by Jim Hinckley | Feb 23, 2019 | Kingman, Our Area, Travel, Uncategorized
Legend has it that the founding of the town immortalized in a little ditty from Bobby Troup about a highway signed with two sixes traces its founding to California bound pioneers traveling the Beale Wagon Road who stopped to wait for the wind to quit blowing. People...
by Jim Hinckley | Apr 1, 2018 | Our Area, Travel, Uncategorized
On Highway 89, half way down the hill into the historic district of Prescott, there is a cross street sign that reads Senator Highway. At first, this “highway” seems to be merely a pleasant street of beautiful older homes, a scene lifted from a Norman Rockwell print....
by Jim Hinckley | Apr 1, 2018 | Our Area, Travel, Uncategorized
It was once a place deemed so vital to national security and commerce that a military outpost was established to protect it. Two decades before Arizona moved from territory to statehood it was front and center in the creation of an engineering marvel. By the dawn of...