U.S.66 IN ARIZONA

THE OLD MOTHER ROAD..TWO LANE...THE MOVIE "CARS" HAS A PART IN IT ABOUT RADIATOR SPRINGS...A ONCE VIBRANT LITTLE TOWN ON 66 THAT THE INTERSTATE BYPASSED....YOU SHOULD SEE THAT MOVIE.  NORTHEASTERN ARIZONA HAS A PECULIAR FEEL TO IT.  AN ANCIENT LAND WITH PETRIFIED FOREST, ANCIENT VOLCANOES, CLIFFS WITH ANCIENT WRITINGS, AND OF ALL PLACES, A METEORITE LANDED THERE .  HUGE CRATER.  AND OF COURSE THE SUMMER CLOUDBURSTS...THEY CAME, FLOODED, AND DISAPPEARED ABOUT AS FAST AS THEY CAME.  BACK THEN, THE HIGHWAY DEPT PLACED LITTLE WHITE CROSSES BESIDE THE ROAD TO INDICATE A FATALITY HAD HAPPENED THERE.  SOMETIMES THERE WAS A GROUP OF FIVE OR SIX CROSSES.  THESE BOTHERED ME CONSIDERABLY.  WHAT DO I DO?  DO I JUST NOTE CROSSES WITH NO ATTENDANT THOUGHTS THAT THESE WERE HUMAN BEINGS SEEKING PLEASURE...A VACATION ..;LONG DESERVED.  CERTAINLY THERE WERE CHILDREN IN THESE CROSSES.  IT MADE ME ANGRY THAT LIFE CAN BE SO BRUTAL. ANGER CAN PRODUCE CYNICISM,,,AN EXPRESSION OF THE ABSURDITY OF SUCH AN UN-NECESSARY HORROR.  AND SO I WONDERED IF THOSE DEAR PERSONS HAD A WONDERFUL BREAKFAST IN ORDER TO GET THEIR DAY OFF TO A GOOD START. OH, WHAT A TRIP IT WAS....ANGER, YOU SEE..AND IT IS SOO UGLY. THAT PART OF ARIZONA IS STRANGE IN ANOTHER WAY,  AT DAY BREAK, ITS AS IF THE SPIRIT OF SLEEP COMES IN FOR A VISIT.  YOU CAN GET SO SLEEPY THERE AT FIRST LIGHT.  A REALLY STRANGE AND HAUNTING LAND.   THE B