Sincap and Yasemin in Las Vegas
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Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Monday June 04, 2007
Day 12 Monday June 04, 2007 | Total miles so far: 4244 (click on map to enlarge)
Ali In in his garden tasting his own grapes.
Desert Hot Springs CA - Kelso CA 131 mi (about 2 hours 44 mins)
1940s: Roy and Buster become partners and grow the business into a 24 hour garage, expand the cafe and add motel to the cabins and offer 24x7 service.
Kelso CA - Pimms NV - Las Vegas NV 94.2 mi (about 1 hour 37 mins)
Amboy was founded as a mining site and got active before the railroad gave it a stop. Even today there is still a busy railroad running through the desert in Amboy. Roy's is located on Historic Route 66 in Amboy, California. The town of Amboy itself is in the Mojave desert. The site of Roy's has become an icon for a lonely desert gas stop due to the multiple appearances of Roy's in movies. Currently the town of Amboy is owned by Albert Okura, who also owns the Juan Pollo restaurant chain. Fortunately he is dedicated to preserving Amboy in a 1950's look and feel and will try to restore the site to it's former glory.
Part of the 1986 motion picture The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer was filmed in Amboy
The 2006 Pixar film Cars takes place mostly in an abandoned, former Route 66 boomtown called "Radiator Springs" that was based on Amboy.
Yasemin Arrives on a United flight from Washington DC
Erju flies out on a Delta flight DL714 to Atlanta/ DL 414 to Washington Reagan National
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Ali In in his garden tasting his own grapes.Desert Hot Springs CA - Kelso CA 131 mi (about 2 hours 44 mins)
1940s: Roy and Buster become partners and grow the business into a 24 hour garage, expand the cafe and add motel to the cabins and offer 24x7 service.
Kelso CA - Pimms NV - Las Vegas NV 94.2 mi (about 1 hour 37 mins) Amboy was founded as a mining site and got active before the railroad gave it a stop. Even today there is still a busy railroad running through the desert in Amboy. Roy's is located on Historic Route 66 in Amboy, California. The town of Amboy itself is in the Mojave desert. The site of Roy's has become an icon for a lonely desert gas stop due to the multiple appearances of Roy's in movies. Currently the town of Amboy is owned by Albert Okura, who also owns the Juan Pollo restaurant chain. Fortunately he is dedicated to preserving Amboy in a 1950's look and feel and will try to restore the site to it's former glory.
Part of the 1986 motion picture The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer was filmed in Amboy
The 2006 Pixar film Cars takes place mostly in an abandoned, former Route 66 boomtown called "Radiator Springs" that was based on Amboy.
Yasemin Arrives on a United flight from Washington DC
Erju flies out on a Delta flight DL714 to Atlanta/ DL 414 to Washington Reagan National
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Sunday June 03, 2007
Day 11 Sunday June 03, 2007 | Total miles so far: 4018 (click on map to enlarge)
San Diego CA - Hollywood CA 126 mi (about 2 hours 8 mins)
Alan Inn (left) Mirnav (right). Where/ In Lucky Devil on Hollywood Boulevard.
Why? It was not possible to meet for lunch at historic Musso & Frank Grill (at 6667 Hollywood Blvd) the oldest restaurant in Hollywood and sit in the dark wood booths where F. Scott Fitzgerald and Charlie Chaplin once dined, and soak up the Raymond Chandler ambiance. It was closed on Sundays.
Ali In (aka Alan Inne), classmate from Kadikoy Maarif Koleji 39 years later.
Photo taken in Baja Fresh acrooss Grauman's Chinese on Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles CA - Desert Hot Springs CA -Palm Springs CA 114 mi (about 1 hour 55 mins)
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San Diego CA - Hollywood CA 126 mi (about 2 hours 8 mins)
Alan Inn (left) Mirnav (right). Where/ In Lucky Devil on Hollywood Boulevard. 
Why? It was not possible to meet for lunch at historic Musso & Frank Grill (at 6667 Hollywood Blvd) the oldest restaurant in Hollywood and sit in the dark wood booths where F. Scott Fitzgerald and Charlie Chaplin once dined, and soak up the Raymond Chandler ambiance. It was closed on Sundays.
Ali In (aka Alan Inne), classmate from Kadikoy Maarif Koleji 39 years later.Photo taken in Baja Fresh acrooss Grauman's Chinese on Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles CA - Desert Hot Springs CA -Palm Springs CA 114 mi (about 1 hour 55 mins)He said:
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Saturday June 02, 2007
Day 10 Saturday June 02, 2007
San Diego CA Just hanging around.
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San Diego CA Just hanging around.
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Friday June 1, 2007
Day 9 Friday June 1, 2007 | Total miles so far: 3778 (click on map to enlarge)
San Diego CA - Los Angeles CA 131 mi (about 2 hours 18 mins)
Los Angeles CA - San Diego CA 131 mi (about 2 hours 18 mins)
Video Interview with Anthony Slide (Author on the right in the photo taken in his screening room) on his book Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian
The 1919 Film: Ravished Armenia: The Story of Aurora Mardiganian, The Christian Girl Who Lived Through The Great Massacres (Kingsfield Press, New York), which chronicled the suffering of 17-year-old Aurora Mardiganian (starring as herself) and other Armenians at the hand of the Young Turks in the Ottoman Empire. Ravished Armenia depicts not only deportations and massacres but also the sexual violence implied by its title—a significant part of the violence to be sure, but overemphasized. It was this aspect that the press fixated on, and that excited public interest. The New York Times wrote of "Turkish Harems" and "Turkish Slave Markets," and the Los Angeles Evening Express saw the film's model in the "conventional Arabian Nights slave market and harem scene," wherein, "'with other naked girls, pretty Aurora Mardiganian was sold for eighty-five cents.'" After the deportations, massacres and rapes, Ravished Armenia ends with Aurora's arrival at the American mission in Tiflis.
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San Diego CA - Los Angeles CA 131 mi (about 2 hours 18 mins)
Los Angeles CA - San Diego CA 131 mi (about 2 hours 18 mins)
Video Interview with Anthony Slide (Author on the right in the photo taken in his screening room) on his book Ravished Armenia and the Story of Aurora Mardiganian
The 1919 Film: Ravished Armenia: The Story of Aurora Mardiganian, The Christian Girl Who Lived Through The Great Massacres (Kingsfield Press, New York), which chronicled the suffering of 17-year-old Aurora Mardiganian (starring as herself) and other Armenians at the hand of the Young Turks in the Ottoman Empire. Ravished Armenia depicts not only deportations and massacres but also the sexual violence implied by its title—a significant part of the violence to be sure, but overemphasized. It was this aspect that the press fixated on, and that excited public interest. The New York Times wrote of "Turkish Harems" and "Turkish Slave Markets," and the Los Angeles Evening Express saw the film's model in the "conventional Arabian Nights slave market and harem scene," wherein, "'with other naked girls, pretty Aurora Mardiganian was sold for eighty-five cents.'" After the deportations, massacres and rapes, Ravished Armenia ends with Aurora's arrival at the American mission in Tiflis.He said:
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Thursday May 31 2007
Day 8 Thursday May 31 2007 Total miles so far: 3516 (click on map to enlarge)
Phoenix AR - San Diego CA 355 mi (about 5 hours 19 mins)
Home of "World Famous Date Shake" DATELAND PALMS RESTAURANT
Established just north of the Mexico border on Interstate 8 between Yuma and Phoenix in the Arizona desert,in the early 1920's, Dateland was originally a water stop along the railroad lines. Back then, the old steam engines had to stop every 5 to 6 miles for water. During the 1940's, Dateland Arizona was the site for two of General Patton's desert training camps, Camp Horn and Camp Hyder. In addition, in 1942, three airstrips were built here in Dateland for training B52 Bombers. Unfortunately, the airfields were only utilized for about two months. The buildings that were built for the airstrips were later used as part of an Italian internment camp.
The Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera) is a palm extensively cultivated for its edible fruit. Due to its long history of cultivation for fruit, its exact native distribution is unknown, but probably originated somewhere in the desert oases of northern Africa.
Dates (Arabic: تمر - Tamr) have been a staple food of the Middle East for thousands of years. They are believed to have originated around the Persian Gulf, and have been cultivated since ancient times from Mesopotamia to prehistoric Egypt, possibly as early as 6000 BC. There is archaeological evidence of date cultivation in eastern Arabia in 4,000 BC. In later times, Arabs spread dates around northern Africa and into Spain, and dates were introduced into California by the Spaniards in 1765, around Mission San Ignacio.
Phoenix AR - San Diego CA 355 mi (about 5 hours 19 mins)
Home of "World Famous Date Shake" DATELAND PALMS RESTAURANT
Established just north of the Mexico border on Interstate 8 between Yuma and Phoenix in the Arizona desert,in the early 1920's, Dateland was originally a water stop along the railroad lines. Back then, the old steam engines had to stop every 5 to 6 miles for water. During the 1940's, Dateland Arizona was the site for two of General Patton's desert training camps, Camp Horn and Camp Hyder. In addition, in 1942, three airstrips were built here in Dateland for training B52 Bombers. Unfortunately, the airfields were only utilized for about two months. The buildings that were built for the airstrips were later used as part of an Italian internment camp.
The Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera) is a palm extensively cultivated for its edible fruit. Due to its long history of cultivation for fruit, its exact native distribution is unknown, but probably originated somewhere in the desert oases of northern Africa.
Dates (Arabic: تمر - Tamr) have been a staple food of the Middle East for thousands of years. They are believed to have originated around the Persian Gulf, and have been cultivated since ancient times from Mesopotamia to prehistoric Egypt, possibly as early as 6000 BC. There is archaeological evidence of date cultivation in eastern Arabia in 4,000 BC. In later times, Arabs spread dates around northern Africa and into Spain, and dates were introduced into California by the Spaniards in 1765, around Mission San Ignacio.
Wednesday May 30, 2007
Day 7 Wednesday May 30, 2007 Phoenix AR
Lunch and Dinner at Mekan Mediterranean Grill
Lunch and Dinner at Mekan Mediterranean Grill
Tuesday May 29, 2007
Day 6 Tuesday May 29, 2007 | Total miles so far: 3161 (click on map to enlarge)
Monday May 28, 2007
Day 5 Monday May 28, 2007 | Total miles so far: 2435 (click on map to enlarge)
Oklahoma City OK - Amarillo TX - Albuquerque NM 543 mi (about 7 hours 48 mins)
NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM
1700 N.E. 63rd Street Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73111
The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum was created to honor those who were killed, those who survived and those changed forever by the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City National Memorial
Oklahoma City OK - Amarillo TX - Albuquerque NM 543 mi (about 7 hours 48 mins)
NATIONAL COWBOY & WESTERN HERITAGE MUSEUM1700 N.E. 63rd Street Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73111
The Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum was created to honor those who were killed, those who survived and those changed forever by the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City National Memorial
Sunday May 27, 2007
Day 4 Sunday May 27, 2007 | Total miles so far: 1892 (click on map to enlarge)
Little Rock AR - Oklahoma City OK - Albuquerque NM 879 mi (about 12 hours 43 mins)
Clinton Library
Indian Casino
Late Dinner Oklahoma City Brick Town
Little Rock AR - Oklahoma City OK - Albuquerque NM 879 mi (about 12 hours 43 mins)Clinton Library
Indian Casino
Late Dinner Oklahoma City Brick Town
Saturday May 26, 2007
Day 3 Saturday May 26, 2007 | Total miles so far: 1013 (click on map to enlarge)
Jackson TN - Memphis TN - Little Rock AR 223 mi (about 3 hours 26 mins)
Graceland
Neely’s
Jackson TN - Memphis TN - Little Rock AR 223 mi (about 3 hours 26 mins)
Graceland
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Friday May 25, 2007
Day 2 Friday May 25, 2007 | Total miles so far: 790 (click on map to enlarge)
Roanoke VA - Knoxville TN - Nashville TN \ 438 mi (about 6 hours 44 mins)
Nashville TN - VA Jackson TN \ 131 mi (about 2 hours 6 mins)
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Knoxville. Frederic Remington sculpture
"Bronco Buster/1895"
Frederic Remington [American Painter and Sculptor, 1861-1909] During a career that spanned less than twenty-five years, Frederic Remington produced a huge body of work illustration, painting, sculpture, fiction and non-fiction - the vast majority of it centered on the West. His influence in shaping the West of the popular imagination cannot be overstated.
Roanoke VA - Knoxville TN - Nashville TN \ 438 mi (about 6 hours 44 mins)
Nashville TN - VA Jackson TN \ 131 mi (about 2 hours 6 mins)
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Knoxville. Frederic Remington sculpture"Bronco Buster/1895"
Frederic Remington [American Painter and Sculptor, 1861-1909] During a career that spanned less than twenty-five years, Frederic Remington produced a huge body of work illustration, painting, sculpture, fiction and non-fiction - the vast majority of it centered on the West. His influence in shaping the West of the popular imagination cannot be overstated.
Remington was born in Canton in northern New York on October 4, 1861. His boyhood fostered a lifelong love of horses and the outdoors, while his father's tales of action as a cavalry officer in the Civil War inspired a passion for things military that found a western focus with the battle of the Little Bighorn during the nation's Centennial Year, 1876. At the age of fourteen Remington was smitten with the urge to go see the West for himself.
As a member of a prominent family, Remington was expected to graduate from college, prepared for a career in business, but spent only a year and a half at Yale University playing football and studying art. After his father's death, he traveled to Montana in 1881, and experienced his first impression of the West. In 1883, he moved to Kansas where he made an unsuccessful attempt at sheep ranching. He made many trips out West and occasionally accompanied the U.S. Cavalry on patrol along the Southwest frontier.
Bronze "Bronco Buster" Amon Carter Museum, Texas
"'Art', wrote Frederic Remington in 1905, 'is a she-devil of a mistress, and if at times in earlier days she would not even stoop to my way of thinking, I have persevered and will so continue.'
Thursday May 24, 2007
Day 1 | Thursday May 24, 2007 | Total miles so far: 221 (click on map to enlarge)
Chantilly, VA - Roanoke, VA / 221 mi (about 3 hours 34 mins)
Chantilly, VA - Roanoke, VA / 221 mi (about 3 hours 34 mins)
Monday, May 28, 2007
5 PM
It is 5 PM. Time to start a cross country trip from Virginia to California. Why not.
He said: Have a blog. Save ideas and pictures.
She said: Hey America here we come from one edge to another.......well lets see who's big.......:-)
He said: Have a blog. Save ideas and pictures.
She said: Hey America here we come from one edge to another.......well lets see who's big.......:-)
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