On 4/3/2021 03:05:34, Bob Pdml wrote:
On 3 Apr 2021, at 06:50, John <[email protected]> wrote:
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I was lucky my family made a couple of road trips out to California (from
NC) while I was still at home and I got to see Route 66 in 1960 before I-40
replaced most of it.
We went again in 1964 and by then most of the trip was on Interstates. But
they hadn't completely replaced the old highways.
The 1964 trip was when the Ranger at The Petrified Forest directed my dad
to pull off "where they were building the new highway" (I-40) "and we could
pick up all the petrified wood we wanted" because it was outside of the
National Park.
Does that mean you can’t get your sticks on Route 66?
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I guess not. That part of Route 66 through Arizona is long gone.
But I-40 is still there & the park boundaries are clearly marked.
On one of my trips out west since I got home from Iraq, I stopped at the place
where I thought we might have been in 64 to see if I could find any petrified
wood. I'm pretty sure Arizona doesn't have any law against collecting petrified
wood outside of the park boundaries.
In 64 the lanes had recently been graded, but not yet paved, and where the
shoulder of the highway is today there was just a line of freshly plowed dirt in
a linear mound. That's where we found the petrified wood.
Since then the highway has been paved, the shoulder is paved & the right-of-way
on either side has been seeded with grass (or what passes for grass in Arizona)
and when I stopped in 2013 (almost 50 years later) I didn't seen any petrified
wood just lying about on the surface.
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