Road trips 2019
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The road trip from Moab, Utah, to Ajo, Ariz., is a sunbaked ramble through about 600 miles of dreamy, lethal desert, beginning with the red rocks of Utah’s Arches National Park, skirting Monument Valley and the Colorado River, and ending in the cactus country of southern Arizona.
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The route: Oregon 131 from Tillamook to Cape Meares through Oceanside and Netarts, then backtrack south on Oregon 131 and Whiskey Creek Road past Cape Lookout, following Cape Lookout Road and Sandlake Road south to Cape Kiwanda and Pacific City.
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The route: From Taos, N.M., take U.S. 64 west to County Road CB-115/Upper Rim Road west, then New Mexico 567 west to U.S. 285 south in Carson.
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The route: From Portland, Ore., drive east on Interstate 84, cross the Bridge of the Gods toll bridge to Washington 14 east to Bingen, Wash.
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In May 1968, I took a road trip with my father to see Cesar Chavez and Bobby Kennedy speak in the Central Valley farm town of Delano.
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The route: Los Angeles to Interstate 5 north to California 126 west through Piru, Fillmore and Santa Paula to California 150 north to Ojai.
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We were taking a smarty-pants car through honky-tonky country — Reno to Las Vegas.
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You don’t have to cross state lines to take a memorable road trip.
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The route: From downtown Durango, Colo., take Main Avenue to West College Drive.
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Your trip starts out great. You’re on the road. You’re free. You’re...surrounded by semi-trucks.
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The route: From Taos, N.M., east on U.S. 64 through Eagle Nest and Cimarron to Raton, then New Mexico 72 to Capulin Volcano National Monument.
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The route: Part of the fun of this Route 66 road trip is choosing your route to Barstow.
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“Maybe you just aren’t RV people.”
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American families have been taking road trips for as long as we’ve had automobiles.
