Touring America's Parks with Shayne

Roadkill Cafe is located in Seligman, Arizona.  It was once called O.K. Saloon.  It used to be a saloon.  The logo is "You Kill It, We Grill It."  It serves breakfast, lunch and dinner.  They have some weird plate names to choose from, Deer Delectables, Bad-Brake Steak, Fender Tenders, Caddie-Grilled Patty and many more. It was packed when we went into the building.  We looked at all the artifacts and gift shop. Also next to it is a motel that was once called Navajo Motel and now it's called the Historic Route 66 Motel.  Here is the picture of the sign.  On the website said that the layout of the motel is same has the same layout.  It has been remodeled. Attractions - Pope Enterprises

  Grand Canyon Caverns are a place that you can go down into some caves.  The place was open, but I could not go down the elevator.  There is a gift shop and a restaurant.  There is also a motel that you can stay in.  The cool thing is that about these caves is that you can stay in a room that is part of the cave.  I think you can also eat down there too.  There is a little room that had different kind of artifacts from early year.  There also were dinosaur's statues around the area.

 On the road to Peach Springs on Route 66 I really didn't see anything that was from earlier time.  I have might have missed it. Peach Springs is the "Capital of Hualapai Nation."  We stopped at the Hualapai Lodge Hotel & Resort.  There is a gift shop with tribal art and a restaurant.  We ate at the restaurant for lunch.  I had fried bread with meat.  It was big and very good. Where the resort is used to be Osterman's Auto Court in the 1930's.

 Along route 66 you can see this building. This was the Truxton Canyon Training School.  It was created by President McKinley in 1898.  The school opened in 1901, and the schoolhouse was built in 1903.  It was a boarding house for boys and girls who lived there from September to May.  It was expanded in 1924 and again in 1927 and 1929.  Its bricks were manufactured on site by the Hualapai students. After closing in 1937, two of the three main buildings were demolished.  The fields cultivated by students went fallow and settlement withered.  It is now owned by the Hualapai Indian Nation. Over the 36 years of its existence, it educated around 750 students.  Non-Indian children used another building, the Red Schoolhouse from 1924 to 1969. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places

  On 3/21/2025, my stepmom Cathy and I went to the Tohono Chul located in Tucson, Arizona.  At this place there are a lot of different gardens, trails, galleries, and a bistro. We walked around the gardens and trails and saw some cool things.  There were sculptures to see, different kind of plants and little waters areas.  It was a nice peaceful day. Tohono Chul | Botanical Gardens & Galleries | Tucson AZ

The Oracle Historical Society Museum is located at Acadia Ranch in Oracle, Arizona.  In this museum you see a lot of different artifacts on things about Oracle.  Here is some information about this building. Originally the headquarters of a ranch the Acadia was built around 1880 by ES Dodge who owned a boarding house in Tucson and moved to Oracle for Mrs. Dodge's health.  He named it the Acadia after the settlement in Nova Scotia where they originally lived. From 1885-1901 the Acadia served as Oracle's Post Office after it was moved from American Flag Ranch.  Dodge wanted to name the post office Acadia Ranch, but the USPS would not allow a two-word name, so he chose "Oracle" after one of the first mines in the area established by Weldon and McKay.  Weldon named the mine after the ship he had taken around Cape Horn, "The Oracle." In 1914 Mr. and Mrs. William Neal, owners of the Mountain View Hotel bought the Acadia and operated both until 1923 when they sold ...

  Hackberry General Store aka Northside Grocery is located in Arizona on Route 66.  There was a service station in Hackberry in 1930.  The store opened in 1934 on the new alignment of Route 66 that was built on the northside of the railroad and bypassed the small town.  It had a Conoco gasoline station and remained in operation until the interstate bypassed this section of Route 66 in 1978, that year it closed.  In 1992 it re-opened as a souvenir shop and information center. There are a lot of artifacts from the 40's to the 60's inside the store and outside. I have a little funny story that happened when we were there at the store.  I was at the counter getting my items to buy I saw a roll way rack of shirts going down the driveway from the wind.  The wind was strong.  You see flying clothes, lol.

 Antares is a small community located north of Kingman on the historic segment of Route 66.  This is where Rancheros motel was located around 1965.  Now it is a visitor center.  It was closed when we  stopped by.  You can see the new attraction since 2004, the Giganticus Headicus - the gigantic Tiki head.  Also you can see some old cars too. 14 feet high, painted green and was built with wood and plastered with stucco to give it a stone - like surface.

 In January of 2001, me and my family met up in Long Beach, CA and stayed at the Queen Mary for a few nights. This ship was used during the war and sailing trips across the waters. The room was small and cute.  We had lunch on the ship and walked around the decks.  I do remember seeing different things on the ship. Here is a picture of my sister sitting in front of the window in the room. You should check it out. Long Beach's Coolest Tourist Attraction | The Queen Mary