Running Down The Mother Road

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of The Eagles hit song playing on a CD in my car, I headed out on a road trip to stand on the corner in Winslow, Arizona. I’ve even got the t-shirt. Whether Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey, who wrote ‘Take It Easy’, ever stood on the corner I don’t know.</p><p id="e5eb">Taking it easy, I stayed two nights at Winslow’s La Posada Hotel, built in the style of a Mexican hacienda. Over the years this hotel was used by Hollywood’s finest — film stars, movie directors, and their crews when shooting iconic Western’s — like ‘The Searchers’, starring John Wayne and directed by John Ford in 1956.</p><p id="1170">As I was on my way to Monument Valley, it seemed fitting that I stayed in the John Wayne suite.</p><p id="890a">Entrepreneur Fred Harvey opened a series of eating houses along the Santa Fe Railway that evolved into America’s first restaurant chain, the Harvey Houses. Operating from 1876 through the 1960s, the company introduced refined dining in the W

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est with widespread employment of women known as ‘Harvey Girls.’</p><p id="9401">Here’s hoping it won’t be too long before we can all travel freely and enjoy road trips without the need for a mask, or the fear of infection.</p><p id="9a75">With thanks to <a href="undefined">Mary Chang Story Writer</a> for the Six Word Photo Story January Prompt: “Self”</p><div id="3079" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/show-yourself-january-prompt-31d4f26e00b"> <div> <div> <h2>Show Yourself: January Prompt</h2> <div><h3>January Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Self”</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*et7KRT2gnbgfQ7HnDd9U6g.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

On The Corner In Winslow, Arizona.

It’s such a good place to be, and yes I even saw a flatbed Ford, driven by a young Navajo man.

Not too long ago I was driving down the road, but not just any road, the ‘Mother Road’ — Route 66, in Winslow, Arizona. I got a lot of kicks out of traveling along America’s most iconic blacktop.

Mary Chang asked the question: What makes you shine, laugh, play, create etc.? Well for me it is music and travel.

With Jackson Browne’s version of The Eagles hit song playing on a CD in my car, I headed out on a road trip to stand on the corner in Winslow, Arizona. I’ve even got the t-shirt. Whether Jackson Browne and Glenn Frey, who wrote ‘Take It Easy’, ever stood on the corner I don’t know.

Taking it easy, I stayed two nights at Winslow’s La Posada Hotel, built in the style of a Mexican hacienda. Over the years this hotel was used by Hollywood’s finest — film stars, movie directors, and their crews when shooting iconic Western’s — like ‘The Searchers’, starring John Wayne and directed by John Ford in 1956.

As I was on my way to Monument Valley, it seemed fitting that I stayed in the John Wayne suite.

Entrepreneur Fred Harvey opened a series of eating houses along the Santa Fe Railway that evolved into America’s first restaurant chain, the Harvey Houses. Operating from 1876 through the 1960s, the company introduced refined dining in the West with widespread employment of women known as ‘Harvey Girls.’

Here’s hoping it won’t be too long before we can all travel freely and enjoy road trips without the need for a mask, or the fear of infection.

With thanks to Mary Chang Story Writer for the Six Word Photo Story January Prompt: “Self”