Get Your Kicks

Would you get hip to this kindly tip
And go take that California trip
Get your kicks on Route 66

Well goes from St. Louie down to Missouri
Oklahoma city looks oh so pretty
You'll see Amarillo and Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff, Arizona don't forget Winona
Kingman, Barstow, San Bernadino

--Bobby Troup, "(Get Your Kicks On) Route 66"

Snow outside Barstow, CA

Cafe on Route 66, Winslow, Arizona

Route 66, Winslow, Arizona

Grand Canyon, South Rim

Grand Canyon in Winter

Snowman, Grand Canyon

Twin Arrows, Arizona

Petrified Forest, Arizona

I Left My Heart...

"It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness of the late afternoon of time."
-- Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part 2, Ch. 9

Lombard Street, San Francisco

San Francisco treat

Alcatraz and beyond

Swimming at Cal

Crossing the Bay Bridge

Trying to get the last drop

Hustled at Blooms Saloon

#2 (Double double, fries and a coke)

Arizona and California

Hair blowing in the hot wind,
Time hanging from a clothespin
There's no sorrow that the sun's not gonna heal
I smell the leather of your new car
Drive through the desert after nightfall
Sleep on the shoulder, keep the stars all to ourselves
--Conor Oberst, "Sausalito"

T For Texas

You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
--Davey Crocket

Congress Street bridge, Austin, Texas

Texas State Capital

Remember the Alamo

Riverwalk, San Antonio

New friend

US-10, West Texas

West Texas

Riding the Stagecoach

Walking the Line

Horsing around

Near Marfa Texas

Carlsbad Caverns, NM

Artesia, NM

That's Right (You're Not From Texas)

You say you're not from Texas
Man as if I couldn't tell
You think you pull your boots on right
And wear your hat so well
--Lyle Lovett

When I crossed the state line into Texas, the sign read: "El Paso 857 miles." I stopped to visit running friends in Houston and Austin. Next stop, the Alamo.

Historic Bastrop, TX

Burrito 1, Monkey 0

Stevie Ray Vaughn, Austin, TX

Before...

After

Live music at the Saxon Pub, Austin