Route 66 – Day 8

Day Eight, last big drive day before California. We begin in Gallup, New Mexico and drove straight on to the border. Good-bye New Mexico!

Hello, Arizona! To get through Arizona, we started with this uncertain road.

It was smooth(ish) and sandy, but it was not very modern. We were casting about for landmarks, and/or help, when we saw this

Thank-you, Mr. Jones, for writing a sign and setting it on the corner! I can only imagine the rancher being so tired of Route 66 people asking for directions, he decided to hand-paint a sign to point us on our way

This road took us to the Petrified Forest. We drove through the 28 mile park quickly, but stopped for a one-mile hike at the Blue Mesa. 

We hiked the Blue Mesa trail, which was about a mile hike

It’s difficult to capture the grand scale of the place. It is HUGE open skies, people. Huge!

And then we headed off to more adventure!

Yes. We stood on the corner of Winslow, Arizona and sang the song and took the pictures. If I have a chance to do a recap, I’ll try to add the video of us singing the song. 

We saw some iconic arrows

Eventually, we found these amazing road side signs. Ready?

I hope you can read these Burma-Shave signs, because I love that we found them somewhere outside of Seligman. I remember looking for these signs when I was a little kid, so I delighted in finding them now! What a great way to end the day.