Kingman Az, Route 66 in general

[Swampthing]

Hey,
Anyone been to Kingman AZ?
I stopped in during my cross country Road trip (still on it) with my daughter.
Kingman is a crazy little city basically in the middle of the desert.
parts of the town look stuck in the 50s and some in the 80s.
I was only there for a short time and saw a couple rat rods, some classic cars, some bikes from the 50s, and a pile of Route 66 stuff.
there is also a little brewery there, so please excuse my typing errors.
I stopped at the brewery solely because of a sculpture they had. The Rickety Cricket. I’ll tell him a for free, the beers are good and the artwork on the cans is cool Anyway at the Route 66 museum there, a total tourist trap, but cool anyway, I took a picture of her in the drive through Route 66 thingy.
we did a lot of miles on Route 66, all the way to Santa Monica Pier.
try it sometime. A lot of the small towns still have character and interesting characters.
we were able to avoid all chains except for AW root beer, and Waffle House, from coast to coast.

 

[wheelbender6]

I think you can drive much of historic Route 66 from Williams, all the way to Kingman.
When I lived in the Phoenix area, we passed through Kingman many times on the way to Laughlin, NV. I never mountain biked there.
-I am glad Kingman is prospering. I really miss living in AZ.

 

[Captain Awesome]

This one time when I was in Winslow Arizona, I was just standing on a corner.......

 

[horsefarmer]

This one time when I was in Winslow Arizona, I was just standing on a corner.......

 

[Captain Awesome]

 

[wheelbender6]

I worked at a site in Winslow back in the early 2000s for about a week. I kept looking for that flatbed Ford but never saw it.
-Don't ever try to work in the rain in Winslow. That fine red volcanic soil turns unbelievably slick during storms.
-I did one quick day job in Kingman. Great weather, but the coordinates the client gave me wouldn't work. I figured out that they had turned the drawing 90 degrees in the CAD computer before pulling the coordinates for me. I began to go 90 degrees east of what ever direction the GPS gave me, but used the GPS distances. It worked and I was able to finish the job without staying overnight.

 

[whitecoyote]

Awesome!
Thanks for sharing,

 

[Swampthing]

The rickety cricket riding his rat rod on wedding day.
the other one is anaconda IPA. Tasted better, but the art wasn’t as cool.