Nice day for a Drive

I love going for rides - it's so soothing.  Today Hubby and I dove to Kingman, AZ it's about 45 mins  to an hour from us.  I needed to take my machine into get it checked out.  It had some issues.  At first she thought it just needed to have the timing checked out since my bobbin case was popping out and the needle actually punctured the case about 3 times.  See the two holes here and then the big scratch on the bottom part? 

 You can see more of the damage from the bottom side too. 

But after we got it in there it ended up having a broken feed dog and a spring came off.  (The stinking spring that is so hard for her to put on)   We dropped it off - went to lunch - came back and walked around shop for awhile - then decided to just come back and pick it up on Thursday.   It was a beautiful day for a ride and a lot of the desert cactus and wildflowers were in bloom. I took several pictures from the moving vehicle to get pictures of them - this is the best I came up with.   

Once we got back into town, we stopped at the park to see if they stocked the river again.  I think they did.  I see fishing in my honey's future.  :)  

Someone was having fun with a Ski-Doo on the river.

I'm not good at selfies but gave it a try.

Here's my honey visiting a lady that was fishing - and my shadow self.

Looking back that's where we were standing. 

It was a beautiful day out.  Hope you had a great day too. 

Blessings,  Lynn 

Route 66 History

Since retiring - Hubby and I have  settled quite nicely into our routines.  He golfs and I sew. Then usually a day or two in the week we go sight seeing or do something other than the daily routine.  So last Tuesday the 18th, we headed to Kingman, AZ and went to a couple of Museum.  It is not huge, however since  the town was built around the infamose Route 66, there is a plethora of history about it.  We went to the "Route 66 / Power House" visitor center museum and the "Bonelli House".    For more info you can click the links to each.  I found more info and will be reading more about them too.  I took way too many pictures so I'll just try to pick a few.  There was a big display about people moving west on Route 66 and 3 huge pages from "The Grapes of Wrath"

This was in the first room 

And as a previous collector of Coca Cola memorabilia this Circa 1895 bottle caught my eye. Also this famous photographer Carlos Elmer whom got an award from Kodak - had this little picture journal. I made a little funny saying it could be the earliest record of scrap booking.  

And for your Trivia lesson for the day -  We were reading about these tours and I noticed the "Swastika" on the car and was amazed.  Then I noticed (duh) the sign under the picture.  Zoom in on the picture and read about it.  It was originally meant for good.  Hmmm 

If you can't read the sign Here you go.  

Next stop was the Bonelli house - 

Then on the way home we took Route 66 from Kingman to Oatman which is now a tourist attraction, with wild burro's roaming the streets, but was once a booming gold town after a $10 million gold find in 1915. It is also famous for being the honeymoon stop for Clark Gable and Carole Lombard after being married in Kingman in 1939.  The road is very narrow and with lots of curves (hubby not real fond of it) but the scenery is beautiful.  

If you zoom in you'll see an active mine.

Some wild Burro's

Just a pretty shot of the mountain and clouds. 

Didn't stop - not sure if it really is one. 

Entering Oatman. 

All in all a beautiful day and a little more info learned about history and the area around us. 

Have a Blessed day. 

Lynn