Post by: calvinhunt on March 21, 2013, 02:34:46 AM: No, it's not highway 89 in the Page area, but so much of that part of the state looks the same, and I like it all. And I don't know if the slide on 89 has been cleared yet. This is farther east on highway 191 about 50 miles north of Holbrook.
Title: Re: Along the Northern Arizona Hwy
Post by: F Bill on March 21, 2013, 08:55:13 AM: 191 would have been my next guess... Where was the slide? I will be in SLC in a few days, Might try and drive thru the old haunts on the way back to TX...
Title: Re: Along the Northern Arizona Hwy
Post by: Gunslinger on March 25, 2013, 10:40:19 PM: (http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/calvinhunt/For%20CJ-3A%20Page/IMG_1172.jpg)

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Kind of reminds me of a sign I saw on Hwy59 about half way between Douglas and Gillette Wyoming, it said " Emergency stopping only". I still can't figure out why else you'd stop.
Title: Re: Along the Northern Arizona Hwy
Post by: Carls_jeep on March 26, 2013, 12:13:17 AM: Perhaps they don't want anyone to stop and pee. :o ;D
Title: Re: Along the Northern Arizona Hwy
Post by: calvinhunt on March 26, 2013, 02:36:07 AM: If I have to stop and pee along the highway, it is an EMERGENCY!
Title: Re: Along the Northern Arizona Hwy
Post by: Gunslinger on March 26, 2013, 08:15:09 PM: Quote
If I have to stop and pee along the highway, it is an EMERGENCY!

That's what Im talkin about!!! ;D ;D