Grand Canyon Caverns, Arizona
Travelling the Historic Route 66 gives you a little extra surprise down each mile. The longest unspoiled section of Route 66 lies in the Western part of Arizona. When Interstate 40 was built a section of Route 66 was bypassed from Seligman, Arizona to the California Border. The section remains today as a picture of Route 66. In fact the creators of the Disney / Pixar movie "Cars" used this section as the theme and storyline of their movie.
About 25 miles west of Seligman lies a world famous attraction that has served travellers since the 30's, the Grand Canyon Caverns. The attraction was so popular in the 50's that Route 66 was widen to four lanes around the attraction laying claim to the first four lane hiway in Arizona.
Today the four lane section remains and the attraction is still a must see as being a dry cavern only a few in the world are available for public access.
At 10:00 am this morning my family and I descended the 21 stories into the dry cavern. The suprise that I did not see coming is that the Kennedy Administration and the U.S. Government prepared to use this as a fallout shelter during the Cuban Missle Crisis. In one of the photos you can see hundreds of 17.5 gallon barrels of water and crates of crackers from 1963. The fallout supplies placed there from the Kennedy Administration are still there, unspoiled and because of the lack of humidity less than 4%, the water and crackers are still edible. I found this all fascinating not only because the supplies are still there but by the fact Kennedy was making preparations for the "what if?".
Today, the USA is at a crossroads with two rougue dictators and the nations of North Korea and Iran. By all accounts they both have nuclear weapons and the rhetoric toward the USA by both nations is reaching heightened concern and potential fallout. So, my question, is Obama planning or is this situation above his pay grade and he does not know what to do? I do not have the answer, but I do know Israel is prepared for Iran and Israel will go it alone if necessary.
I also know a great place you can go to ride out the storm if either one of these dictators gets trigger happy, the Grand Canyon Caverns.
-Lex Rex
You can even lie down on the road for a long time.
Posted by: seo services | March 08, 2011 at 10:11 PM