<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Latest entries from dwayne.blog-city.com</title><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/</link><description></description><copyright>Copyright 2008 dwayne.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 12:39:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Latest entries from dwayne.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>30 Days of Neon - Brooks Fabrics</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__brooks_fabrics.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__brooks_fabrics.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 13:07:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=30%5Fdays%5Fof%5Fneon%5F%5Fbrooks%5Ffabrics</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Brooks Fabrics is located in Bountiful, UT, north of Salt Lake City. I found this one by accident while I was trying to locate a thrift store that didn&#39;t exist. The ladies inside said that the store has been open since the early 1950&#39;s.]]></description></item><item><title>30 Days of Neon - Grand Canyon Cafe</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__grand_canyon_cafe.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__grand_canyon_cafe.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 02:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=30%5Fdays%5Fof%5Fneon%5F%5Fgrand%5Fcanyon%5Fcafe</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Grand Canyon Cafe in Flagstaff, AZ offers, of all things, chop suey. I stopped inside and was about to ask why the sign offered that dish when I met the owner, a very nice Asian man. Here are a few shots of the sign and the cafe.There were severa]]></description></item><item><title>30 Days of Neon - Los Alamitos Motel</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__los_alamitos_motel.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__los_alamitos_motel.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 18:42:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=30%5Fdays%5Fof%5Fneon%5F%5Flos%5Falamitos%5Fmotel</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Grants, NM. Los Alamitos Motel is gone and all that remains is this sign. This one resides on Route 66 as well, just west of the closed Uranium Cafe.]]></description></item><item><title>30 Days of Neon - Tonto Drive In</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__tonto_drive_in.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__tonto_drive_in.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 02:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=30%5Fdays%5Fof%5Fneon%5F%5Ftonto%5Fdrive%5Fin</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Tonto Drive In on the west side of Winslow, AZ on Route 66. The screen and the projection booth are gone and all that remains is the sign &amp; probably not for very much longer.Here is a shot  of the screen &amp; projection booth.&nbsp;]]></description></item><item><title>30 Days of Neon - Sage Motel</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__sage_motel.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__sage_motel.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=30%5Fdays%5Fof%5Fneon%5F%5Fsage%5Fmotel</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The lovely (closed) Sage Motel in Needles, CA on Route 66. I enjoy the palm trees in the background. Clicking makes it bigger.]]></description></item><item><title>30 Days of Neon - Motel Sierra Vista</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__motel_sierra_vista.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__motel_sierra_vista.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=30%5Fdays%5Fof%5Fneon%5F%5Fmotel%5Fsierra%5Fvista</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I bet you thought this was gonna be 30 consecutive days of neon. Well, so did I, pal, so did I. Let&#39;s get back to it shall we?Motel Sierra Vista in Flagstaff, Arizona. This sign, obviously not in working order is a nice oddity. It is two sided bu]]></description></item><item><title>30 Days of Neon - 66 Motel</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__66_motel.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__66_motel.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 02:47:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=30%5Fdays%5Fof%5Fneon%5F%5F66%5Fmotel</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Sorry about the gaps, the wi-fi at my&nbsp;hotel stinks (I&#39;m&nbsp;in Utah, teaching classes for Spacely Sprockets)&nbsp;When Lovely Wife &amp; I took our Route 66 trip we didn&#39;t make it to Santa Monica, just to Needles, CA. Here is the 66 Mot]]></description></item><item><title>30 Days of Neon - Jerry&apos;s Mexican American Cafe</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__jerrys_mexican_american_cafe.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__jerrys_mexican_american_cafe.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=30%5Fdays%5Fof%5Fneon%5F%5Fjerrys%5Fmexican%5Famerican%5Fcafe</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Gallup, NM, a mecca for the neon lover &amp; the Route 66 lover. Gallup was just chuck full of cafes and motels. Sadly, Lovely Wife &amp; I were pretty tired from the days drive and we were also chuck full of Mexican food, otherwise we would have tri]]></description></item><item><title>30 Days of Neon - The Plainsman</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__the_plainsman.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__the_plainsman.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=30%5Fdays%5Fof%5Fneon%5F%5Fthe%5Fplainsman</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The Plainsman is a closed restaurant on Route 66 in Holbrook, AZ. It&#39;s just west of the Wigwam Motel at 1001 W Hopi Rd.This sign has a lot of great things going for it, the &quot;Cocktails&quot; powder horn, the giant rifle, the 60&#39;s portrait]]></description></item><item><title>30 Days of Neon - Jack&apos;s Bar-B-Q</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__jacks_barbq.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/30_days_of_neon__jacks_barbq.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:14:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=30%5Fdays%5Fof%5Fneon%5F%5Fjacks%5Fbarbq</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[With our recent trip west on Route 66 and me finally getting the pictures uploaded and cataloged, I thought this would be a good time for 30 Days of Neon.&nbsp; Jacks&#39; Bar-B-Q at 4418 NW 39th St. Bethany, Oklahoma. This is on Route 66 and Lovely]]></description><category>photos: oklahoma</category><category>vintage signs</category><category>neon</category><category>photos</category><category>oklahoma</category></item><item><title>Route 66 road trip photos in Flickr.</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66_road_trip_photos_in_flickr.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66_road_trip_photos_in_flickr.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=route%5F66%5Froad%5Ftrip%5Fphotos%5Fin%5Fflickr</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here are several links for our Flickr pages for the photos that we took on our recent Route 66 road trip.Here is Day 1 - OKC to Amarillo And Day 2- Amarillo to Santa Fe And Day 3 - Santa Fe to the Gallup NM And Day 4 - Gallup, NM to The Grand Canyon]]></description></item><item><title>Route 66 - Day 10, the end of the line</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_10_the_end_of_the_line.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_10_the_end_of_the_line.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:11:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=route%5F66%5F%5Fday%5F10%5Fthe%5Fend%5Fof%5Fthe%5Fline</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We decided to extend our vacation just one more day and travel Route 66 from Wellston west to Bethany. We hopped on the turnpike and exited at Wellston. The first thing we discovered, thanks to our book, was a concrete totem pole at the BBQ joint rig]]></description></item><item><title>Route 66 - Day 9</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_9.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_9.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 05 Apr 2008 15:39:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=route%5F66%5F%5Fday%5F9</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[For the last stretch of our trip home (Tucumcari, NM to OKC, OK) we decided to be sure to hit the parts that we had missed on the way out (except for Amarillo which we will pick up on a later trip). Of course, if you&#39;re traveling through the Texa]]></description></item><item><title>Route 66 - Day 8</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_8.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_8.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:58:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=route%5F66%5F%5Fday%5F8</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Packin&#39; up at the Wigwam we thought we needed a good breakfast. We tooled down the road and there was Joe &amp; Angie&#39;s. Mexican food? Not havinig got enough of that, we parked and went in. I got the breakfast burrito and Lovely Wife got the]]></description></item><item><title>Route 66 - Day 7</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_7.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_7.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:18:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=route%5F66%5F%5Fday%5F7</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;(sorry for the late posting, but the WigWam has no WiFi) The drive into Flagstaff eastbound was fantastic. The road winds through the trees and the San Francisco Mountains covered with snow beckon ahead of you. We found a large slab of road hea]]></description></item><item><title>Route 66 - Day 6</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_6.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_6.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:54:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=route%5F66%5F%5Fday%5F6</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[So we jumped out of bed at the crack of dawn and drove.....wait, I got ahead of myself. We learned that the burros up in Oatman don&#39;t get into town until around 10, so we took our time getting out of Kingman and heading up to Oatman. We were tool]]></description></item><item><title>Route 66 - Trip notes</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__trip_notes.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__trip_notes.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:46:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=route%5F66%5F%5Ftrip%5Fnotes</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After looking at the maps, books, distances, and talking with a couple from California, we have made the decision to make Needles, California our western stopping point. The California couple, road enthusiasts themselves, said that once you hit San B]]></description></item><item><title>Route 66 - Day 5</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_5.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_5.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:02:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=route%5F66%5F%5Fday%5F5</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What happens when you mix the world&#39;s largest prairie dog metropolis, the funniest hamburger in the world, a red mustang, German motorcyclists, a huge herd of sheep, and a Belgum couple? You get the best damn day on Route 66 that I think could be]]></description></item><item><title>Route 66 - Day 4</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_4.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_4.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:53:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=route%5F66%5F%5Fday%5F4</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If anyone in Oklahoma ever complains about the wind again, unless said wind is rotating, I think I&#39;ll punch them in the throat. I don&#39;t remember the last time I encountered winds as strong as what hit us in Two Guns Arizona, but I&#39;m getti]]></description></item><item><title>Route 66 - Day 3</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_3.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_3.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:04:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=route%5F66%5F%5Fday%5F3</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If you ever want to exfoliate your teeth, just smile in New Mexico and the swirling dust will take care of that for you. It&#39;s Day 3, Santa Fe to Gallup on the pre 1937 route 66. We left Santa Fe on route 66 and stayed on it most of the way on dow]]></description></item><item><title>Route 66 - Day 2</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_2.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_2.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 04:02:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=route%5F66%5F%5Fday%5F2</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp; This morning we rolled out of Amarillo and headed west. We had a few high points that we wanted to be sure to get in. First up was eating at the Midpoint Cafe in Adrian Texas. The Midpoint, owned by Fran, was the inspiration for Flo&#39;s in C]]></description></item><item><title>Route 66 - Day 1</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_1.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/route_66__day_1.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 03:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=route%5F66%5F%5Fday%5F1</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well, we packed up the ducks and headed out, but not before Big Sister called and asked if she could come with us, not before Gr8ful G stopped by and said she was ready to go with us, not before our Cracky doc &amp; his wife asked if they could go wi]]></description></item><item><title>Road trip &apos;08 - Gettin&apos; our kicks</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/road_trip_08__gettin_our_kicks.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/road_trip_08__gettin_our_kicks.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:16:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=road%5Ftrip%5F08%5F%5Fgettin%5Four%5Fkicks</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[&nbsp;Yup, Lovely Wife and I are packing up the van, grabbing a couple of ducks and will be heading west on route 66 next week.Couple of ducks? That&#39;s right, two wooden ducks, Ralph and Lena, will be your guides to our adventures as we tool down]]></description></item><item><title>Tulsa Neon photos - Day 6 - Misc stuff</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://dwayne.blog-city.com/tulsa_neon_photos__day_6__misc_stuff.htm</guid><link>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/tulsa_neon_photos__day_6__misc_stuff.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 21:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://dwayne.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=tulsa%5Fneon%5Fphotos%5F%5Fday%5F6%5F%5Fmisc%5Fstuff</comments><dc:creator>Dwayne</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Here are some of the photos that didn&#39;t really fall into any other category. First up is the Catoosa Indian Maid. 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