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Go ahead - stay home. Sit on your couch and watch the drivel on your television. Limp along in the slow lane of your life. Or grab your photo gear and your sense of adventure, bring along a road map, and travel to a remote stretch of deserted highway. Prepare to lose yourself in a land of weathered cultural icons left behind by those who, once upon a time, carried on a love affair with desert.


These photographs are from one of my Route 66 photography workshops. Contact me if you would like to join me on my next photo expedition along the old road.

Sun Pillar at Sunset, Barstow

Sun Pillars are rare optical phenomena. Click here - http://www.pbase.com/image/7939154 - to view another one, at dawn, over Mono Lake. This one is over the BNSF rail yard, in Barstow, California, in the Mojave desert.
Capture Date: Feb 8, 2003 10:22 AMViews: 557

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Sunset over Old Barstow

Capture Date: Feb 8, 2003 10:15 AMViews: 546

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Late Light Above Roys

Capture Date: Feb 9, 2003 10:11 AMViews: 543

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Broken Glass

Litter takes on a look of stained glass in the Mojave desert, along Route 66.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2003 09:47 AMViews: 544

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You Too Can Grow Iron Mushrooms!

This is a portion of a giant rolling pin, once used by the National Chloride Company, to tamp down the salt flats in the Mojave desert near Amboy, California.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2003 03:11 AMViews: 544

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Bring Your Juke Box Money!

The B-52s would love this juke box, on display in the Route 66 Museum, in Barstow, California.
Capture Date: Feb 8, 2003 09:31 AMViews: 542

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Detail on the BNSF

Close-up look at the underside of an engine of the Burlington Norhtern - Santa Fe railroad company. This engine was on a siding in the Mojave desert.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2003 10:07 AMViews: 544

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Tracks in the Salt

The image is somewhat abstract - vehicle tracks in the salt at the National Chloride Company, Amboy, California
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2003 08:50 AMViews: 543

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Hood Ornament

This ornament is on the hood of an old Cadillac on display in the parking lot of the Route 66 Motel, in Barstow, California
Capture Date: Feb 8, 2003 11:59 PMViews: 543

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Love Birds II

These two are on permanant display at the Route 66 Motel, in Barstow, California.
Capture Date: Feb 9, 2003 12:25 AMViews: 542

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Love Birds

Don and Janet Riddle - They are the retired school bus drivers for the Amboy school, which closed in 1997. When I made this picture, in early February, 2003, Don and Janet had been ordered out of their home behind the school, where they had lived for many years, by the county school board. They managed a sunny attitude.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2003 05:10 AMViews: 543

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Stars of the Bagdad Cafe

The diners at the Bagdad Cafe, in Newberry Springs, were both in the film of the same name - a cult film worth seeing - and were enjoying lunch the day our photography workshop group dropped in for a meal. Lyn and Pat Wright were two of the many authentic "characters" in the film, made on location in the Mojave desert. Pat has worked single handly to bring fame to the little cafe and the film, both of which effortly serve up dishes of myth and reality.

Look closely and you'll see at least one important prop from the film in the background of this picture.

http://www.bagdadcafeusa.com
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2003 06:48 AMViews: 543

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Triple Reflection - Roys Motel and Cafe

Light reflected off my subject - the man wth his sunglasses - and into my camera, while we stood in front of Roy's Cafe and Motel, in Amboy, in the Mojave desert. The sunglasses reflected Roy's Cafe and Motel sign. And the sign is reflected again, dimly, in the pupil of the eye.
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2003 01:47 AMViews: 543

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The Cook on Break

The cook at the famous Bagdad Cafe takes a break - Newberry Springs, Mojave desert, California, USA
Capture Date: Feb 10, 2003 07:28 AMViews: 543

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Ive Been Workin on the Railroad

This Burlington Northern/Sante Fe (BNSF) employee graciously posed for me in front of the historic Harvey House train depot, Barstow, California, in the Mojave desert.
Capture Date: Feb 8, 2003 09:47 AMViews: 543

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