{"id":9217,"date":"2021-08-12T17:42:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T00:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/?p=9217"},"modified":"2021-08-12T17:48:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T00:48:36","slug":"day-4-nv-to-az","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/2021\/08\/12\/day-4-nv-to-az\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 4: NV to AZ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Take &#8216;er away, Henry:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We left Las Vegas and headed through the Mojave to Kingman, and along the way we kept seeing billboards for &#8220;Gus&#8217;s Beef Jerky&#8221; and various junkyards. When we actually got to Gus&#8217;s the sign looked like this:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/DQxNPWBGgkfHvGtp6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"548\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Gus-1024x548.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9220\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Gus-1024x548.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Gus-300x161.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Gus-768x411.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Gus.jpg 1180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We also saw an old bombed-out pizzeria, where it looked like the &#8220;ia&#8221; fell\/melted off, so it just said &#8220;Pizzer!&#8221;<\/p><p>When we arrived in Kingman we looked at the steamie in the park, and then we crossed the street and went to the visitors&#8217; center\/Route 66 museum. In the museum they had lots of cool stuff, like a neon Mobil pegasus where the wings moved. On the ground floor they had a really interesting documentary all about all of Arizona&#8217;s 66 towns. They also had an electric car museum from which I saw two BNSF trains go by each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/DQxNPWBGgkfHvGtp6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Kingman-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9221\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Kingman-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Kingman-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Kingman-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Kingman.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When Dad &amp; I left, Finn came running out with Seamy, because we didn&#8217;t know they were inside. He told us how he was in the gift shop for 45 minutes, watching the same video about &#8220;The Route 66 Kid&#8221; over and over again!<\/p><p>We then crossed the street and ate at Mr. D&#8217;z 50&#8217;s diner. When we got back to the van, I nearly died from choking on a mint, and Dad forgot to pay, so he had to run back. Soon after we drove down Kingman&#8217;s bit of 66 and saw their train station.<\/p><p>Next, we started on our drive to Flagstaff. We drove through the historic towns of Seligman &amp; Williams. On the way through Williams we saw several old Santa Fe cabeese.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/DQxNPWBGgkfHvGtp6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SF-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9222\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SF-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SF-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SF-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SF.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Soon we arrived at Flagstaff, and Dad, Mom, and I went to the pioneer museum and saw their steam locomotive and caboose #999455. Next, we drove downtown and visited the sticker shop. We went back to the room and ate Little Caesar&#8217;s pizza.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/photos.app.goo.gl\/DQxNPWBGgkfHvGtp6\">Here&#8217;s a gallery from the day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take &#8216;er away, Henry: We left Las Vegas and headed through the Mojave to Kingman, and along the way we kept seeing billboards for &#8220;Gus&#8217;s Beef Jerky&#8221; and various junkyards. When we actually got to Gus&#8217;s the sign looked like this: We also saw an old bombed-out pizzeria, where it looked like the &#8220;ia&#8221; fell\/melted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[38,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colorado-2021","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9217"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9226,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9217\/revisions\/9226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/micronaxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}