Road To Oatman, AZ and Other Points of Interest
This last weekend we left the giant schnauzers at home and headed for Kingman, AZ and points beyond. It was a fascinating trip and one we thoroughly enjoyed. We have a love of junk stores and antique shops which are numerous in Kingman. Early Saturday morning we drove towards the Colorado River and then south and came in the Western road and on to Route 66 to Oatman. Tom pointed out some plate shifts that had occurred thousands of years before. These can be seen right along I 40 in Kingman. Now you know what is going on during earthquakes.
We stopped and took old roads along the way, enjoying some rock hounding and the scenery. We only have 4WD and not a Jeep, so we had to turn back sometimes. But the scenery was spectacular!
We drove over to Laughlin and these are the Arizona mountains from the Laughlin side of the Colorado River.
Our favorite part of the trip was visiting Oatman, Arizona and the burros. Oatman was founded more than 100 years ago as a gold mining camp. Supposedly two miners found a ten million dollar strike in 1915 and the two swelled to several thousand people. Fire burned down many of the wood shacks in 1921 and then in 1939 Clark Gable and Carol Lombard honeymooned there. Gable returned several times to play poker so the story goes. In the restaurant at the Oatman Hotel where the Gables stayed is a restaurant that has the walls papered in signed one dollar bills. It is quite amazing to see and the buffalo burger was very good!
But our favorite part of Oatman is the wild/semi tame burros that wander the town. Vendors sell bags of carrots and the burros will follow people anywhere to get them from you. One of the burros even yanked on my shirt from behind and tried to nip at me to get the last of the carrots I was hoarding. Reminded me a lot of giant schnauzers!!!
Tom had fun with the burros. Some of the people who visit are a little intimidated by the burros, but they did remind us a lot of giant schnauzers. Tom quickly had the burros taking carrots from his mouth. But he did so very carefully. I will post photos of Route 66 and some of the sights from that part of the trip tomorrow.
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