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…
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 pantheon of our wild west history, certain cities come to mind, always. Places where characters lived and died, where important battles were fought, where the roots of those…
Our drinks were ordered and as we perused the menu, E looked analytically around the room, eyeing the staff head to toe, taking in the décor, examining the finer details.…
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…
Annually, the Red Earth Museum in Oklahoma City holds the three day Red Earth Festival to which tribes from all over the region come to display art and compete in…
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…
Have you ever woken up and thought “I’d like to see New Mexico today?” Or Kansas? Or Colorado? Or Texas? Or all four in the same day plus Oklahoma? Are…