JAck,
thanks for posting more about this.
When I went on the 2001 2-month trip I made travel notes on cassette
tapes much later I was transcribing them - partly with the help of some
gals who could actually type properly listening to a dictaphone..
I was using google maps on line a bit. I wanted to see where a
particular place was on a map and my quest was foiled until discovered
that numbering change...
ann
On 12/18/2014 11:27, John wrote:
US Hwy 64 ends a few miles west of there at Teec Nos Pos, AZ, where you
turn to go up to the 4 corners.
I've always been fascinated with Hwy 64 because it runs past just a few
miles from my house. Before I bought this house, I lived out on 64 in
Knightdale, NC.
It's North Carolina's "mountains to the sea" highway; the road that
defines "from Murphy to Manteo".
When I went out to Arizona to visit friends & see the Grand Canyon I
ended up detouring via US 160 to go up to the four corners. I spotted
the end of US 64 quite by accident when I came to Teec Nos Pos where US
160 turns towards the four corners.
By the time I got to where I could see Ship Rock it was quite dark & the
*ist-D doesn't have that good high ISO performance.
They changed the number of US 666 north of I-40 to US 491 in 2003. By
then most of the US 666 signs had been stolen anyway. It still shows as
US 666 on the Colorado state highway maps I got when I was at Ft. Carson
in 1999.
I think the southern part of 666 was renumbered when Route 66 was
officially abolished back in the 80s. The Arizona portion of 666 became
US 191.
On 12/18/2014 12:34 AM, Ann Sanfedele wrote:
More on location - it is quite close to Four Corners, that place where
you could be in 4 states at once if you so desired Colorado, New
MExico, Arizona, Utah. scenicly, four corners is a bust, btw. Just
one of those places you want to experience anyway...
You can see Shiprock in the distance from Farview lodge at Mesa Verde
but at quite a distance. And Shiprock the town is right on what used to
be numbered "666" and called the devil's highway. Before you visited
there, Brian, they changed the number due to it's reputation for
the number of fatal crashes along it. I'm not sure when they did that,
but when I drove through the area in 2001 the number changed really
messed me up because I was quite familiar with it as 666.
Never got a decent shot of Shiprock, myself... but I knew it from old
HOllywood movies and had longed to see it.
ann
On 12/17/2014 03:13, Brian Walters wrote:
Thanks Bruce, Jack, Alan, Ann, Dan & Bob. Comments much appreciated.
Bob - Shiprock (the rock) is near Shiprock (the town) in north-west New
Mexico, about 50 km from Farmington. It has of great religious
significance to the Navajo people.
Cheers
Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
Quoting Bob Sullivan <[email protected]>:
Very nice Brian. Where in New Mexico?
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:15 PM, Brian Walters
<[email protected]> wrote:
'morning all,
Being fans of Tony Hillerman's novels, my wife and I had Shiprock on
our
'must visit' list during our USA trip.
We, together with our two sons, had planned to arrive in the late
afternoon,
scout around for a good photographic location and then sit back with
a glass
of New Mexico red and wait for the sunset. As it happened, getting
out of
Farmington (where we were staying) took an eternity so we arrived
much later
than we had hoped. Beggars couldn't be choosers, so this was the
best we
could do.
Disclosure: I got rid of some wires crossing in front of the rock, my
justification being that had I climbed a fence and moved a bit
closer, the
wires wouldn't have been visible anyway...
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1370864/PESO/slides/_IGP2060-K5-1peso_HDR.html
http://tinyurl.com/kwpn7n4
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