The Road Less Traveled Is Sometimes Less Traveled for A Reason

 May 3, 2026

   Just got home from a very long, and successful road tip to my old stomping grounds in Yavapai County. Met some great folks in Seligman at the Centennial of Route 66 Celebration.

Seligman Prancer On Old 66

(he is in a band, of course)

Sarah Jane "Wonderhussy"

(she has 300,000 followers on Facebook)

Tim With His Bumper Cars

"It Got Out of Hand"

   Spotted these "legal bumper cars" lined up on the street and I asked the guy who owned them if they were for rent and he said, "No, they're just for looking at." When I asked him why he did so many of them he shrugged, and said, "It got out of hand."

   Man, does that cover a lot of male behavior over the past 10,000 years!

The Delgadillo Family Royalty

(being photographed at the opening ceremony)

Proof The Delgadillos Have High IQs

   I was introduced to the above crowd by Mirna Delgadillo and I proceeded to tell my many sordid tales of growing up on the Mother Road. Later in the day, I ran into Rebecca Delgadilo (from the Hollister, California wing of the family) who gushed, "I love you! I love your stories!" It was so over the top I replied, facetiously: "Should we get married?" To which she said, "How will you support us? And I said, "I run a magazine." And she said, "No thanks." So, as you can see, the Delgadillo offspring are smart as well.

   That was on Thursday. On Friday morning I took off on a delightful back roads adventure, coming in the back way on Williamson Valley Road to Prescott. I didn't meet or see one car for the first twenty five miles. And, after the third such danger sign, I had to stop and take a photo of a "Duh" update.

Williamson Valley Road Warning

   My guess is the state highway department had to put these signs up (I think I counted 25 of them) because someone sued over not being warned. Or, to put it another way, "it got out of hand."

The Razz Band Stumbles On

   On Saturday afternoon we got ready for the shindig at the Hazelton Theater, next to Murphy's in downtown Prescott. Things did not go as planned. That story tomorrow.

"Lying about the West in general and the Southwest in particular has been a cottage industry for over a century."

—Charles Bowden