Historia 14 Favourite Roads
Ghost towns, perfect asphalt and nobody on it.
The road takes its number from 1849, the year the gold rush began. What is left along it are the towns that were thrown up for the prospectors and abandoned when the gold ran out.Del archivo de camino de Rodrigo
Favourite Roads
Ghost towns, perfect asphalt and nobody on it.
The road takes its number from 1849, the year the gold rush began. What is left along it are the towns that were thrown up for the prospectors and abandoned when the gold ran out.
- 1849La fiebre del oro
- 1880sCuando se acabó
- EmptyEl tráfico
14.1Asfalto excelente, curvas constantes y casi sin tráfico. La felicidad de andar en moto.
14.2La fiebre del oro empezó en 1849 y de ahí salió el número del camino.
14.3Los pueblos se levantaron para alojar a los buscadores, y se abandonaron cuando se acabó el oro.
14.4Lo que queda son pueblos fantasma a la orilla del camino, conservados casi como estaban.
14.5Bencina de surtidores que llevan mucho tiempo ahí.
14.6Puertas de película del oeste, y café detrás de ellas.
14.7Bosque, y la sensación de estar solo en él por millas.
14.8La California del siglo diecinueve, todavía en pie.The road takes its number from 1849, the year the gold rush began. What is left along it are the towns that were thrown up for the prospectors and abandoned when the gold ran out.
Simply spectacular, and almost nobody on it.
Excellent asphalt, constant curves, palpable history and virtually no traffic. I call it the happiness of riding a motorcycle, and it was one of my favourite roads of that first American ride.
Much of it runs through forest and empty country. In places it feels as though there is nothing but trees and animals for many kilometres in every direction.
What the road kept
History you can stop and touch.
Plenty of roads have a view. This one has a century and a half of boom and collapse standing at the roadside, and you can park outside it.Towns built for gold, and left behind by it.
1849 was the year the rush began, and thousands of settlements were improvised to house the prospectors drawn to the Golden State. By 1860 the fever was already fading, and twenty years later it was finished.
What survives are ghost towns along the banks of Route 49. You stop in one, fill up at a petrol station that has been there a very long time, and have a coffee behind doors straight out of a western.
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Todo lo demás de la carpeta, en el orden en que se tomó.
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