377 miles or 606 km: is the presence of the route in New Mexico. If the United States covering large areas is by shopping at its southern neighbors and invasions. National heroes, as Henry David Thoreau, earned jail for opposing the U.S. invasion of its southern neighbor, finally gave up more than half of its territory. Thoreau refused to pay taxes to finance the war being waged with Mexico. In Civil Disobedience, Thoreau think about it.
Should pause Santa Fe, the state capital. City, national tourism magnet rich, air oozes colonial Hispanic. The red walls provide for the markets, craft stores or the tribute to the Indians: palpable atmosphere at the museum or the Cathedral. A few miles to the west, India's capital of America, Gallup, where businesses still remain traditional Indian.
But New Mexico, as well as Arizona, is an arid land, rough, ocher; that of the cowboy and Indian movies, rocks, authentic scenarios of a film by John Ford, in which a Navajo can peer into the abyss. The clouds look like cotton and in the distance freight trains glide kilometer of eternal rattle. Tens of wagons pulled by several locomotives are drawn far barren land for hundreds of miles the traveler keeps to himself.
Arizona, also houses the Grand Canyon (have to deviate from the route to visit), a huge crater of a meteorite that slammed there for thousands of years or a petrified forest, is a state of extreme.
Determined move westward, with and a few thousand miles on two wheels. The sky is falling despite the desert imposed its judgment. But clouds have downloaded furiously pregnant, and take refuge in the blue shortly before Hoolbrook, where we soaked. The town, where one can spend the night in a tepee, is traversed by Route 66.
It's in the Road 66. Myths, legends, stories, roads, literature, music, freedom, hope, sadness ...
Arizona is the state precisely who first decided to keep an artery in his day splendor that fell into the claws of oblivion. To reward the efforts of associations for the preservation of the route, in 1987 the full stretch of Arizona was declared "historic". This explains why many people focus their path in the last few hundred kilometers, where the signal of Historic Route 66 is repeated every mile and maintenance of the historic restaurants and gas stations maintained in good condition, but in fact has already been behind the wild, the continuing doubt. From here the legendary route is a tourist attraction. Nothing to do with ghost towns or kilometers where there is hardly any civilization.
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But, so the traveler looks on Route 66 is his own legend. It is said that each person makes their way according to their own universe. Throughout the road, from Chicago to Los Angeles, stories are varied. From the couple who mounts his beast one Sunday a group of Swiss slowly and with a guide, even with a support car, complete historic route. Burning U.S. roads is not unique heritage of those who wish to complete the Mother Road, Steinbeck christened as.
With no more effort than our own adventure, we got to California, the last state: something like a promised land. It was in the difficult years 30 with the mass migrations; in the 40 with the war industry thriving in the heat of war; and in 50 as a symbol of tourism, arose where the parks and the car became a symbol of freedom. To add more history and nuances to the path, was in San Francisco where Jack Kerouac and his children set up their headquarters: the Beat generation made the road and the freedom their life; Drug, sex and jazz hobbies. In short, accelerated existence is reflected in a literature with a style revolutionized, as poems which hold their breath is a constant challenge.
While on the way, biblia beat, follows the adventures of Kerouac and Cassady, is a free manual for those who choose to dive on a trip through the U.S.. The beat was the germ of other movements that later would rise against the establishment around a unifying element: the Vietnam War. A whole counterculture movement Theodore Roszak analyzed in the birth of a counterculture festival the same year the quintessential hippie, Woodstock, Easy Ryder film, and two years after the Summer of Love 1967.
Because it's all in the Route 66. Myths, legends, stories, roads, literature, music, freedom, hope, sadness ... It is the widest path, more aspects of the planet. Hence its role in history. Motorcycle, en Chevrolet o en un Ford Mustang, alone or in groups, the route is much more than a vein that crosses the entire organism in constant boiling: is the culmination of a dream whose boundaries are expanded far beyond the imagination.
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