Ralph and Claire travels #3 Route 66 California

in #travel7 years ago (edited)

Hi! Today I want to share to you our trip to Los Angeles part of route 66.

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Route 66 was one of the highways within the US and also one of the famous ones. Its from different states-from Chicago, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and ending in Santa Monica in CA. The highway was also featured in the Disney’s Movie Cars, the first movie.

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Our first stop for the day is the Teepee hut of Wigwam Hotel in San Bernardino CA. It is a southwestern style Teepee hut 4 hotel that was built back in 1950. It has other branches too- Kentucky, Alabama, Florida, Arizona, Louisiana. The teepee huts are one of the famous landmark that you can find in route 66.

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The movie cars created a parodied version of it, a neon colored one where the characters used to stay.

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Next is the famous Emma Jean’s in Victorville. The diner was featured in many articles, movies and has became one of the landmarks in route 66. It was also considered one of the oldest standing cafe in Victorville.

The diner has many good reviews and was also featured in many shows in Tlc and foodnetwork. Too bad the diner was closed that day, Ralph was so disappointed. I can still remember his face because he was so excited to try their specialties.

The next place we visited lifted Ralph’s spirit-the Elmer’s bottle tree ranch in Oro Grande. We were in awe upon seeing the place. It is a compound where recycled items were brought back to life by Mr. Elmer Long. It took him years with this creation.

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As we enter his place, we were puzzled by his creation-a forest of bottles! Such a master piece! Theres so much going on, so many details with this bottle ranch creation. Just imagine what we can do if we will just take time to recycle! There is no admission fee but you can give donations for more wonderful creation!

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After our adventure in the forest of bottles, we went to a pizza place in the area. The restaurant was so cool, perfect for hanging out before going back to the city. We ordered a large pizza with many jalapenos. So yummy!

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Hopefully you can visit the landmarks that we visited. Tell us what you guys think about it.

All the love, Ralph and Claire

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This looks like a great trip! I've never seen some of those places. Thanks so much for sharing the pics. I now see where Cars got some of their Route 66 parts. Really cute! :) Looks like you guys ate (or tried to eat) at some tasty places. :)

Wauw cool trip and I love the pictures!

Someday I would like to make the trip from start to finish on RT66, I have been on sections of it but I think it would be a real adventure to do the whole RT. Thanks for giving me an idea of what is in store in SoCal.

I love the things you found to photograph along the way, especially the bottle tree ranch!

One of the most amazing places weve ever seen!

A house not too far from ours has a bottle tree in the front yard.

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Wow, so that's what's on route 66. Never knew that, it has always been on my bucket list to travel there and thanks for bringing the world to me..Great pictures by the way!

A beautiful and interesting place that I felt like to visit one day. I've loved the photos, especially the bottle tree ranch.