This year marks the centennial celebration of Route 66.
A recent AAA nationwide survey shows that more than a third of adults are planning road trips to visit the Main Street of America. Arizona’s 385-mile stretch of the Mother Road, which begins in Lupton on the Navajo Nation and ends in Topock near the Colorado River, has odd origins.
Long before all the neon, diners, gas stations and motels dotted this humming highway, the U.S. Army first charted a course along the modern-day path of Route 66, surveying Arizona’s high desert terrain for a wagon trail — with unlikely companions.
‘You’re not going to throw up on me?’
Those companions?…