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Desert Oasis in the Middle of Nowhere

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Desert Oasis in the Middle of Nowhere (www.ladybugblog.com)

Dateland, Arizona | Interstate 8 at Milepost 67 Located about halfway between Yuma and Gila Bend on Interstate 8 in the Arizona desert, the small town of Dateland has been a welcome site to weary travelers for three generations and counting. Established in the early 1920s as a water stop along the railroad lines, Dateland is in […]

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Meteor Crater

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Meteor Crater - Title image - Krista's LadyBug Adventures (www.ladybugblog.com)

Arizona Route 66 Side Trip to Meteor Crater Fifty thousand years ago, a giant fireball streaked across the North American sky and crash landed into the desert that is now northern Arizona. Over fifty years ago, NASA used this same spot as one of its lunar training sites. What is this place? If you guessed Barringer’s […]