Brown's Hotel in the Catskills. This club hosted Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr, Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Liberace, and Jerry Lee Lewis. Now it hosts only mold and a ravens nest.
When they needed to expand the Pennsylvania Turnpike it was cheaper to reroute some portions of it than to drill a second traffic tube through the mountains
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As we raced this storm that rolled down the mountain out of Flagstaff we stopped at both Twin Arrows and Two Guns. The storm was really moving fast at this point and it overtook us while we were here or I would have run around and taken more pictures
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On 3/4/22 we cleared through Flagstaff as a snowstorm came rolling down the mountain and a huge windstorm was in advance. Honestly it was pretty epic. Twin Arrows was super interesting and I am glad we stopped.
We stopped on our way back to Albuquerque at a few abandoned places. We checked out the outside of Meteor City - although there were a bunch of cameras outside and it didn't look so abandoned as I had hoped.
3/1/22 - we made our way up to Zion National Park. It was gorgeous and still partially snowed in so there wasn't really much we could do and the paths that were open were ankle deep mud. One day I'm going back. I really wanted to hike The Subway but even with a 4 wheel drive Jeep we weren't making it off-road to the trailhead. The weather was
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You ever drive past somewhere a thousand times and then suddenly you go past there at a different time of year and you spot something off in some overgrown trees you've never spotted before and you make a mental note to go check it out and then one day you do? There was a mound of ivy and crap that was the remains of a small house but it didn't
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