Road Trip: San Diego to Arizona In One Day

A fun day trip up from San Diego to Arizona victimisation Roadside America as a templet for offbeat wayside Chicago.

Having felt like a bit of a prisoner in my own home for a few years this hebdomad (with Flynn being contagious) I resorted to scouring the Roadside US website (thanks to my friend Sharlene for acquiring me addicted to that) and chromosome mapping out day trips that we could take the kids on where they wouldn't be in contact with other children.

Today we did our first one to the California/Arizona border.  IT was absolutely stinking hot outside with the temperature reaching 106 now and again but we had a great day and proverb so many offbeat places.  I love exit to places that other people would ne'er even flirt with going to and wear't even out know exist.  I especially love places that you drive knightly and don't even think or so until you know the amazing history behind their being.

FIRST Closure: OFFICIAL CENTER OF THE WORLD

Now I'm beautiful sure that this really isn't the center of the world however the Mayor of Felicity (titled later his wife Felicia Lee and elected into office with a unanimous vote of 2-0) Jacques-Andre Istel somehow convinced the Imperial County of Calif. to legally make a spot on his property the official center.  He built a Pyramid there later all Felicity is one of the driest and hottest places in the U.S. and information technology's in the Sonoran desert, so why the heck not.  In that location is a bronze disk on the trading floor but unluckily, we were unable to go inside the pyramid today as this tourist destination is only open to the public betwixt Dec and March.  At that place is also a little church rump the Pyramids of Egypt and a 25-ft spiral staircase salvaged from the Eiffel Tower.  I'll be predestined to point back again during tourer season so I can place my toe along the bronzy magnetic disc, make my wish and receive my certificate.

S ECOND STOP: Regional PRISON

The Territorial Prison house in Yuma, Arizona has been closed since 1909 but for the 33 years that it operated thither were over 3,000 men and 29 women jailed there.  Some of the crimes I found were quite bizarre, Beaver State should I say not the kind of crimes combined would be jailed for or put down into solitary confinement for these years.  Then there is what was acknowledged Eastern Samoa the 'Darkening Mobile phone' which was tilt black when the door was shut and Lashkar-e-Taiba me state you, we went in there and we all had a touch sensation of queasiness, you literally couldn't see a thing roughly you.

I'm not confident if you sack take the 2 below profiles so in vitrine you can't prisoner no.1 was sentenced to 2 years for manslaughter and 3 days in solitary for acedia.  Prisoner no.2 was sentenced to 2 days for seduction under the promise of marriage.  How many women wish this was still a law of nature? haha.

From a prisoner in my own plate to 'captive'

THIRD STOP: BRIDGE TO NOWHERE

The McPhaul Bridge deck (named after Arizona Ranger Henry Harrison McPhaul) was built in 1929 but they sentiment IT was too flimsy and later on building a dam upstream in 1968 they diverted the river and rerouted the main road o'er a little bridge.  That bridge ended up collapsing in a flood in 1993 but the other bridge although being closed tranquil stands and leads to nowhere.

FOURTH Stopover: TINY CHURCH

This tiny church in Yuma, Arizona was built by a farmer on the inch of his William Claude Dukenfield in accolade of his wife.  IT measures around 7ft x 12 ft inside.  It is aboveboard the sweetest little church I undergo e'er seen.  IT was actually open when we got there and although nobody was in in that respect we signed the visitor log up and left a donation.

FIFTH STOP: Microscopic CANNON

Unfortunately, we were spurting out of time on our little road trip indeed this was more of a drive-by photography session.  We didn't have time to venture into the Yuma Proving Ground to chatter the museum or other equipment on display but we did pay back to see the 200mm gun-howitzer at the entrance.

SIXTH &A; FINAL STOP: MUFFLER MAN – MUTANT COWBOY

On the face of it, Damper Manpower can be spotted all concluded America's highways.  They were built by a company owned by Steve Dashew called International Fiberglass from the mid-1960s to about 1974.  They were oversubscribed as 'aid getters' for retail stores.  If you spot one of these hulking figures report them hither.

NOW FOR Whatever Ergodic PHOTOS FROM OUR Itinerant TRIP.

Let's start with the temperature that it reached from time to tim

and now for some random shots from the drive

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