Another Blue Highway - US-93

Another Blue Highway - US-93

The route begins (or ends, depending on which way you’re heading) in Wickenburg, Arizona. The road between Wickenburg and Kingman, Arizona is all desert-scape. Joshua trees and saguaro cacti are the major characters of note along the way. In fact, a section of the highway here is called the Joshua Forest Parkway.

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Pie Town and the Slow Road to Albuquerque

Pie Town and the Slow Road to Albuquerque

We crossed the state line into New Mexico and I remembered reading somewhere about Pie Town. Named for a 1920’s bakery that specialized in dried-apple pies, this tiny town of 186 lies on the Continental Divide and evidently pie shops were a notable reason for visiting. Today, the Pie-O-Neer offers the only pie in Pie Town. We were all geared up for a sweet treat of pie a la mode so, of course, we stopped.

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