{"id":251,"date":"2010-07-19T19:29:06","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T00:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/?p=251"},"modified":"2017-06-27T03:51:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T08:51:31","slug":"amboy-and-needles-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/?p=251","title":{"rendered":"Amboy and Needles, CA"},"content":{"rendered":"

I stopped at Needles in mid-afternoon – it is just too hot to keep going during the day, so I’m switching to night driving for a while. Of course, that means I’ll probably get rained on in the dark…<\/p>\n

I left I-40 at Ludlow and headed onto Route 66:
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About 10 miles down the road from Ludlow, I came upon a classic MG sitting on the side of the road with its hood up. My family had one of these in the 60’s, and it is a tradition to stop and swap war stories (and parts!) when you see one. I offered the driver some water and we chatted for a bit. His name was Jason and he was driving all of the still-existing parts of Route 66, starting in Chicago. You can’t make it out in the picture, but that’s a Chicago British Car Union badge on the car’s grille. He was just letting the car cool down, as cars of that era tend to run a bit hot (particularly when exported from the cooler British climate to the US):
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After chatting a while, we both motored on down the road in our separate directions, and I arrived at Roy’s in Amboy. I was amazed to see that it was actually open and selling gas, soda, souvenirs and so on – all at very reasonable prices:
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The last time I came through (in 2004) the whole town had a “For Sale” sign on it:
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I chatted with the folks running the store for a bit – apparently they’re planning on re-opening the motel \/ cabins in the future. The biggest issue seems to be that they don’t have any sort of septic \/ sewer system at the moment. While I was in there, nearly a dozen separate batches of visitors came in and went out – it is becoming quite a popular spot (well, for the middle of nowhere) again.<\/p>\n

One parting picture and I was on the road again, heading East:
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I stopped at Needles in mid-afternoon – it is just too hot to keep going during the day, so I’m switching to night driving for a while. Of course, that means I’ll probably get rained on in the dark… I left I-40 at Ludlow and headed onto Route 66: About 10 miles down the road […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.atomacrossamerica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}