Abandoned Places – Route 66 (Helendale, Barstow and beyond)

Sorry about the delay in posting these, but the last week or so has been something of whirlwind of excitement and activity for me. In fact, its very hard to post photos, when you’re very busily out on the road taking more of them. More on that to follow...

When the road becomes history, where do the vehicles of those past travels vanish to? Nowadays, vehicles go to die in vast impersonal scrap yards where rarely one finds a wreck older than a few years from the current models on the streets. Time moves a little slower on Route 66 and the past refuses to goes gently into that long dark night. With a huge ‘For Sale’ sign in front, found an old graveyard alone and forlorn in the desert. The sign noted 200+ acres of prime land on Historic Route 66 (cars, not included)..



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Abandoned Places - West Valley to Gorman (19 May 07)

Last week, badgerphone, my kids and I embarked on a road-trip adventure into the back country west and north of Lancaster. We stopped at a few old sites and a few new ones. Three sites are covered in this post: The Mott House, The Ranch Ruins and The West Valley Shack

Cruising north out of Palmdale, we spied the Mott house. I call it that, because there was a large volume of bills, letters, correspondence and even 1980’s era slides addressed to “L. Mott” (first name omitted for privacy.



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