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Old Route 66 makes a couple of 90-degree turns in order to cross the I-40 freeway

8113-pisgah-crater.jpg I stop at Sleeping Beauty Road for a very short break; it occurs to me that I could ride up this road and do a nice hikeThumbnailsAs old Route 66 crosses the tracks just after an I-40 overpass, I'm briefly facing Pisgah CraterI stop at Sleeping Beauty Road for a very short break; it occurs to me that I could ride up this road and do a nice hikeThumbnailsAs old Route 66 crosses the tracks just after an I-40 overpass, I'm briefly facing Pisgah CraterI stop at Sleeping Beauty Road for a very short break; it occurs to me that I could ride up this road and do a nice hikeThumbnailsAs old Route 66 crosses the tracks just after an I-40 overpass, I'm briefly facing Pisgah CraterI stop at Sleeping Beauty Road for a very short break; it occurs to me that I could ride up this road and do a nice hikeThumbnailsAs old Route 66 crosses the tracks just after an I-40 overpass, I'm briefly facing Pisgah CraterI stop at Sleeping Beauty Road for a very short break; it occurs to me that I could ride up this road and do a nice hikeThumbnailsAs old Route 66 crosses the tracks just after an I-40 overpass, I'm briefly facing Pisgah Crater

There's that "tube of civilization" again, beneath me, of people driving through the desert without experiencing it. That black hill in the distance is part of the Pisgah lava formation, and I'll be passing by it shortly.