This old truck outside the gift shop outside the old Ranchero Motel in the tiny settlement of Anteres, Arizona, in Mohave County along U.S. Highway 66 once advertised the Grand Canyon Caverns, miles down the road near Peach Springs. Much of Route 66, America's best-known historic highway, which was known as the Mother Road, connecting Chicago, Illinois, and Santa Monica, California, in the heyday of cross-country family travel from the 1930s through the 50s, has been subsumed by the nation's high-speed interstate highways. But a bending portion of the old, two-lane highway that survives in western Arizona still draws curiosity-seekers and nostalgia buffs. Photo by Carol Highsmith.