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Home / Mojave Preserve and Desert bikepacking trips / Fall 2011: Route 66 bicycle-camping—Cady Mountains, Sleeping Beauty and Kelso Dunes Wilderness / Day 1: Route 66 bicycle ride from Barstow to Sleeping Beauty Mountains foothills near Ludlow, CA /

The worn-out pavement on old Route 66 makes for rather rough riding east of Newberry Springs

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2803-route-66.jpg I stop to look across a dry lake on the east end of Newberry Springs toward the I-40 freeway on the opposite shoreThumbnailsSome of the remaining structures along Route 66 east of Newberry Springs are deteriorated or no longer in useI stop to look across a dry lake on the east end of Newberry Springs toward the I-40 freeway on the opposite shoreThumbnailsSome of the remaining structures along Route 66 east of Newberry Springs are deteriorated or no longer in useI stop to look across a dry lake on the east end of Newberry Springs toward the I-40 freeway on the opposite shoreThumbnailsSome of the remaining structures along Route 66 east of Newberry Springs are deteriorated or no longer in useI stop to look across a dry lake on the east end of Newberry Springs toward the I-40 freeway on the opposite shoreThumbnailsSome of the remaining structures along Route 66 east of Newberry Springs are deteriorated or no longer in useI stop to look across a dry lake on the east end of Newberry Springs toward the I-40 freeway on the opposite shoreThumbnailsSome of the remaining structures along Route 66 east of Newberry Springs are deteriorated or no longer in useI stop to look across a dry lake on the east end of Newberry Springs toward the I-40 freeway on the opposite shoreThumbnailsSome of the remaining structures along Route 66 east of Newberry Springs are deteriorated or no longer in use

Bump, bump, bump. It goes on like this for miles. The mountain patch in the distance is Sleeping Beauty, my destination today.