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From Clark Gable to Jim Morrison, Route 66’s Barney’s Beanery Has Seen it All
Hollywood has seen a great deal of changes over its lifetime, and one place that has witnessed it all is Barney’s Beanery. Once a humble California Craftsman home surrounded by poinsettia fields it has...
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The Star-Studded El Trovatore Motel
Patrick and I just returned from a mini road trip to Arizona, and boy are y’all in for a slew of posts! But let’s start off with the first place we stopped for the night, the El Trovatore. El Trovatore...
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A Night at Holbrook’s Kitschy Wigwam Village
Most of our journey to Arizona took us through the northern part of the state, which is the area that Route 66 cuts through, and no trip to Arizona along Route 66 would be complete without staying at...
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Fading Icons of Arizona’s Route 66
As mentioned in earlier Arizona posts, most of our journey took us along the Mother Road, Route 66. The legendary stretch of blacktop is dotted with a combination of still functioning tourist...
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A Look Inside the Strange and Haunted Aztec Hotel of Route 66
Sitting along Foothill Boulevard in Monrovia is what a first glance appears to be some sort of ancient temple, but upon further inspection, it’s actually a hotel, the Aztec Hotel. Last week Patrick and...
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A Hike into an Ancient Volcano along Route 66
The legendary Route 66 often conjures imagery of neon signs for diners, a plethora of tourist traps, and gas stations. Something that perhaps doesn’t spring to mind is a volcano. But in fact there is a...
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The Weird and Wonderful Glass Forest of Bottle Tree Ranch
In my Amboy Crater post, I mentioned Patrick and I are intermittently traveling the full stretch (or as much of it that is accessible) of Route 66 through California, with the eventual plan to do a...
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A Visit to Needles, Home to Spike and the Remains of a Grand Train Depot
Before Interstate 40 arrived through the southwest, there was Route 66, and before that the railroad. And if you traveled any of them to California, Needles was that first city to welcome you to the...
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Remnants of the Mojave Desert at Route 66’s Goffs Schoolhouse Museum
As mentioned in my Needles post, we were lucky enough to make it to another museum along Route 66 before the sun went down, the Goffs Schoolhouse Museum. While the building started out as a...
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Touring the Hauntingly Beautiful Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Hollywood. The home to the stars – both living and dead. While Hollywood and the surrounding areas have multiple cemeteries where Hollywood’s elite have been laid to rest, none is perhaps more notable...
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Eating a Little Hot Dog at a Giant Hot Dog! The Return of Tail o’ the Pup
It has graced book covers, it has been seen featured on the big and small screen, it has been visited by celebrities like Betty White, Sigourney Weaver, and the band Devo, just to name a few. What is...
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The Delightfully Bizarre Unofficial McDonald’s Museum
Before McDonald’s was the global icon it is today, it was a humble barbecue joint in San Bernardino run by two brothers from New Hampshire. While their first location is no longer standing, it lives on...
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