Memorial to route 66

Day 193 -

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March 5th 2008
Obfuscator writes: We had a Continental Breakfast consisting of donuts and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches before leaving our Holbrook Motel for the Petrified Forest. The town of Holbrook seems to have an abundance of big plexiglass dinosaurs at every conceivable location. That would be pretty cool, you know, if they were big and scary and had sharp teeth for killing tourists. These were som ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more