Twenty five miles from the Blue Whale on Route 66 stands the World’s Largest Concrete Totem Pole, yet another oddity from the bygone era of roadside kitsch, a Route 66 landmark and…
One of the greatest qualities of Route 66 and the bygone kitsch era of Americana are the roadside testaments to individual gumption and creativity. The world’s largest this or that,…
The heat had gotten to us and by the turnoff the sun sweltered and wavered, even dust from the dirt road rose as slowly as possible to meet our sweat and…
In the afternoon haze we left from Sturgis, out and onto 80 MPH interstate, and just that rapidly those stunning South Dakota hills were left behind me. A certain melancholy…
“This must be what heaven looks like.” “This looks like how you would describe heaven.” The land rolled out like an ocean all around and in the center as we…
“Do you want to go to Mt. Rushmore? I want to take a family roadtrip and I want little miss to see Mt. Rushmore.” “No. Mt. Rushmore is a defaced…
Still tackling the project that is cleaning out my external hard drives, I continue to come across a sundry assortment of roadside photos as yet unshared on Dharma Anchor, especially…
I had no idea, sitting outside of a gas station choking down their version of coffee and watching the sky kaleidoscope from nighttime purple into early sunrise hues of dust…
“How the hell do you find this stuff?” “Because it’s here to be found and its history. If more people were looking for it, it wouldn’t go away.” We have…