The Asses of Oatman, Arizona
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We’d heard of Oatman, Arizona, but never had the opportunity to visit. The town is particularly noted for having more asses than people.
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Blue Highways - US Highway 70
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When William Least Heat-Moon Heat wrote ‘Blue Highways: A Journey into America’ in 1979, he coined the term ‘blue highways’ because secondary highways on the old paper road maps were always printed in the blue. On the return from our holiday East Coast trip, Brennan suggested driving a ‘blue highway’ and since we relish road trips. but definitely dislike traveling on major interstates unless necessary, we opted to take his suggestion.
Read MoreVisiting the Birthplace of Kermit the Frog
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We prefer backroads to interstates, small towns to cities, and quirky museums and roadside oddities. That’s how we found ourselves in Leland, Mississippi, ‘birthplace of the frog’, only a couple of hundred miles out of our way.
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