Locator: 44662TX.
Wow, this one map .... can take one down so many rabbit holes.
It would be impossible to re-trace my history from this map to Ken Kesey but last night during the witching hour it was quite an adventure.
Other rabbit holes and links:
- Reeves: a confederate colonel
- playa
- pecos
- toyah
- Toyah Lake
- Salt Draw
- Pecos River
- Saragosa
- Antonio de Espejo
- La Junta, Colorado
- Santa Fe Trail
- the La Escalera Ranch
- Paul Krassner
- the Yippies
- Jews: American Popular Culture.
- to get to Ken Kesey, it was via La Junta, Colorado, I believe, but I forget.
On numerous cross-country trips from DFW to Flathead, MT, I had the opportunity to pass through La Junta many times, but I don't recall visiting La Junta, so most likely after heading north out of Amarillo to Pueblo, I turned northwest at Dumas, TX, to take a shorter route to I-25 via Raton, New Mexico, just south of the Colorado state line.
Next time I drive to Flathead Lake, I will make a special note to pass through La Junta, Spanish for junction, where the Santa Fe trail intersected with a road to Pueblo.
Santa Fe Trail, the north/mountain route, today (?), sixteen hours driving time:
- north-northeast out of Santa Fe on I-25
- northeast at Trinidad, Colorado, exiting onto US Highway 350
- a number of short stretches of various highways angling northwest from La Junta to Eads, Colorado
- a very short direct northerly route at Eads, Colorado (US Highway 287)
- connect with I-40 at Kit Carson and then all the way on I-40 to points east, including Kansas City, via Topeka
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