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Michael Schaffer
"Where is the
Boardwalk Hotel?"

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From: Boston, MA
Registered: Apr 2002

posted 09-09-2005 05:29 AM

I fear my mother wouldn't be too excited about the classic car show and cruising festival. But thanks for the tip!

White Sands looks very interesting too. At this stage in the planning, I am leaning more towards concentrating the trip around the AZ/UT border region, plus a little of North West NM, and maybe a little of South West CO. Looks like there is so much to see there, it will be really hard to chose what to do in the time we have.

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Bobby Henderson
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From: Lawton, OK, USA
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posted 09-09-2005 08:18 AM

If you're going to do any touring of the historic US-66 route, you'll need to stop in Elk City, OK to visit the Route 66 Museum. It has lots of nostalgic stuff. Much of the original route 66 highway is still intact within Oklahoma and marked with "Historic US-66 Route" signs.

FYI, Micheal, since you live in the San Diego area it wouldn't be a far drive along Interstate 8 to visit the sand dunes between El Centro and Yuma, AZ. You can do some hellacious dune buggy stuff out there. A lot of movies have been filmed in those dunes, including parts of the "Star Wars" saga.

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Paul Mayer
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From: Albuquerque, NM
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posted 09-09-2005 11:57 AM

Since it looks like you'll be in the Four Corners area, might as well help the local Native American tribes and stop at the tourist trap they run there. Buy a T-shirt. Take a picture of yourselves at the marker for the corner of AZ, CO, NM, and UT for the ultimate tourist moment. It's just off of Route 666. [Smile]

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/01092005/travel/58228.htm

You can also see Shiprock from there, looking towards Farmington, NM. If you want to venture a little further into NM, take Highway 64 through Farmington into the mountains up to Chama, home of the longest narrow-gauge rail line in the US, the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. Very scenic 60 mile or so excursion into CO and back.

http://www.narrowgauge.org/ncmap/excur5.html

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Michael Schaffer
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posted 09-09-2005 07:52 PM

I have been to the Imperial Dunes West of Yuma. We built a theater in El Centro (opening was in April this year), so I spent a lot of time in the area. There is another place where you can rent dune buggies West of El Centro. I wanted to try one of them and whizzzz through the dunes, but the construction ran into some problems, so I turned out to be on site almost all the time...
I go there regularly to check on the theater, but I will wait until it gets a little colder again to try the dune buggy thing.

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