Tag: Yuma
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Cross-Country, Part 8 (Bonus!)
Finally the end. Or was it? We’d driven most of the way across the United States. Then we spent a full week in Phoenix, Arizona. However, we weren’t completely done. Our rental home agreement ended two days before our return flight so we needed to spend a little time somewhere else. Originally my wife figured we could go down to…
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Cross-Country, Part 3 (County Counting)
I wanted to grab some new counties. That basic objective served as a guidepost, the unifying premise for the entire trip. We would see other things along the route and during most of a week in Phoenix, Arizona, of course. However, make no mistake, I wanted the new counties more than anything else. As noted…
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Plank Roads
I used to drive between Washington, DC and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, nearly every weekend for about eighteen months a number of years ago. I became very familiar with the route and every landmark placed upon it as one might imagine. One of those included an exit for Boydton Plank Road along Interstate 85 near…
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Yuma Anomaly
I received an email message the other day from a first-time reader. He happened to stumble across Twelve Mile Circle randomly through a search engine, hoping to learn the answer to a burning question. I’d never covered the topic on the site before so I didn’t have a ready answer. Nonetheless I found it both…