My Dad and granddad help build 66 from Clines corners to Gallup. My
granddad had 10 big horse and two Fresno's. They worked a 4 up across to do
that work. I good d-8 can do in 30 min what my dad and granddad did in a
day.
Just a note
Woods
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-----Original Message-----
From: New Mexico Jim <ADvent@thuntek.net>
Cc: oletrucks@autox.team.net <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, July 14, 2000 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [oletrucks] Adventures along the Mother Road
>Nothing like a .270 or a .22-250 or .22 hornet on a prairie dog, either.
They are
>the main spreaders of "the plague". I must be spoiled. I have lived for
years very
>close to hwy. 66. I drive on it all the time. Its just another piece of
blacktop to
>me, but I would like to see the east end of it, though. The farthest east
on 66 I
>have been is about 40 miles east of me. I have seen hail 6 inches deep in
July in
>Flagstaff around Hwy. 66 and only 44º for the high that day and a few
winters well
>over 3 feet on the ground from one storm, plus all the other snow already
on the
>ground! You can drive the stretch that is the hottest summer and coldest in
the
>winter within a few hours out of the entire stretch of hwy. Around Kingman
that can
>get around 120º, but its a dry heat, hehe. And Flagstaff where the coldest
is in
>the -30's. And in July 4th 1986 fireworks where there was snow flurries and
a bad
>accident where my old roommates boss's daughter was badly burned. A few
short miles
>on a dirt road in Flagstaff takes you to 10,000 feet on Mt. Elden and it
snows
>around 30 feet of snow, easy with temps, like Mt. humphrey's (12,633 feet)
at a
>record of -80! Brrrrrr. You can make it to the top about 5 moths out of the
year. I
>guess it is kinda special, ain't it.
>
>"Alan D. Gingles" wrote:
>
>> Wonderful story, John! Thanks for posting it. I can't wait to see your
>> pictures.I love long road trips, and hope to do another one next summer.
As for
>> prairie dogs, they have to be one of the stupidest critters known to man!
At
>> least a dog or cat knows which way to run to avoid being hit! *LOL*
>>
>> --
>> Alan & Karen Gingles
>> Calgary, Alberta
>>
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>>
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>
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